Skylarks Galore

Thanks to you all for the feedback on yesterday's flower crop.  Useful and constructive.

I had to walk up to the village this morning to collect a prescription and as it was such a still, blue sky day, I came back over the ridge.  There were skylarks in abundance overhead although I could only pick out the odd one or two and it was too hazy to pick out any landmarks.

I met a solitary dog on my walk down through the wheat or barley field, a rather overweight and exuberant labrador, which if it had jumped up would have flattened me.  I managed to grab it and make a mental note of the phone number and his name, but after a few minutes I spotted his owner coming round the edge of the rape field, so that was ok.

As I made my way over the first playing field I did a double-take at the ridge tiles on one of the houses as there was a Muscovy duck nicely snuggled down having a snooze.  We do occasionally get Mallards on the roofs but that was definitely a first.

So today's blip is of a skylark surveying its domain.