Misty Morning

Following the mild spell, today is misty and murky, we can hardly see across the fields and it gets worse as we walk around our favourite route.  The pigeons sit at the tops of the trees, still and ghost-like, and we can't even see the power lines where the linnet flock normally congregate.  Big groups of chaffinches feed from tree to tree, and a large number of yellowhammers.  On the heath, at the top of Lankester Hill, we stop and watch a lovely flock of goldfinches feeding on the seed heads of knapweed.  Eventually they fly up into a tree, then chase off a kestrel!