Autumn colour

We are being blessed by a late burst of summer. The temperature is mild, the skies blue (most of the time), and the autumnal colours are vibrant.
Autumn colour

The day had in fact begun with greying overcast skies, and a touch of rain in the air, so it was welcome bonus to find the sun out at lunchtime. The cattle were out in the fields, and at least one young male was feeling rather frisky.
Cattle

Others were behaving rather more sedately, sheltering in the shade of the trees.

In the distance a kestrel cut across the edge of the woods.

I followed. It settled in the tree and then rose again to hover. I debated whether to move across to get closer or to watch and wait. I waited. And I was rewarded when the kestrel tired of its hunting patch and swept across the fields to the wooded area on the far side of the valley.
Kestrel

I followed him for a while, knowing that in doing so I was heading in precisely the opposite direction to where I should have been going. But a lunchtime kestrel is a lunchtime bonus that is hard to forgo.

And this is the video from last night, when Bold was investigating the torch and trail cam. Quality is not good, but you can see her now quite distinctive limp (which I think must be permanent).


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Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 40D and EF 400mm f/5.6L USM lens.

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This Post Has 8 Comments

  1. gdare

    28 Oct 2009

    Do you think she will never be able to walk normally again? :awww:

  2. Flying Red Fox Blog

    28 Oct 2009

    LOL at the Cow 😆 Hotham Park is really beautiful too i will get the photos up soon, i think we are in an *Indian Summer* thats good isnt it.

    Poor Bold she must have been hit by road traffic to have a very bad limp like that poor her, maybe the constant resting in the garden was her recovering from the shock perhaps? only speculationg though.

  3. SittingFox

    28 Oct 2009

    I hope she's not in discomfort. But she seems to have adapted well.

  4. Words

    29 Oct 2009

    Adele, she's careful with it, but coping nicely!

  5. Words

    29 Oct 2009

    Mark, this late summer sun is great. I looked at your blog tonight and see you've got some of the Hotham Park pictures up. It's a shame they're being mean about feeding the squirrels 🙁

    You're right that she was using the garden more as she was recovering with the leg. It could have been a car but foxes are fairly careless when they jump so it could be her own fault.

  6. Words

    29 Oct 2009

    Darko, I have a feeling she will always limp 🙁 But she can still run and still climb fences so it's not too bad.

  7. cakkleberrylane

    29 Oct 2009

    The cows are so funny – love the way the female is ignoring the male and just munching her grass

  8. Words

    29 Oct 2009

    She didn't stop eating for moment.

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