After a dismal start to the day and a couple of hail showers, the weather cleared to provide a beautiful sunny day. A cormorant was busy at the pond (photos tomorrow), and around the fringes several rats were navigating the fringes, clambering over rocks and swimming across the more difficult gaps. Tonight’s blog features a few of the shots, but there are more in the new Falmer Rats 2014 gallery.
On the edge
Testing the water
Swimming past a rock
And back on dry land.
And off once again…
Friday looks like rain, so I’m holding back a few treats until then. Today though was as good as it’s been for a long time.
Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.
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Then, as he looked, it
winked at him, and he realized it was an eye.
Then a small face began gradually to grow up
around it, like a frame around a picture.
A brown little face, with whiskers.
A grave round face, with the same twinkle
in its eye that had first attracted his notice.
Small neat ears and thick silky hair.
It was the Water Rat!
dW, nice quote! But in reality (fictionality?) Ratty was a water vole, and they are much harder to find. I have seen one once or twice, but common rats are much (much) more numerous. A real Ratty would be lovely to see.