We've been residents of Golspie for a week. So far, the place and its environs have more than lived up to any expectations we may have had, and the locals seem friendly - it's not in many small towns that most of the passers-by in the street wish one the time of day and often seem very happy to engage in conversation.
With only an hour or so available for our daily walk we climbed into the forestry on the flanks of Ben Bhraggie where....
....we had our first glimpse of some serious wildlife, a small deer, possibly a roe deer, feeding in the bracken, while....
....on the way down we passed the corner of a field which teemed with rabbits.
I brought three bird feeders with me and they were installed in our small back garden as soon as we arrived but no small bird has shown any serious interest - which isn't surprising as our neighbour two doors away has a feast available for them. However, today there was a sudden change, with the first visitor a coal tit followed....
....by a blue tit on one of my patented home-made peanut feeders.
Their enterprise was watched with interest by two cock sparrows who had been unable to work out how to access my latest bird table design, but one of them, after watching the blue tit, managed....
....to get on to the peanut feeder and, shortly afterwards, hopped on to the table.
As if this wasn't enough, as dusk approached a dunnock, which had been on the ground cleaning up the seed which the others had spilt, also managed to get on to the new table.
Feeding the small birds this winter is going to punch huge holes in Gill's housekeeping budget but the idea that, after having so few birds come into our Suffolk garden, we at last have a variety to watch, thrills me.
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