After a week of ice, snow and sleet there were signs that we may be heading to a warm spell, the wind still has an edge but there seemed to be a lot of activity in the natural world.
Squirrels were digging up their hoards of nuts buried in the Autumn and now easier to dig up as the frozen ground begins to thaw.
Kingfisher waits in the Winter Sunshine for a fish to pass by in the water below.
The Kingfisher has returned to the now unfrozen stream to catch fish that had been protected by the ice that had covered the water below.
Moorhen in the reeds
The moorhens now patrol the reedbeds, their yellow and red bill brightens up the gloom of the reeds at it catches the sun.
Song thrush washes itself in the stream
And birds like the Song thrush takes advantage of the water to have a bath in the stream.
If anything it proves how much the wildlife depends on water as we do for life and as the sun shines dare we start to think of Spring?
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