Early morning, and the ground underfoot varies from frozen crunchy to treacherously boggy. The sky overhead is a deep blue, the first rays of sunlight yet to bathe the fields, hedgerows and woodland in that magical golden glow. Clattering wings herald the departure of nearly 1000 Woodpigeons from their overnight roost, and a Blackbird rustles through the vegetation in the hedge bottom. A menacing shape carves through the air just above the treetops; the menacing flap-flap-glide of our local male Sparrowhawk, beating the bounds of his territory in search of the wintering flocks of Siskins, Redpolls, Crossbills, Chaffinches and Bramblings. The pungent scent of a Red Fox marks an area that I’ll want to stake out with my camera on another day, and as I head back towards home a Roe Deer springs across the path just a few metres ahead of me and disappears into the plantation just behind our house. An excellent way to prepare for the day ahead 🙂
4 responses to “Early morning – Choppington Woods”
Excellent! Want some company for your fix stake out?!
Fox I mean!
That’s a whole new marketing strategy I hadn’t considered 🙂
Could do. I’m going to do a few more early morning/late evening checks of the specific locations where I think it should be possible to get good images of Foxes, then probably construct a rough hide.
I’ve got another site where there are good photo opportunities as well. I’ll blog about that later this morning.