As we are still in lockdown and can only exercise locally Jan decided to brave the local swamp, (sorry, we mean wood), its hard to believe that in just a few weeks this will all change and the primroses and bluebells will be in their full glory.

Unfortunately at the moment it is so muddy she nearly lost her wellies a couple of times, but still managed to stay on her feet. It was all worth it to spot a pair of Goldcrests and and a pair of Tree Creepers searching for food.

This is one of the pair of Goldcrests that were flitting around the trees with a group of Blue Tits

A Tree Creeper also known as a Tree Mouse because of the way it climbs up the tree

Tree Creepers always climb up the tree and never down. When they get to the top they fly to bottom of the next tree and start again.

On returning from the walk, Jan caught this female Blackbird in the garden . . . Not many berries left now.