Nature Diary Rocks History Gallery Links Home Page   FIVE MAGPIES, proverbially for silver, have gathered by the cricket pitch. A couple of Black-headed Gulls fly down the valley as if casually browsing while one Kestrel flies across the the canal with a more powerful urgent flight, followed by a second.
It's barely two o'clock but it's so dull today that it feels like late afternoon. But at least in a month from now the days will be getting longer again. A yellow lichen on a concrete post provides a welcome accent of colour.
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Where thorn bushes line the canal banks at least two hundred Fieldfares and Redwings wheel about.
I don't think it's just the bare branches that make them more visible; there do seem to be more Great Tits around at this time of year.