Meadow Pipit - Anthus pratensis
Canon 800mm f5.6 for 1/1250th @ iso320
It is September up on the hills and the ferns which did not come fully out until late in the year are already showing signs of dying back. A Meadow Pipit still up on the higher slopes of the hill, sits on top of one of the remaining ferns, a month or so back and the slopes of the hillside where just a "field" of ferns, now fewer remain offering perches to Pipits and the Stonechats . The likes of the Cuckoos and Whinchats spring migrants to the hills have now left and are undertaking their migrations south to warmer climates.
It is September up on the hills and the ferns which did not come fully out until late in the year are already showing signs of dying back. A Meadow Pipit still up on the higher slopes of the hill, sits on top of one of the remaining ferns, a month or so back and the slopes of the hillside where just a "field" of ferns, now fewer remain offering perches to Pipits and the Stonechats . The likes of the Cuckoos and Whinchats spring migrants to the hills have now left and are undertaking their migrations south to warmer climates.