Up With The Lark And Caught A Hare

The day dawned so gloriously that I went out with the camera before breakfast. I planned to shoot a landscape at Lodge Farm, where my most viewed Blip was taken.

As I got out of the car I disturbed a flock of fieldfares and the air was full of larks and their song. I shot a few landscapes then swapped lenses. Soon after I had done so I saw a hare loping towards me out of the sun in the distance. I locked onto it and it seemed not to notice me until the last minute. I've decided to post this pic as it is the first hare I have photographed. I togged two more this morning. :) One of the pics I got is technically better but the hare is in a ploughed field. I like the wet grass background in the one I have posted

I got some nice pics of courting skylarks in flight before I went home for breakfast.

This afternoon I got a great pic of a gorgeous Essex girl and her horse at Harold's Park Farm. They were both turned out beautifully. She was wearing white jodhpurs and a white high-necked top trimmed with diamante that was twinkling in the sunshine. Not much wildlife showing at the farm so I went to Fisher's Green. There I togged a beautiful Egyptian goose, (they're actually ducks) a redwing against the clear blue sky and an imperious-looking ram.

A day that it felt good to be alive, to be able to walk and to hear and see the beauty of the countryside and everything that inhabits it.