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This post is a bit of a cheat, really, in that there aren't any pictures in it! But I just wanted to tell you all of a couple of things I saw in the past few days...

.....first, we were up at the caravan all last week, and R & I stayed on til monday evening. Anyway, took the dogs up to a wood nearby at about 6:30 Monday morning, for their walk. We were going up through the first stands of trees and they had both disappeared on their own doggie way, as they do. I heard a kind of bounding "thump thump thump" fairly close, and thought it was Bodie running bak. Looked up...... and about 20 feet away from me was a full-grown Roe deer stag, bounding down the hill. Absolutely breathtaking, and, natch, NO CAMERA!!! Dohh!!

Second one was, Tuesday afternoon up Croy Hill (where the "bush" and "tree" pics were taken) heard a "caw caw" sound up above. Looked up, and the breeding pair of buzzards I've been sort of keeping an eye on all summer were flying out, with "Buzzy", their one-and-only chick, obviously out for his first (or one of his first, anyway) flights, with mum and dad squawking to keep him right! Beautiful!

Then today, up there again, and Buzzy was out on his own. Didn't expect him so early, so no camera again, but did have my little binoculars this time. Definitely Buzzy, as the Primaries weren't quite fully developed, and some of the wing-tip feathers weren't adult length, but he was doing very well despite that. Didn't quite have the knack of "catching the thermals" at first, but after about 15 minutes he finally got it - up, up and awaaaay he went, so high I lost him after about 500 feet (very hazy today).

I wish I'd had my camera, even though I'm reduced to dial-up again..... I'm sure you would have loved him as much as I did.

Ah well........ next time!!

DM