Hunting Gray Heron

[ellarien]

Within moments of this photo being taken, the heron took a very slow, cautious step, as if playing Grandmother's Footsteps, and then pounced out of view; when we saw him again there was a fish wriggling in his beak, which he then gulped down.

And this was in a fairly busy park on a fine Bank Holiday Monday!

sloe in flower

[turlough]

This glorious mass of flowering sloe was the highlight of my walk this morning.



( A couple of close-ups... )