KANGAROO GREAT TIT

Perhaps I'm alone in never having seen our garden birds acting like Kangaroos, using their tails as a third leg, but this was a new one for me today; it was putting real pressure on those tail feathers. 

The Nuthatch was acting strangely too on its tippee toes:

I love its feathers in this one:

Blue Tits behaving normally:

Sparrows too:

At last, leaves are beginning to emerge on the trees and in the hedge. This is the lovely red Acer that we inherited here:

Alder:

Blackthorn:

Hornbeam:

Willow:

Guelder Rose:

The sunrises have been more spectacular than the sunsets over the last few days:

Yesterday we went looking for Newts in remote pools out on the moor. This one was about to be eaten by Jack so we were faced with a split second decision: save it and break the law, or let it die in the jaws of a terrier. We saved it and it swam off safely.

We also found this Water Scorpion - not a great picture I'm afraid.

A short one today. It's been a very difficult day. I won't go into why at the moment. I've written this paragraph three times and deleted it. I'm not in the right frame of mind. So, until next time, have a lovely weekend and here are a couple of pics of Snippet and Jack. they can always cheer me up.....well unless they're digging up the garden, barking the place down or escaping from the garden....hmmmm.