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Message: <blockquote data-quote="halftwo" data-source="post: 1357175" data-attributes="member: 45720">Meteor Showers, Geese and a BramblingShooting stars and geese late last night: tail end of a meteor shower from what I gathered from Prof. Pilger (the shooting stars, not the geese). The geese were overhead and unseen in the star-spangled inky blackness of the night sky - but calling away like Pink-feet do.Hardly surprising then that this morning another deep frost had happened.To my delight the Little owl pair are once again back on their nest tree after an absence of several months since the young were fledged this summer gone.Where have they been?  I've no idea; but back they are.Frozen fields with a hundred Lapwing blinking in the morning light. A few gulls sitting on ice, waiting for the thaw.Further on and I locate the Chaffinch flock - ever mobile and restless. Set up the 'scope and scan. Bingo! One lovely male Brambling amongst the throng. House and Tree sparrows, Linnets and a single Fieldfare, Starlings and seven Skylarks all skittish and wary. A Kestrel watches. Nearer to, Pied wagtails and a Meadow pipit flit around frozen puddles and horses' legs.And there, high up, a V of geese are heading west. Too distant to hear, but Pink-feet by silhouette. Back home for breakfast: Nuthatches stash sunflower seeds and Long-tailed tits hang from the feeders - a feathery festoon of seasonal colour by the window.</blockquote>