A walk along the bridleway involved negotiating some serious mud and huge puddles, but I was rewarded with a slow fly-by from a red kite, who was evidently inspecting me quite closely, plus a lapwing in the flooded field. I'd seen a big flock of finches and buntings a couple of days earlier when out for a run, but they were no longer in evidence. The nature-friendly farmer puts bird seed down to tide the farmland birds through the winter, and it's great to see so many thriving here as a result.
A little further down the bridleway is 'rabbit alley', and then on an open area of grassland I watched a fox making it's way slowly across the field, looking for a meal I guess. Was hoping to see it do the pouncing move but no luck!
We then progressed from one storm to another - every week it was high winds and rain...
And it didn't stop with Ciara and Dennis, it just carried on. So a very wet and windy February comes to an end with Storm Jorge. Here's to a better March!
