Tales From The River Bank - 11.05.2025
The sun and heat continue any one would think it was summer but confusingly it's still only spring. This morning I'm having a couple of hours down on the river, maybe I'll get lucky and get some shots of Dipper or even a Grey Wagtail.
It's around 9.30am and the temperature even this early is getting hot in direct sun, lugging the gear I'm get a fair sweat on so when I finally make it down near the waters edge I'm happy in the cooler temperature. A quick scan a Dipper is diving quite close around some rocks and a couple of Grey Wagtails busy gathering bill fulls of insects which I assume are feeding young nearby, might be worth an hour to see what's on offer !
I'm tucked up under a bank, I'm waiting for a Dipper to land on a rock three meters in front of me...no chance...wishful thinking ! after the initial sighting they never come close...hey ho !..Then out of the corner of my eye a Mink appears, it's searching the river bank for it's next meal then disappears only to appear further down the bank on a concrete wall, I rattle of two seconds of shots and it's gone.
An hour by the river with surprisingly quite a lot of activity and even an image of a Mink Ive not seen for sometime, you don't get a bagful of images all the time !
Mink..
Mallard....male
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