Autumnal light

We arrived at Holly early afternoon. A late lunch and then I headed off to get essential provisions for the weekend. Arriving back I stopped very briefly in the passing place half way along the access road into the park and took a photograph or two. The late afternoon light was fabulous, and some of the local fallow deer had ventured out from the adjacent woodland into the open to graze.

After sorting out the shopping myself and J ventured back on foot. The sun had set, and it was quite magical. More deer - including frolicsome fawns- crossing the access road to graze. Large flocks of starlings flying low on their way to the reedbeds at Leighton Moss to roost. The sound of their multiple wingbeats amazing. Large flocks of rooks heading to roost. Tawny owls calling to each other. Late bats still flying in the twilight light. And the weirdest sound - lots of rasping calling from the sedgy field - the pre take-off calls of snipe, ready to head off to feed. And a lovely moon glimpsed between the clouds, and a bright star to the south - Venus, the twilight star.