Ill health has kept me indoors today and I am not exactly in the partying mood.
The first day of the year always seems to bring out the irrational side of my nature. I am already anticipating the days of Spring even though experience tells me that the winter has yet to really begin. This has been such an unusual autumn that spring also cannot avoid following a different course to the norm. Some shrubs are already bearing flowers which normally would lie dormant in their buds for at least another three months. It is inevitable that they will succomb to the frost to follow and that will mean that autumn next year will be bereft of many of the berries normally seen.
I do not believe in making resolutions, but I did yesterday purchase a hole cutter with the purpose of making birch log nest boxes to install in Wedge Wood. I look forward to being able to inspect these to see what species have been attracted.
I am sure the new year will bring lots of surprises in the natural world as has every year previous.
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