Last night's wind

Just the one casualty on this morning's Horton Clockwise, down Longmead Road. The fallen branch looks to have been weakened by some sort of prior damage above.

Corner of bacon sandwich dispenser to be seen under the branch.

And while I am at it I can record the rather dismal result of our contribution to the Great British Bird Watch (see http://www.rspb.org.uk/), the result of 10 minutes observation this Sunday afternoon at around 1500, from an upstairs window overlooking our back garden, with a view over a lawn and taking in quite a lot of shrubs and trees, a view including one mature oak tree in one neighbour's back garden and one mature standard apple tree (the source of most of our cooking apples in recent years) in another's. Despite the use of bins, just two birds to be seen in all this lot, two jays sitting on the top of the smaller oak tree, the one above our triple pond.

PS: council contractors on the case by noon Monday. Can't complain on that score.