Foxes, primroses and woodpeckers

A noisy night last night, foxes were calling back and forth to each other in the early hours of the morning.

This is unusual for this time of year as it normally happens late January, during February or early March.

Primroses are still blooming in the garden as they have all year and I notice the early arrival of fresh green cowslip leaf rosettes in the front garden.

We continue to be visited many birds including all three woodpeckers, whose name is so apt, as when I go near the woodpile I see evidence of their visits in the holes pecked in the piled wood. The green woodpecker can be spotted clinging onto the sides of trees but more often (daily) on the lawn where he/she is busily pecking and poking into the grassy sward for ants and other goodies.