Spring comes late in the Cambrian Mountains and the hawthorn in the lane has yet to show much sign of it. Nevertheless, sitting outside this morning, writing this, there\u2019s a spring-like feel to the air that I’ve only really noticed in the last week.<\/p>\n
A pair of ravens have been nesting down by the stream for the past couple of weeks, apparently turfing out some crows that had been starting to build there. This morning, I watched a grey squirrel in a territorial dispute with a woodpecker, eventually chasing him from the dead tree, so it looks like the squirrel is also rearing young.<\/p>\n
The rooks are nesting on the green. I was told they used to nest there every year until the day someone took a 12-bore to one of them, at which point they scattered everywhere before settling in another tree across the main road. For a couple of hours they stayed there, making an enormous noise and giving an uncanny impression they were holding a meeting. A little while later they left for the churchyard, never to return to the green.\u00a0That was many years ago and they seem to be back now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Spring comes late in the Cambrian Mountains and the hawthorn in the lane has yet to show much sign of it. Nevertheless, sitting outside this morning, writing this, there\u2019s a spring-like feel to the air that I’ve only really noticed in the last week. A pair of ravens have been nesting down by the stream… Continue reading Lengthening days<\/span>