This isn’t the song, rather a welcome winter experience. Oké, but first the song then, to get you in the mood: The cold and snow brings one’s garden to life. The signs are all around you, and if your variety isn’t big enough at home...head for the woods or open farm fields or parks, or along streams. You can finds signs almost anywhere, in the city or out in the country. You can buy books I believe or you can try and look up what you have seen on the internet. Hey though, you don’t even HAVE to know what you are seeing. It is also fun to leave it a mystery and imagine. I do like to know though, so I try and find out if I am stumped by what I see. I like to know what’s in my lottie and across the whole complex. I shall post some of what I have found with the suspected identification. So to begin with, I have one of the most common ones, the coot: Then the cousin, the moorhen: There were a couple of moorhen tracks in the first foto as well. Here we have a shot with all manner of footprints, mammal and avian: The tiny robin also has also been creeping. The blackbird has been looking for food as well. It isn’t all airborne guests here. I always get excited when I see these: ...and a closer look. It is a hermine. Brer Rat is also present. I am suspecting a rodent here, but not sure...something in a great hurry to cross the sidewalk. Then there is this hopper. I don’ t know what this could be. No trip to the lottie would be complete without my old pal, the vole: Well, there were many more, but I think that I have shown enough. Hopefully you will make a little snoop- around where you live and discover the presence of some of the beasts that you share the land with. I tried to include some known and unknown prints. If you recognise any of them let me know. Happy hunting. One final one:
