Monday, April 11, 2011
Look away now, Dorn!
(An instruction to my sister who isn't keen on spiders.) They're only tiny spiderlings, though; babies of the Garden Spider, in a nest on the patio door.
A late-afternoon walk in The Three Woods brought no lesser-spots, just a few rain spots; but a wheatear was compensation out on the fields of Abbey Park Farm.
Saturday
We did a 12-kilometre walk on the downs near Lambourn. This is one of three wheatears at White Horse Hill, Uffington. A fourth was just off the Ridgeway a bit further west towards Wayland's Smithy.
As we drove away from Ashdown Park, a fifth Oxfordshire wheatear was seen in the sarsen field at the base of Weathercock Hill, standing on one of the "grey wether" stones at the southern end of the field. Unfortunately you can't really pull off the road there, otherwise I'd have loved a pic - a favourite bird and geology, two of my interests together. // posted by Christine @ 2:13 PM 
