It still feels quite mild at the moment with daytime temperatures in the mid-teens. This is actually about average for October in Northamptonshire and the night times are in their average range too (six to eight degrees Celsius). I even had my shorts on as I went for my lunchtime wander down the lane and eventually the track if turns into.

There were more signs of the changing season and the winter to come. The leaves really are starting to put on a show, even in the drab greyness of today. There was also a small flock of roving long-tailed tits in one of the hedgerows, which will hopefully arrive on our birdfeeders on their way past. Finally, there was also the first winter thrush of the season, a fieldfare calling alarm from the top of a tree.