- Up miles before dawn again (about 3am) and drove through pea-souper fog (caused by an almighty temperature inversion overnight) to the ridgeway, to see if I could get a few shots of a few things.
- As I drove into the carpark at the top of the ridgeway (emerging out of the fog into clear skies) my foglights picked out maybe around two dozen grey partridge - very nice to see.
- I managed to find a short-eared owl, sheltering in a pine tree - I'm so glad they're back - maybe I'll try and get a nice photo of our short-eared owls this winter...
- Other highlights - loads of corn bunting, a couple of buzzards and kestrels, a few redpoll and the most grey partridge I've ever seen - I must have counted three or four dozen during my walk.
- It was a glorious dawn - the ridgeway to myself, the pea-soup fog below but sun in my eyes - it was rather like flying and looking down on clouds from a plane, for a time.
- Some photos are posted here (Including one of 14 flying grey partridge), but my two favourite photos are posted in large sizes on my images website.
- NB. The first photo is of Didcot Power Station cooling towers just peeping through the fog, by the way.
really like the partridge image... minimalist, very picturesque.
ReplyDeleteThanks Al. Its nice to see these birds - they're not doing so well in the UK these days...
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