Woken at seven this morning by four Magpies doing a clog dance on the deck.  Last week, I had one sitting on the bedroom windowsill pecking at the glass.

Came down to the kitchen this morning in time to see a squadron of sparrows flying away from the feeders ('fruity nibbles' still proving to be popular)

Then in the next 5 minutes there were 3 blue tits, 1 great tit, 2 robins, 1 (female) blackbird, 1 Dunnock, 1 wren and a mouse visited the deck.

Fog

Ringinglow encased by fog this morning.  Dark shapes appearing out of nowhere.  Is it a person?  No, a tree.  Or maybe a sheep.

Jet black crows launch themselves off fence posts and disappear through the white curtain of cloud.

Clouds

Pale blue skies, torn with whisps of cirrus leaking through, hang like the inside of a painted dome, over my cycle to work this morning.

Meanwhile, thin cloud drapes the northern edges of the Hope Valley, the top of Win Hill just rising out of the white curtain.

The top lake at Redmires has been reduced to a pond, nestling in the shadow of the dam wall. The ducks and geese have gone, presumabably moved down to the middle reservoir.

Millstone

Millstone Edge was bathed in a red light this evening as I drove home and the bays and buttresses were a mottled pattern of pink and grey-green. A solitary Kestral hovered over the moor towards Higgar Tor and another above Callow Bank, which seems to be a favoured hunting ground.

Fog

Dew laden webs on the deck this morning herald the arrival of autumn and remind me of walking to school with my Mum, when I was 5 or 6, twirling the webs which hung from the trees and hedges onto a stick.

Ringinglow is engulfed in fog this morning and had I got close enough to them, I'm sure that the sheep would have smelled of wet wool.

Bleached

The tail of hurricane Katia was still whipping the long grasses this morning

The morning light was harsh and bleached the landscape like an over-exposed photograph.

Just heard about a new supernova in the Pinwheel galaxy at the tail end of the big dipper. It's reported to be star the size of the earth which exploded 21 million years ago (that means it's 21 million light years from earth.) I guess it'll be a while longer before we hear the bang. Only joking - that's only on Star Trek.