The air temperature is 5C but it feels much colder outdoors as the persistent east-southeastly wind is still blowing - and promises to wind itself up to gale force again through tomorrow.
Walking through the pine plantations near the house it's noticeable that an unusually large number of branches are down, perhaps because the trees on the eastern side of the forestry aren't accustomed to this sort of prolonged battering.
There are, however, more signs that we're beginning to crawl out of the coldest part of the year. The sunrises are now much earlier - this was the view across the Firth at ten past nine this morning with the sun well up - and today I found....
....the first of the daffodils poking through the leaf litter.
It would be nice to think that these pink-footed geese passing over us each morning are migrating north but they aren't, as they come south again each evening to their roosts around Loch Fleet.
The squirrels along Squirrel Alley are doing fine, thanks to the generosity of the householders on the other side of the fence. These are being fed by humans, but it was good the other day to see that the squirrel which harvested and buried cob nuts along the verges of our road in the autumn is coming back to find them - even though our neighbours have been putting out plenty for it to eat.
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