Although the weather is still 'funny' for this time of the year at least it is a bit warmer and sunnier than it has been all summer. Something that other species seem also to have noticed. A small walk on the coast showed a bit more animal action than I have seen recently. There were quite a number of rabbits munching around not bothered too much by all the human tourists or locals, a considered number of small crickets on leaves and of course plenty of local birds. Even in our garden there seems to be quite a population of insects as well, mostly white buterflies, bubblebees and of course spiders who are extremely busy and they go back to work straight after the outside windows have been cleaned. It is amazing how fast they can spin and how deliquate their work is.

From the bird point of view we still missing all the small ones, particularly the finches (even the noise one) and blue teats. They have simply disappeared.
The ones that they keep coming are the blackbirds, the magpies, woodpigeons, a pair of jays and the occasional jackdaw (they seem to be all over the town but they have stopped coming to our garden in big numbers, something which we should thank the bad weather for). It is really strange that all the small birds have disappeared but I'm hoping that if the weather stays dry for a few days at least (yeah right...) then it is quite likely that they will appear again. I sincerely hope so as I have missed my noisy finch!


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