Calne (Wednesday 30th November 2016)

I didn't get further than Calne yesterday morning because of visibility problems through the windscreen, the screenwash having iced up. Instead I took a short stroll around the town centre. At the church I was rewarded by the first sighting in a long time of Calne's resident peregrine on the church tower. It had recently had breakfast, judging by the feathers occasionally wafting down from its ledge.

The Extra shows where I took the picture from.

There are actually two peregrines that come to the church tower and later in the day a member of the Calne Wildlife group posted pictures of both on Facebook, far better than mine, taken that afternoon. This was taken with an effective 450 mm focal length, hand held, at 1/500th.

L.
1.12.2016 (1321 hr)

Blip #1984 (#2234 including 250 archived blips)
Consecutive Blip #005
Day #2442 (460 gaps from 26 March 2010)
LOTD #1219 (#1345 including 126 on archived blips)

Taken with Pentax K-50 (Red) and Pentax HD P-DA 55-300mm F4-5.8 ED WR lens

Calne series
Birds Of Prey series
Churches series

Lozarhythm of the Day:
Everly Brothers - Three armed, poker-playin' river rat (recorded 11 November 1971, Los Angeles CA; overdubs added later)
Everly Brothers: Don Everly (vcl, gtr) and Phil Everly (vcl, gtr)
with Dennis Linde (gtr), Jeff Kent (gtr), Danny Weis (gtr), Buddy Emmons (pdl stl gtr), Michael Fanfara (kbds), Chris Ethridge (bass), Johnny Barbata (dr)
From Stories We Could Tell, played on this day, this track was composed by guitarist Dennis Linde.