The big question is where are they? This is the first Autumn when I have not yet seen either a Redwing or a Fieldfare. Instead, in a local bog, I encountered 5 Jack Snipe that had just arrived from Finland for our Winter! Is it all down to Global warming?
What better picture could there be to summarise the Summer of 2025 than a Fox sunbathing on top of a bale of hay?
The sun was just setting when I drove past the field and I could not resist a few photos of this lazy Fox. Harder times are just around the corner!
This weeks photo typifies our last summer – one of fields full of thistles and Goldfinches. More than
one hundred Goldfinches are in the photo devouring the seeds of thistles.
At the end of this year it will be fifty years since the long hot summer of 1976. It was a year that I will never forget having caught and ringed more than a thousand Greenfinches within one mile of my home in Castleton- How times have changed!
If you are wondering where all the Jays have gone from your garden then you only need to walk to the nearest Oak wood. Following the recent high winds the ground is now covered in the largest fall of Acorns I have ever seen. It may be some time before you see a Jay in your garden again.
www.facebook.com/gordonyateswildlife