Saturday, September 29, 2012
The Combe Round
We walked the longer round once again, on a bright but windy day and with me in pain from my lower back. Goodness knows what I've done; I can now hardly move. Two ravens were on the track near the gibbet.
A willow tit was on Walbury Hill with a blue tit, and a sparrowhawk was twice seen scudding low over the ground. Quite a few swallows and house martins were hunting over the crest of the downs, and there were lots of meadow pipits. But if I'd hoped for ring ouzels and other migrants, I was to be disappointed. They were shooting in earnest this week, even though it's not yet 1st October. Probably didn't help.
// posted by Christine @ 10:00 AM 
