Autumn light

 

After a grey start to the day, there was some lovely autumn light for a few hours when I chanced upon the `mouse-like` Long-tailed Tits flitting between trees.

These are fabulous little birds, quite confiding of people (if you keep still), and can form reasonably large social groups sometimes.

An afternoon visit to Llanrhidian marsh to check for Harriers paid off when a female Hen Harrier showed up, although a long way out as usual. Great to watch though, but never close enough today for any photography.

An hour or two later the grey clouds blotted out the sunlight, and it became reasonably dark quite quickly, so abandoned for the rest of the day.