First Daffodils.

29/11/09.

Walked to Carn Barges and back to the cove, four Moorhen, three Mallard two male one female and two Teal. Grey and Pied Wagtails, Robins, Wrens, Rock Pippits and Dunnock feeding along the shoreline.

30/11/09.

Goldfinches feeding on Evening Primrose seeds, also later in the week.

2/12/09.

Walked back from Sheffield this morning, a Buzzard on a fence post, one Curlew and several small flocks of Starlings. In the twenty five years I have lived here I have never seen so much water lying in the fields and running out of the hedges onto the roads.

4/12/09.

A flock of duck overhead on the way to Carn Barges c24 mixed Teal and Mallard.

5/12/09.

Driving along Wharfside this morning a Gt Northern Diver in the harbour, first I,ve seen this winter.

6/12/09.

Winter Heliotrope coming into flower, also known in Cornwall as Coltsfoot, this is not the Coltsfoot that country people used to use as a tobacco, that plant has yellow flowers in the spring which come before the leaves.
Talking of the spring there are already signs that it is on the wayI was looking the other day at a Purple Filbert tree, this is a member of the Hazel family and the catkins and the female flowers were there to see allthough still dormant I will try to get some pictures of it when it flowers as the catkins are bright pink and it is quite a sight when in full flower.
With the recent bad weather it has been interesting to see the way that birds will adapt to it, on the roundabout by Morrisons garage Black Headed Gulls and Oystercatchers were happily feeding in the worst of the weather ,it may have been reshaped and manicured but the attitude seemed to be it,s our field and always will be.
I,ve given this a title and have,nt mentioned the reason ,the first Daffodil in our garden is in flower I do have a photograph of it which hopefully will appear in due course.
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