Crepuscular ..

Day 180 #365DaysWild

Another pre-breakfast crepuscular walk. I now sport a woolly hat with integral LED head torch that can be recharged using a USB cable. Good old Santa.

Tawny hoo-hoo calling. And the confiding barn owl again, hedge hopping in front of me, scouring the field margins and sodden fields. Hope it got its mousey equivalent of a nice warm bowl of porridge before retiring to a dry nest box to avoid the incoming drizzle. A barn owls weight can increase by 27% during rain.

Venus hanging there, bright through the skeletal oak. A fat moon. The wind sings through a tubular aluminium gate.

Buzzards mew. Crows caw.

Storm Gerrit has passed. Power cuts in Manchester. Snow causing serious road closures and disruption in Scotland.

Heavy overnight rains here and a ‘power outage’ around midnight. Fortunately we’ve been able to instal battery storage and this saved any cuts in supply to mum in the annex.

The costs of climate crisis in travel disruption and power cuts may force the electorate and our politicians to take this issue more seriously than the failed world leaders’ meeting called COP 28 held in the heart of oil-producing United Arab Emirates before Christmas.