It’s been a strange winter – or,perhaps I should say, a strange pseudo-spring. In the lanes around my Somerset domestic, and snowdrops have been in full bloom since the middle of January,while a chorus of birds continues to sing in my garden.
One Sunday morning we even had a visit from a smart male blackcap a species that now spends the winter in the warmer setting of nearby Bristol, but normally shuns our chilly rural garden. This is our first wintering blackcap for nearly a decade, or yet another sign that this winter is so much milder than normal.
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Source: theguardian.com