Self-heal, Prunella vulgaris Kestrel are not clamorous birds, so something was wrong. A magpie perched on the ridge of a barn and a young kestrel clung to the wall below the eaves. The adult kestrel was shrill in defence of its young, and I watched their aerial combat. The kestrel flew calling and came down briefly onto a wire, then launched another attack at the marauding magpie. Through binoculars, I could make out the young kestrel now on a wire with the magpie.
I can share the flowers of the morning, but little of the kestrels- the adult was rapid in flight and the fledgling now too far off. There's often a discrepancy between the experience and what the images show.
I can share the flowers of the morning, but little of the kestrels- the adult was rapid in flight and the fledgling now too far off. There's often a discrepancy between the experience and what the images show.
Even closer to home, I heard sparrow-hawk hidden by summer foliage and high in the tree-tops. The morning was cloudy and dull, which is rather better for photographing yellow flowers - like dyer's green-weed. So I include a better image. Self-heal is inconspicuous and ground-hugging, but it's a flower I love in its structure and depth of colour. I found it growing beneath a flowering bramble and I like the contrast of their flowers.
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