Cloud confusion

I do like it when a photograph reveals more than was obvious to the naked eye.  Yes, I was focussing on the cow (or more properly a steer), and I was aware of the confused layering of clouds as the dark, lower rain-bearing clouds peeled away to reveal the higher wispy ones and vapour trails.  But I didn't see the colouring either side of the brightness of the sun (sun dogs perhaps?).  Nor had I seen the flying bird close to the horizon, there were ravens cronking so I guess that's what this one is  (you may need to go large to see it).

It was a bracing walk over the Helm at lunchtime with Gus, doing our best to dodge the showers that came scudding through.  As well as the ravens, there was a buzzard surfing the wind like a kestrel.  To think before Gus arrived, I perhaps only walked this hill three or four times in ten years - despising it somewhat for the dullness of its vegetation over acid rocks, in contrast to the botanical richness of limestone Scout Scar on the other side of Kendal.  But now I come here several times a week, and the sky drama is different every time and the rise of the hill so often provides silhouette opportunities.

In case anyone is wondering where I am, we have a Broadband failure at home and no access to the internet. BT don't seem to be in any hurry to get the problem fixed.