11th November

In Remembrance.

One of many

This is my father's elder brother, who died in Singapore aged 21.

Forgot to say yesterday . . .

. . now that most of the leaves have fallen (and it's a good fine day) we've started hedging.

Return of the hawk

A couple of pictures of the Harris Hawk you may have seen over Strickley this morning.

Dairy Shorthorn Bull For Sale

including Strickley Zonda
(click)

More birdwatching

This is becoming a frequent visitor to the feeders in the garden, but I'm usually too slow getting the camera out. Snapped it this time - but only the once, then the battery ran out.

Hawk Eye

Did you see a different bird swooping over Strickley this morning? Not one that comes to our bird table, but a Harris Hawk. His handler (is that the right word?) said he was only interested in rabbits, so was surprised and pleased when he got a carrion crow.

I saw a strange car pull up outside the house, and wondering who it was peered out the window, and got quite a shock when the driver got out, rummaged in the back and stood up with a large bird of prey on his arm. (He had already seen Henry down the yard)

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It's a new month and I've been looking back at last months weather. I've been using the same software for several years, but keep finding new reports and features (maybe they really are new, or maybe I've just not delved deeply enough before). This picture is a screen shot of "Local Climatological Data". There are some empty columns (either we don't track, or have no previous records), and I'm not absolutely what some of it means - but it's here for those of you who like numbers.