Birthday visits from long-tailed tits.

(From Western Daily Press)

Reader Janet Owen sends me regular wildlife sightings from Roseland, and tells of an interesting story involving her sister, now living in Tavistock. While living in Kent, said sister had never seen a long-tailed tit but, while spending Christmas at Roseland, saw them for the first time on her December 30 birthday.

The following year, at home in Kent, long-tailed tits arrived in her garden for the first time, on her birthday. As Janet says, almost spooky.

And do you know what a reverse poser is? I coined the phrase when I sketched and coloured a little picture of a wood mouse nibbling a rosehip that was held in its tiny …