A more mixed weekend, but still some sunshine. [Click on the pics for slightly bigger versions]
Woodland
A trip back to Wentwood, this time with some seed to try and tempt down the chaffinch flock, reputed to include a few bramblings. Couldn't tempt them down to the ground, and saw only chaffinches in the trees. The robin was happy enough though, finding some seed on the old picnic table. 
Wild crab apple
Hedgerow
Clematis vitalba (Old Man's Beard, Traveller's Joy)
White Bryony
Blackthorn sloes
Greenfinch with bramble stained beak
Farmland
For some reason one of the commonest 'farmland' birds we see down on the fields locally is the buzzard. On Sunday there were 5 in one freshly tilled field, no doubt after worms, but this is well short of the winter record of 12 in a single field!
Buzzard digging for worms
Herons (another common bird on our fields)
[Dear Santa I need a book on names of fungi!]
Not sure what this is, but the head and wings had a fabulous gold sheen.
[Dear Santa I need a bug and fly book.]
And to finish another Red Admiral (again there were several around)
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