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Snow Brings…

Sunset Burntisland

Camera Phone Sunset Punctuated By Greyhound Lunging At Snow Sniffs

I settled in my new reading den, nestled under a woollen patchwork blanket that may have seen better days, but still keeps the winter chills out as much as it did when Grandma first knitted each square from yarn oddments and sewed them together.

The new reading den was claimed from the back of the the living room by moving the small sofa right back to the window in-between bookcases and musicases (thus removing a prime place for the random dumping of clutter!). From this seat unravels a perfect view of The Binn and also the garden and the bird feeders.

Today the snow is decorated with the twirling footprints of Robin, Coal Tit,
Blackbird, House and Tree Sparrow, Blue Tit, Crow, Collared Dove,
Great Tit, Mistle Thrush, Starling, Jackdaw and most noteable -
Fieldfare and Redwing. Overhead the giant Black Backed Gulls soar, a
collection of Curlew and Oystercatcher zoom past and a glorious V of
Geese shapeshift over the hill. The Prey Birds have not shown themselves yet, but they are there, or thereabouts....

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On the stairway up to the High Field, something was not quick enough, and Fox slunk, sleekit back into the gorse, unseen - only detected by the red story told in the snow.

Moosie Lane (the path along the farthest edge of the High Field) gives up more secrets as a Moosie darts out of the snow and crosses the path, just in front of the Greyhound's nose.

It is an almost daily ritual, this frantic fleeing rodent, but today the snow displays the cleverness of Mouse - Mouse does not run across the top of snow, instead Mouse creates tunnels under the snow and only appears where the Humans and Canines have packed the snow tight underfoot.

Does Kestrel know of this trick?