Reward?

This wasn't my intended blip, but there is a better story to this blue tit and his sunflower seed.

The blue tit appeared on the wrong side of the window, how he had got into the office we didn't know. Most birds when they find themselves close to people inside a room, panic and fly repeatedly against the windows. Not this little fellow, he was perfectly calm about the whole experience.

As I carefully opened the window wide, he hopped along the window ledge, spotted a sunflower seed that was lying there, picked it up and then perfectly composed, hopped to the open window and flew into the birch tree.

He hammered away at the seed for a few minutes until it flicked out of his foot. Whether he recovered his reward I don't know.

Anyway, it was an amusing incident in an otherwise uneventful day in the office. I had a walk at lunchtime, and the sun very briefly peeped from the clouds. The cloud thickened again later, and at 5 pm the light was failing. Winter is coming.

A year ago, another one of those early morning skies over Ingleborough. This is a few hundred metres up the road - makes for very lazy blipping when the weather is good (which is not very often, mind).