Paddy and I set off this morning on our walk, braving the cold as is our wont and found ourselves on a new route which led past a pig pen containing two pigs which looked to me like Gloucestershire Old Spots. Knowing Paddy's propensity for high levels of excitement when within sniffing radius of pigs, I proceded cautiously and was only able to get this photo of one of them. However, as it had noticed us by this time and was approaching for a closer investigation, Paddy seems to have decided to keep a low profile on this occasion.
We got home in time for me to do the Big Garden Birdwatch. New visitors this year were two nuthatches but, although we have plenty of great tits, blue tits, dunnocks and house sparrows, we still have no starlings around here.