After being virtually unseen and unheard throughout the summer, the Robins have now finished breeding and moulting, and have begun to reappear. Suddenly I’m hearing them everywhere I go, and as I walked up Mill Lane in Stratford this afternoon, this one flew across in front of me and settled rather obligingly on top of a garden fence.
In other news, the first Christmas decorations of 2025 have gone on sale in town. You’d almost think the two events were connected in some way.
