It's been a while...

I was going to blog about the last of the butterflies and dragonflies enjoying the autumnal sunshine but then I saw something I hadn't spotted for about two years - a kingfisher. No photograph I'm afraid - it didn't hang around to have it's picture taken. I saw it on the stream and was wondering whether it had been checking out the moat for sticklebacks as I hadn't seen any sticklebacks since the drought reduced water levels so much. Hey presto I went over to the moat and found sticklebacks. I fished out three in the space of a minute or so so I think there are a reasonable number in there.