We chose this morning to do the bird count in our garden – not a great choice with strong cold winds. We were delighted to have at least 14 long-tailed tits (there were probably more but we could only confirm 14. Lovely charismatic birds. Sadly for one of them the sparrowhawk (male) came swooping in and took a bird. I watched the whole thing and sparrowhawks are amazingly agile flying deftly round any obstacles like trees, bushes and buildings. That of course meant all birds disappeared for a while! Picture below of a previous visit has been in the blog before.

Yesterday’s football was depressing two teams devoid of confidence playing a scrappy game-sadly the only moment of quality game from the opposition! seriously worried now!