We watched from our breakfast table as, well before sunrise, a thousand and more pink-footed geese filled the sky as skein after skein - some better organised than others - flew north to their daylight feeding grounds, more....
....and more of them in bigger or smaller groups as the light grew and....
....the sun finally broke the horizon.
After breakfast I walked up the track that climbs into the forestry, carefully because....
....the night's clear sky had brought a sharp frost and there were places where the going underfoot was treacherous; and as I walked so the birds gave me more joy, first as....
....more geese passed over, lower than the earlier ones, then as....
,,,,three buzzards wheeled above the fields which, in summer, had supported the glut of rabbits which has now given way to famine.
I walked for about half-an-hour uphill, far enough to be able to see the warmth of the sun light the Silver Rock, seen here with Loch Fleet away in the distance.
That hill and the views look so attractive. Any sign of gorse flowers?
ReplyDeleteHi Derryck - Yes, some gorse is already in full bloom. Amazing stuff! Jon
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