Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain


After a few of days of feeling 'under the weather' I needed to get out for some fresh air, so took the easy option of parking the car at Canons Farmhouse so that I could walk along the lane to Lunch Wood and back. When getting as far as the wood, I turned to walk back only to be faced with a solid wall of black cloud - there was no option but to huddle under a beech tree and wait for twenty minutes while it poured with rain. Compensation came in the form of a double rainbow as the weather headed east (above).


Reeds Rest Cottages were the centre of the action, with a mobile flock of 130 Swallows that alternated between the overhead wires and Broad Field, all scattering when a patrolling Hobby cruised through. Two Wheatears were together on the recently trimmed hedgerow, close to the RRC barns (above), and a Peregrine was sat on one of the dead trees on Stoney Nob, looking quite cheesed off with life as the black clouds gathered (below). Warblers were thin on the ground, with just 2 Whitethroats and single Willow Warbler and Chiffchaff. A tidy return for just over an hour's birding.


The moth trap did not go out last night, but the morning before saw the third Scarce Bordered Straw of the month recorded in the garden (below). They are appearing widely across the country and the way things are going I would expect to see more of them here before the autumn is over.

Comments

Marc Heath said…
Not bad at all for an hours work. Love the top weather photo. The colours are superb.
31 August 2017 at 19:37
Marc Heath said…
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31 August 2017 at 19:37
Steve Gale said…
No Photoshop work at all on that one Marc.
31 August 2017 at 20:22
Simon Douglas Thompson said…
The rainbow is beautiful, needed one today
31 August 2017 at 21:05
Steve Gale said…
IT made up for getting wet Simon
31 August 2017 at 22:06
DorsetDipper said…
Nice Alexander's band in that top photo.
31 August 2017 at 22:42
Steve Gale said…
Thanks DD, I didn't know that was what it is called.
31 August 2017 at 23:12
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