Drifting fog at dusk

Just as I was blocking out the last of a bleak mid-winter day, I noticed that the fog that had stubbornly hung around all day was finally starting to shift. Our house looks out over two shallow valleys (at least when the leaves aren’t on the trees) and I could see the tops of those valleys starting to peak out from above the fog. So I quickly put on my jacket and boots and walked down to the end of the lane to look over the fields and see if I could get some suitably wintry dusk photos. I’m quite pleased with the results below, showing how the increasing breeze was blowing the fog away…

Chickens, ducks and big bats

We’ve just been across the lane to put our neighbours’ chickens and ducks away for the night and we’re treated to the sight of a few noctule bats flying high above us.

They’re one of the UK’s largest bats with a wingspan of between 32cm and 40cm, much larger than the pipistrelles we more commonly see.

They were flying around at tree-top level, looping around us and diving on their prey – a quite spectacular dusk view.