Have just spent a long time moving oak leaves from the top of the driveway down to the bottom, so that the city guys with the big vacuum cleaner can take them away next week. I would be happier about this if our oak tree was a garry oak, but it's not, it's just a normal, messy oak. It does look pretty in the sunset, though:
And the birds love it. Lots of action this evening. Here's the robin:
I thought these guys were cedar waxwings, but now that I'm looking at the photos, I wonder if they are grosbeaks. I know, not too similar, but it's hard to see them properly through all the oak busyness.
And here is more of the sunset (and starlings?), through the neighbour's tree (cypress?):
