Spring is just around the corner!

Today, with help from my Grandson, Tom - I feel quite pleased with the days work! Tom follows in his Fathers footsteps and is a great help when engines don't start, and he is able to resolve the problems! This is a common fault with most machinery in the Spring of course because  they haven't been started for a few months. Although I had charged the batteries on the 2 ride on mowers, the engines wouldn't start for me. However, eventually , with the aid of replacement fuses, improving the connectors on some wiring, the use of some heavy duty jump leads, and a gentle tap here and there, away we went - and I was cutting grass this afternoon! Plenty wet enough really  -  but it felt good to be able to make a start on the grass.

It was a treat to have a nice, dry day. I did go out with the camera this morning, and took some quite interesting photos.  I am surprised at the clarity and quality of shots taken from quite a distance away.
Arthur and his Suffolk prize rams were approximately 4 to 500 yards away.

 

This is the greater spotted woodpecker that I am trying to get a good photo of. When I saw it this morning I wasn't sure if it was a branch or a bird. It was about 150 yards away, I guess!  It is marvellous what a difference it makes looking through a 500mm lens on the camera - and the branch turned out to be a Woodpecker!  I will of course get a good photo soon. One where it is posing up close for me!

This sparrow was quite obliging and I thought took a good photo!

 

 

Tomorrow - perhaps another bonfire, if the wind is not blowing my neighbours way!