Hiding....

    .....and peering nervously round our legs....

            ....and with very good reason....

    ....there was a flock of around 25, all of them were bigger than the dog, and they were not prepared to share the bread.
     We took a walk around Hatherton Reservoir, viewed a very sweet little cottage, and then had afternoon tea in the car - cheese sandwiches, cream cake and a cuppa tea.
      I've noticed lots of geese flying over the house lately.  I'm not sure if they are starting to migrate yet or not, but there was plenty of them on the canal today.  I also spotted a green woodpecker in a tree at the back of the house a couple of days ago, I'm hoping to see him in the garden one day.
    The field-fares are starting to arrive and we have lots of blackbirds too.  So pretty soon there will be no berries left on our Rowan trees.   As it gets darker earlier each night the temperature drops rapidly, the first frosts can't be too far away now, and I've got 2 panes of glass broken in my greenhouse, so I've nowhere to store my delicate plants.  Darsh has promised to put some cardboard over the holes, caused by an enormous pear falling off the tree.  Cardboard should work well, after all it never rains here over winter...