A deer path led through waist high
ferns. We followed our ears, straining to hear the faint hunger cries of
great-spotted woodpecker nestlings. All of a sudden a woodcock flew up
from in front of us with it's legs trailing and making a strange call -
we froze. Looking carefully all around us and down at our feet we could
see nothing and were about to walk on when we saw it, under some old
fern fronds - a gorgeous fluffball! First
one fluffball. Then another, and another, and another! They were SO
good at hiding, and so still had they been sitting that they were
covered in pine pollen.
The perfect hiding place for little chicks: can you find them?
Here is that first picture again; did you find them?
Brilliant Tim, what a find!!
ReplyDeleteThanks - it was amazing! Mind, the snipe was not too shabby either!
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