Saturday 20 April 2013

Sunny Skylark morning

As I've been heading off the Flats each morning towards Forest Gate, I've noticed a Skylark on the same tussock. With no time left to do anything about it, I'd made a mental note of the location, and told myself that come Saturday, if the weather was nice, I'd "have it". It dawned bright, and I was out for half six. Sure enough, the bird was there, on exactly that tussock. With the sun behind me I got into position and waited, and sure enough, off it flew. I knew that would happen, so I simply waited. I estimate it took about four minutes for the bird to return....


More to come later, I am currently extremely busy drinking chilled wine in the garden. I have about a million more Skylark photos to process, as well as roughly the same number of Meadow Pipit, and several thousand of a very dumb Wheatear that was the friendliest yet.

4 comments:

  1. Fantastic Skylark shot! I was at the Flats on Saturday and managed to photograph a Skylark on a tuft of grass near the forest gate end, although nowhere near as good as yours!

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  2. I was enjoying watching 3 Skylark at Frodsham Marsh last weekend, until a raptor caught one mid air. From Findlay

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  3. This is one of my favouritest of your photos ever. Wonderful.

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  4. This is one of my favouritest of your photos ever. Wonderful.

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