There was nothing to report on the bird front yesterday, as I forgot my normal glasses, and only had my strong reading ones. There could have been pterodactyls drifitng around, for all I could see. There was a very satisfying line-up of 10 sparrows on the wall and gate when I got home though. They were queuing up for the bird feeder I'd only hung up the evening before. Word spreads fast. Do they use Twitter?
There was also a couple of kites arriving on the other side of the M4 when I took Benjy for a walk, about 5.45pm. They made a very impressive low swoop across a field full of pigeons, who looked decidedly uneasy about the new arrivals. The kites perched on two fence posts and surveyed the field imperiously for quarter of an hour, before coaxing themselves gently into the air, and back across the M4 towards Furze Hill and beyond.
So on to today. White to light-grey pom-pom clouds are drifting from far-left to near-right this morning, which I reckon makes it roughly a WNW wind. Quite a brisk one too, but the backdrop of sky is a really vivid blue No sign of anything interesting yet - a couple of pigeons and a crow or two in the distance. The cobweb on window 3 (of 4, counted from the left) is getting rather scrappy. I think the spider must have given up on it and moved on. Or died.
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