Coffee, Biscuits and a Yellowhammer.
09th May 2024
Out walking again on a local hillside on another glorious spring morning, bees hummed from the hedgerows as I walked along and as the foliage thinned out Willow Warblers sang from seemingly every other bush. Further on the faint song of a Curlew drifted past, carried on the light warm breeze while Ravens ‘Pronked’ from on high. A very distant Cuckoo, the herald of spring, called from further up the valley. What a lovely place to spend time.
I sat down on a conveniently large flat stone, and while pouring a cup of coffee an Orange Tip butterfly busied past, no doubt searching for some garlic mustard. I was just enjoying this lovely scene sipping my coffee and nibbling some shortbread biscuits (a kind and thoughtful present to us from earlier this week).
However, there was about to be another present as a Yellowhammer came into view on a grassy mound just above me, I quickly got my 100-500 lens out of the bag and as he got to the top, in a very favourable position, I shot him.
These are lovely birds which in the past were very common on most farmland, sadly these days not so common or widespread.
A very nice end to the morning.
I sat down on a conveniently large flat stone, and while pouring a cup of coffee an Orange Tip butterfly busied past, no doubt searching for some garlic mustard. I was just enjoying this lovely scene sipping my coffee and nibbling some shortbread biscuits (a kind and thoughtful present to us from earlier this week).
However, there was about to be another present as a Yellowhammer came into view on a grassy mound just above me, I quickly got my 100-500 lens out of the bag and as he got to the top, in a very favourable position, I shot him.
These are lovely birds which in the past were very common on most farmland, sadly these days not so common or widespread.
A very nice end to the morning.