I am staying with Mac Gillivrays in the Valromey. They live in a 11th? century chateau in a valley that looks much the same now as it did then.

As a gesture towards modernity they have a bird feeder which, in the autumnal gloom, is much visited by tits.

The Great or Big Tit

The Coal Tit

Pussy cats sat and watched with me

The Blue Tit

His name is Ginger

Marsh or maybe Willow Tit. Cannot remember the difference.

Her name is Mimi

I spend hours sitting in the garden, watching the birds, watching the cats, the cats watch me, the birds watch me, it is very quiet and harmonious.

A Nuthatch