Now it's lighter in the morning, we've resumed our daily walk to our field to do bramble cutting etc. - a bit of exercise to counteract the winter flab and too much sitting at the computer desk!
Today, when I'd done my stint, I walked back to the house across this field, though the uncultivated sloping corner behind the bit you can see here. I startled a flock of skylarks. We tend to think of them as more or less solitary birds, but in the winter, they flock together, and as they don't sing till about now, I guess they often get overlooked as anonymous brown birds. Anyway, I was pleased that there were at least 6 living here: they erupted into the air trilling and twittering, with their characteristically erratic flight.
Later on, two were high in the sky singing - glorious!
19/02/08 @ 14:54