Frost report

Following the last report of frost from last winter at reference 2, and the first report of frost for the coming winter at reference 1, at 07:30 this (Friday) morning I can report a proper frost.

Serious frost on the outer two thirds of our back extension roof and on what I can see of the garage roof from the study window. Less serious frost on the more open part of the back lawn, counter intuitively the part nearest the house.

Working from house back, that is to say to the west: bird feeder quite busy, with the cold having brought the small birds out. Leaves more or less down from the left hand nut tree. Leaves fairly down from the middle oak tree, the one over the small ponds. Leaves more or less down from the ash tree back left, seeds still hanging in. Leaves fairly down from the copper beech screen. Leaves just starting to come down from the big oak tree at the back, just over the left hand fence.

And I dare say the mystery seedling will be looking a bit sorry for itself when I get that far down the garden.

PS: big display of herding and squawking from the green parakeets at dusk yesterday. Must have been fifty or more of them. Moving between the top of the big oak tree and the big ash tree beyond, to the right from where I am typing. Something we used to get with crows in Lower Furlongs at Brading, for which see reference 4. And something we still sometimes get during the day, rather than at the end of it, with sparrows in bushes hereabouts, although not anywhere near our garden.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/10/feeder-time.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-last-frost.html.

Reference 3: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/11/more-seedling.html.

Reference 4: http://psmv2.blogspot.com/2014/07/twit-log.html.