I went on the Invernorth walk this morning. It was cold, there was a frost in sheltered places, the sun had just risen and bathed everything in a beautiful gold light.
The first thing I saw stepping out of the front door was a female blackbird posing on a fence post catching the early rays.
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| Blackbird |
There were another four on other posts along the road. Song Thrushes chose higher perches.
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| Song Thrush |
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| Song Thrush |
Their singing was loud in the still air and carried even further from the tops of poles and trees.
A buzzard was even higher, not for singing but for surveillance.
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| Buzzard |
It saw me coming and made for a tree top a little further away from the road.
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| Buzzard |
Other birds enjoying the early morning sun included a Robin
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| Robin |
a Yellowhammer
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| Yellowhammer |
and a Corn Bunting
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| Corn Bunting |
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but most exciting of all was my first swallow of 2017
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| Swallow with Pied Wagtail on the left |
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| Swallow |
It looked pretty exhausted and bedraggled.
Then the rain came in producing rainbows. At first they were little bits of rainbows
Then full arcs, unfortunately I only had my telephoto lens so could not get the full picture. The colours in the morning light were as intense as I have ever seen.
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