Apologies that the blog “Christmas Lights” which I wrote yesterday I forgot to publish yesterday so it has only just been published. So today’s blog or is this the second blog of the day will be a brief one!

It has been a job day including gathering up leaves from our front garden so the back feels it now! This afternoon was a social bird watch looking over to the River Severn-kept bumping into friends so there was more talking than birding! Funniest moment was my friend Gordon and I got very excited because in the far distance we spotted not one but three Green-winged Teal a bird that only rarely appears in Gloucestershire. We got very excited until we got suspicious that the birds looked like they had bright breeding colours in December and were not moving! sadly they were decoy ducks because sadly we have a lot of shooting of wild fowl in this area.