A walk around Solsbury Hill on wonderfully sunny and fresh day today, with snow and frost lying in the shadows and on the higher ground. The wildlife highlights were a drumming great spotted woodpecker, a muntjac deer, winter thrushes, and a fox, lit up in the sunshine.

It seems quite early in the year for a woodpecker, but in the sunshine there was considerable warmth. I came a cross a very angry mistle thrush too, chattering away to defend its berry-laden holly bush from fieldfares and redwings in an orchard/garden.

The fox was rather distant for my camera:

This is the woodpecker drumming: