Paul's Blog - All comments and views are my own,

The first day I have ventured out since Monday, this man-flu thing just got the better of me. Today felt like a perfect Autumn morning, cool windless and sunny. There wasn't a great deal happening on the lake, about 20 Tufted and seven Pochard and one Gadwall. However the light was great and the autumn fruits are starting to shine through, there's quite a lot of mature Rosa rugosa around the area a stuuningly pretty and prickly variety of the native Dog rose, Rosa canina. looking south east across the lake Rosa rugosa fruit (hip) There was a very confiding Grey Heron at the Pwll end of the lake, the light was a bit too harsh for my camera to cope with this morning but you get the idea.             

I'm limited to what I can do at the moment due to dose of "man flu", but I'm solidering on, In our garden in Cirencester a bird feeder of sunflower seeds would last maybe two days, here in windy SW Wales the same feeder has lasted 27 days. After catching a herring Gull by accident I've decided to make a more specific trap, this time a "drop trap" it will need some refining but well, I'll let you know if I have any success. 2m x 2m square of netting Needs to have some weight at the dropping end, rear base hinged with "U" pegs