Hoar frost

Today, in sharp contrast to yesterday, the temperature was only a seasonal 3c by mid morning, in sheltered spots away from the sun there was slight hoar frost as can be seen on these cow parsley leaves. We walked round Chapelton of Phingask and Merryhillock noticing a siskin, a flock of chaffinches feeding on the hedgerows, starlings on telegraph wires, geese flying overhead in a colossal noisy 'v' of barbed wire and hearing a distant curlew.