I walked this morning up one of the estate tracks until I was above the planted forestry and onto the open moorland on a morning with....
....the puddles in the vehicle tracks frozen solid after another night's hard frost.
I was hoping for more signs of spring but, despite the warm sunshine during the day, there was little to see beyond the....
....tracks which show that there are still some deer around, deer which are very determined not to be seen.
If spring refuses to perform I have little choice but to continue to enjoy the animals and birds that have been with us all winter, like....
....the red squirrels which have benefitted so much from the food put out for them and....
....the chaffinches which are doing fine on the strength of the peanuts and seed we've been feeding them...,
....and the dunnocks which, while usually the most retiring of birds, are surprisingly noisy at this time of year.
Not all are doing so well. This is, I think, a siskin, which almost made it through to spring, and then there are the....
....pink-footed geese which are being constantly disturbed by the fighter jets which are practising their killing skills out of the nearby Lossiemouth base.
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