It has been both much wetter and much colder here the last few days, with over 20mm of rainfall in one day and overnight temperatures down to 6C, so, very reluctantly, we've turned the central heating on. Out in the countryside the barley harvest is largely in, while a rapidly increasing number of trees have leaves which are turning; and with those changes, like a changing of the guard, we have creatures arriving for the winter, like....
....the greylag and pink-footed geese, and those who are either....
....staying to survive, die or hibernate, like the dragon- and damselflies, or....
....leaving to spend the northern winter months in the balmy climes of countries nearer the equator. So a few sandwich terns....
....swallows and house martins are still here preparing themselves for their long flights to Africa, as are....
....the pied wagtails, who may choose to hang around for the winter rather than move to southern Britain, while their cousins....
....the grey wagtails, who have spent the summer bringing up their young on the stretch of the Golspie burn above and below the footbridge, are long gone, some travelling as far as North Africa to escape the cold.
If I had the choice, I'd already be on the wing southwards.
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