December days

This is the time of year when we devote our days to repairing old Barn Owl nestboxes, making and erecting new ones (and occasionally providing advice to farmers and landowners on how to keep - or attract - their Barn Owls).
So, these are days of saws, drills and screwdrivers. Doesn't sound very appetising, does it? But there are compensations, not just the here-to-horizon vistas and skyscapes provided by the fens, and not just the wonderful sight of an occasional Barn Owl slipping silently out of a barn and arcing across the fields to another roost site. Today, for example, the compensations included fields with up to 2000 Whooper Swans feeding on potatoes and other scraps, wisps of Golden Plover tripping across the sky, a male Merlin trying momentarily to look like a Kestrel before turning to reveal its true identity.....
It's not a bad way to spend a December day!