Saturday, November 28, 2020
Shadows on the beach......
Not much was seen however, until the drive out. High above the ridge, a sparrowhawk and a raven were duelling. We pulled into a passing place and I snapped off a few pics with the engine still running; this and the incredible speed of the birds' manoeuvres didn't make for sharp photos (she says, as if they would have been sharp otherwise).
Eventually the raven sailed off in one direction and the sparrowhawk in another. Greger agreed that the dog-fight had been very exciting to watch, although he'd had to watch out for traffic. Surprised, because there'd been very little traffic on the way out, I asked if anything had passed. "Five cars - including the rozzers!" I'd been so intent on what I was doing, I hadn't noticed. Oops.
Yesterday I mooched about indoors doing domestic stuff and watching the bird feeders. Behind them, in the depths of the dwarf pine, a treecreeper scuttled up the trunk and then flew briefly across to the pollarded willow.
It's the second time I've recorded treecreeper in the garden, and the sighting was especially welcome as we've failed to see one along the river paths this year.
// posted by Christine @ 9:53 AM 
