Monday, 21 December 2015

Merlin and More Cranes

The unseasonal warm weather continues with the sunshine  temperature still breaking into the twenties but there was a strongish southerly blowing yesterday which allowed me to exactly count the slow moving skeins of cranes that were battling against it; there were sixty birds in all.
Later I unintentionally flushed a male merlin from one of the few trees which survive on the plains and he rapidly shot off towards one of the many restless skylark flocks.

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