Birds on a Wire

This morning I looked out of my bedroom window and saw hundreds of birds sitting on the telephone cable that stretches across the farm fields. They looked like Starlings, but do Starlings migrate?

The garden is looking grateful for the little rain that we have had. It has been such a dry September and October. I saw such a wonderful sight of the Sparrows taking a bath in the rain water that had fallen on the debris cover of the Splash Pool in front of the deck. The Sparrows would fly in, have a quick splash in the water and then dash back to the cover of the hedge only to repeat the whole performance again and again. It was truly delightful just to watch them darting in for a quick flutter in the water and so comical too!

The leaves on the trees are turning such wonderful reds and yellows and surprisingly are not falling as quickly as expected. The colours are so spectacular and cheer the early misty mornings.