Showing posts with label skylark. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skylark. Show all posts

Sunday, 24 July 2011

I'm Back!


This is the view I shall be facing for the next few weeks at I sit at my laptop on the kitchen unit at GB’s.  One of the things that delights me most is the fact that I can step outside the front door and sit on the garden seat and hear only the sound of the sea.  No lorries or buses going past, no noise from next door’s doctor’s surgery or nursing home as we have at home; noises which occur at all hours of the day and night.  No constant sound of people drilling, mowing and all the other things that people seem to get up to in Pensby.  On a Sunday afternoon in GB’s garden the loudest thing you can hear, besides the rolling surf, is the beat of  Rock Pigeon’s wings as it comes into land at the bird table.



Looking across to Upper Bayble.


This is the sort of thing that passes the front door!


Though it’s a little bit further away than the lorries that pass the side of our house at home.



Lichens thrive on the unpolluted air.


A baby Whinchat (or Wheatear - GB and I have different views as to what it was) paid a visit.


As did a Skylark.

Thursday, 12 June 2008

Stunning/stunned Skylark Pictures

Wednesday 11th June 2008



I have come to the conclusion this baby Skylark is either short-sighted or very stupid. It hit the study window again this morning. Fortunately it seems once more to have escaped with a another brief stunning. If it were a Formula One driver it would be forced to miss a race after two consecutive bouts of concussion. I wonder if it's mother will ground it for a day or two?





So far the story has a happy ending and it has flown off after a minute or two recuperating.

Sunday, 1 June 2008

On the croft

Friday, 30th May 2008
I walked down to the shore again this afternoon and en route photographed some of the flowers to be found on it including Tormentil, Buttercups, Primroses, Marsh Marigolds, Cuckoo Flower, Lesser Celandine, and Thrift.






As always I could not resist photographing Bayble Island. What is it about islands that gives them such special appeal?




One of my ambitions is to photograph a Skylark singing in flight. I haven’t managed it yet but at least today I got some photos of one sitting on fence posts and trying to distract me - presumably its nest was nearby.