Green 'Woodenpecker'

Someone is having a bit of a laugh around our village.  This green woodpecker has appeared on the trunk of a willow tree alongside the path by the stream.  It certainly made me do a double take as I walked by looking for birds to photograph.  It is perched above a fallen tree trunk that last year had teeth and eyes added to it making it into our village crocodile (see extra).  I wonder how many of the people who walk the path every day with their dog(s), while glued to a mobile phone, have even noticed their appearance.

We have not been badly affected by storm Henry.  The wind is quite blustery but not too strong.