Winters here

Lately i have been extremely busy setting up a Graphic Design company with 2 other designers, based in Wigan. With a recent trip down to London to discuss the future and direction of the company and to meet with a client, plus the branding and pricing of our company i have had very little time in which to visit Belvedere.

Today however, i made time to forget the business for an hour or two, and to refresh with a walk over the fields. The weather was perfect, a typical crisp winter afternoon, washed out blue sky, long shadows cast by the seting sun and just a hint of mist.

With the sun setting in the west my walk was anti clockwise around the fields so that i wasnt staring into the sun. The Redwings are as perky as ever, moving from berry bush to berry bush, occasionally starting a squabble with the Blackbirds. Still not a sighting of Fieldfare at the moment.

A lot of the smaller birds are now easier to see with the majority of foliage now lying on the floor in  piles of browns and orange. Wrens are very lively at the moment looking for food wherever they can. Another new species of bird was seen today, a Willow Tit was feeding upside down along with a few Great Tits further up the branches.

On my way home, just past the bridge at point 1 no less than 3 Roe Deer began to run away from me. They were not very far from the road and only about 20feet from where i saw them last. This is getting quite regular, i am going to take my video camera with me in future to hopefully film them.

To coincide with the arrival of the Redwings i decided to create a vector illustration of a redwing, it was finally finished a few days ago after many hours of work.