Wandering the patch in 2025

Chilly out! 

We've had a mostly good start to this year, freezing but gorgeous weather well, this last week anyway and I've been trying to get out for a wander every day that I don't go walking elsewhere but, if I don't get out early, the sun is off to Australia before I can get a few good shots. 

So January 2nd was my first drift down to the old Oak feeding post.

I've now got two feeding posts, this one is at the first lane junction and I only ever drop my seed / suet mix here but the Coal Tits and a couple of Robins are on it before I can move away, which is nice. 

The old Oak is only a couple of hundred yards further on and I now leave the same mix there but also add a Red Squirrel mix, I'm kind of hoping to draw the attention of the local Jays too  ..... one day.

I've found the Great Tits up here are the most wary of all those that drop by, they sit up in the branches watching everything, usually until I wander back a bit.

The Coal Tits are in like a shot, I have tried to get them to hand feed but not yet.

My absolute star of this new area, is the Red Squirrel! I've now watched it eating, foraging, bounding around the surrounding area and falling from a tree but, this set of it eating and catching the evening sunlight!!!!  

I'll leave these here for now, I have a few more to edit but, I just loved this lot. 

Absolutely gorgeous, if it wasn't freezing I'd be up there all day

 for now