I was sitting at my desk at work, when I looked out of the window, and high up in the oak tree outside was a white bird. A big white bird. I had no idea what it was.
It looked like a heron, but herons aren’t white, and it looked a little shorter than a heron. Fortunately, Simon recognised it, as he’d seen them before in Dartmouth – it was a Snowy Egret – a small white heron.
It stayed in the tree, preening itself and relaxing, for maybe an hour and a half.
This was the first time I’ve regretted switching to carrying just a pocketable Panasonic Lumix [: UK, US], rather than my Nikon D90 [: UK, US]. I regretted it a lot. I carried the Nikon for a couple of days afterwards, but it didn’t return.
This rainbow greeted us on the way home, and lasted long enough for me to get a snap from our doorway. It was startlingly bright and colourful in reality – in the pic, I’ve had to fiddle with it a bit to get it to look anything like the same, which makes it look a bit fake.
It’s been mostly good weather for the long weekend here. We even managed a walk on Saturday, which we’ve been failing on for quite a while. Grabbed this shot on the way back up Canal Hill to home:
We drove into town today, for lunch at Mad Hatters. I took a few autumn photos whilst walking from the car park to the cafe. After our lunch, we found a jackdaw who was having fun with a leaf, and kept giving us quizzical looks. Surprisingly, it stayed still for long enough for me to get a few shots. I even had the luck to catch one shot as he dropped a dropping.
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