Two snow walks

A walk through Charlcombe Vale. Found two frozen owl pellets in the the hollow of an old tree stump. Took one home. Two rodent skulls and various other bones and claws inside. The stump is a lone high point in an ungrazed field and I would imagine on future visits there will be others to find. Further on a small old maple tree covered in lichen overhangs a watering trough. It still hangs onto some of last years helicopter pods. Near the church a sulky buzzard skulked in a tree, unimpressed by the day.



The following day a walk into Doynton civil parish past the four farms: Toghill House, Babwell, Boyd and Woodlands. Followed an old overgrown by-way, made two aborted attempts to climb a tree, saw a tree creeper vertically circling an Ash trunk, then saw a wren doing the same thing in a more erratic manner, both I like to imagine know the tree well and during their search for food map out holes and nooks for roosting.

5. The White Diamond - Werner Herzog