Colours

Judging by the colours in some of the trees, we might be in Canada for their 'fall', these wonderful colours being reflected in....

....the same painted lady who, along with her lone companion peacock, was once again enjoying our verbena. Nor were our flowers short of....

....other flying insects, including bees, hover flies, and day-flying moths, this small bumblebee enjoying one of three lavender bushes we've planted.

Every day, high above us, a thousand or more noisy pink-footed geese move back and forth from Loch Fleet to the fields they've selected to feed on that day. At a lower level, we've had....

....buzzards and red kites, this buzzard wheeling hopefully this morning above the field which contains the most rabbits.

While there's a robin every hundred metres or so, each vocally guarding its territory, there are otherwise hardly any garden birds. We are told by a neighbour who, like us, spends money of bird food, that this is a cheap time of year, that, once winter comes in with a bite, the birds will be back again.