Golden Hour Goldfinches

I'm so happy. On two days running I have walked Mishka off the lead down to our field. She spotted a muntjac deer this evening and gave chase but soon returned to me. I was beginning to think that I would never be able to let her off outside the garden.

I sat on my upturned old tank, with Mishka beside me, waiting for something to fly over. I got a helicopter but have decided to post a charm of goldfinches that I watched fly to the top of the oak tree. This is the tree that lost a huge bough a few years ago. Its heart is rotten and it always loses its leaves much earlier than the other oaks.