On a somewhat brighter afternoon we drove to the west of the forest where there are more farms than moors.
Daffodils were emerging from the grass on Neaton green.
I photographed this sky and trees from Hawthorn Road, beyond which
the field flocked with Canada and Egyptian geese, infiltrated by a large cygnet from the
neighbouring grassland on which Jackie focussed before she pictured
the tree line and clouds behind the Canada and Egyptian geese.
Further towards Bransgore we parked beneath a Buzzard; the first four images in this gallery being mine, and the last three, Jackie’s.
Finally I photographed a rookery,
and Jackie produced an image of me in action on my perch.
This evening we dined on hot and spicy lemon chicken baked with varicoloured peppers, on a bed of the Culinary Queen’s wonderful savoury rice, with a side of tender green beans with which she drank Diet Coke and I finished the Merlot.