I appear to have lost a leg..........

Pulled the bedroom curtains back at 25 to 7 this morning.
The robin, sparrows, and collared dove were all breakfasting on the seed i'd left out for them yesterday afternoon. The wood pigeons were perched in the trees opposite, and it didn't look too bad a morning.
I've got time to have a shave and jump in the shower before the Grand Prix starts on the BBC.

Looking skyward there was a fly past by one of the many squadrons of pigeons based at the fort over the road.......followed by not 1 but 2 Herons which flew over towards and landed on the the gate house of Fort Brockhurst.
On went the undies (too much information), jeans, shirt, take a look over to the fort, the 2 herons were being attacked by about 8 crows..........carried on getting dressed.............grabbed a light jacket out of the wardrobe............rushed down the stairs collecting the Canon from the front room before exiting the front door and heading for the fort (stops typing to catch breath).
Reached the Gate House, not a heron in site... Big thank you to the crows....!!

Surely the herons had come to feed, they wouldn't be put of by a few pesky crows.

After doing almost a full circuit around the fort i came across this guy, i would have loved to of had a shot of him actually in the water or even by the water, oh and a lot closer would have been nice, but hey thats photography for you.

I managed to get about 3 shots and he was gone...........!!

Can be viewed large here.

It's now 10 minutes past four in the afternoon and we already have the lights on in the conservatory, i fear it's going to be a very very long winter.

Thanks for stopping by.

J.