Well it ought to be a winter larder, you know all that food saved and put by for the hard times ahead when the cold weather finally does arrive but the blackbirds are already feeding furiously on the haws.
This hawthorn bush is opposite the back gate and it is absolutely laden with fruit, branches bending down and with the weight of the fruit and the rain gathering on the leaves it's a surprise that it doesn't break. The bush hanging over the back gate is no different in fact it's true to say that all of the fruit and berry bearing bushes and trees are supporting a massive crop this autumn.
Perhaps it really is the portent of a proper winter.
Perhaps we will get some waxwings
ReplyDeleteThe first two winters we here, 10/11 and 11/12 we saw them in the orchards and another big red bird. I can't remember its name but it was bloody freezing. The max/min thermometer registered -16 the first winter and -14 the second. Will we be in for one this winter? There won't be much pike fishing if we are. John
ReplyDeleteBet there will be the Outwell willie again if so.
ReplyDeletedamn right!
ReplyDeleteCrikey, never seen a bough so laden - we have to be on for a hard one, I really do miss a bit of sharp weather. We had a brief Waxwing visit last year, my bins just picked them out........looking forward to pike though, I have got a bit armchair obsessed with them of late! TTFN Dickie
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