Black Grouse - Tetrao tetrix
Canon 800mm f6.3 for 1/800th @ iso800
Early May to be precise the 4th May and heavy snow falls across the Welsh hills.
Further down the valley Spring continued as it should do and the Cuckoos having completed their annual migration from Africa where seeking out mates and nest sites to lay their eggs in - leaving a hapless Whitethroat or Meadow Pipit to cope with the feeding and raising of their young.
Ian and I were out and about looking for Barn Owls to photograph - as dusk fell a juvenile Cuckoo landed close to us, although the light was dipping quickly with the sun almost below the horizon and the bird sitting into the light it would have been rude not to have taken a few shots.
Early May to be precise the 4th May and heavy snow falls across the Welsh hills.
Further down the valley Spring continued as it should do and the Cuckoos having completed their annual migration from Africa where seeking out mates and nest sites to lay their eggs in - leaving a hapless Whitethroat or Meadow Pipit to cope with the feeding and raising of their young.
Ian and I were out and about looking for Barn Owls to photograph - as dusk fell a juvenile Cuckoo landed close to us, although the light was dipping quickly with the sun almost below the horizon and the bird sitting into the light it would have been rude not to have taken a few shots.