A Sunday Miscellany: birds, hounds and terriers (and maybe a spaniel or two)

We are getting a real show of birds at the moment. Amongst all the regulars we have at least two pairs of Great Spotted Woodpeckers visiting constantly through the day

A Nuthatch is back and forth all day

And a clutch or two of baby Tree Sparrows are still being fed. The fledged just before we had a really stormy night and we worried that they might not make it. They seem to have survived! 

 This afternoon, we popped along to the Ullswater Annual Field Day, held at Stainton.

The Best Spaniel on the field

Nick befriends a Patterdale while Rose quizzes its owner as to it's breeding

Ian of the Cumbria Beagles keeps his couple focussed on their job in hand

The Crook competition (have you spotted the pair of crooks at the back!)

Still the Best Spaniel on the field (there was one other by this time!)

Mummie's Little Princess gets a cuddle from Aunty Rose as we watch the Show Champion being judged

And it goes to our butcher, Ian with his lovely Border.