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ROAD TRAVEL; white lines are a guide, double yellow a warning.But today we're walking; double white lines are the wing-bars of Chaffinches, single yellow Goldfinch.
Most of the trees in the wood have now lost their leaves. Bare branches open up lost views.
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Yellowhammers add more colour. Fieldfare, Blackbirds and, mostly, Redwings join the flocks of finches and tits in the hedgerows.
For a few minutes in the sky above the wood there's a map of Britain picked out in dove-grey cloud. Yes there's Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, the Wash, the Humber and Kent. There's even Denmark and the Netherlands over to the right. Seeing such a distinctive pattern it is easy to see that the cloud is changing shape by the second . . . the Thames Estuary soon disappears.
It's warm again today. I'm surprised to see two kinds of Hoverfly visiting the garden flowers.