September Woods

[puddleshark]

5 degrees C at sunrise this morning, and a robin woke me up, singing his autumn song outside the window. Not so many days ago we were having overnight temperatures of 20C... Autumn, it seems, does not intend to coddle us.

But the woods are still green, and the bracken has only just started to turn bronze.









Coal-tits, blue-tits, long-tailed tits, chiffchaffs busy in the branches. A kingfisher glimpsed by the Tea Brown Lake.

I came back across the heath, hoping to see Marsh Gentians. Found a few, but they were not quite in flower. I need to come back next weekend.

But after the recent rain the dwarf gorse has burst into full flower, and the heath's quite cheerful.




The Sika does still with their summer dapples.


And overhead, half a moon.