I had a great ten minutes down on the old heath this afternoon. Hobby, buzzard, kestrel, raven, several swallows and house martins, a green woodpecker and great-spotted woodpecker and a flock of goldfinches all passed over, and a wasp-spider hid in the heather. On the way back, I saw my first group of fly- agaric under the birches past the hide, so with the squirrels bouncing over the ground and the bracken turning orange, there was definitely a touch of autumn in the air.
Image credit; Mark Brandon