It has been awhile since the last update, so here are a couple of brief updates from the past month, then we should be back on course again.

The idea was to go to Sky Hill and try taking a picture of the moonrise as it was a full moon that evening, but that was not to be due to the constantly changing weather, and when the moon did eventually appear in all its glory above the cloud, it had climbed to high and there was no light left from the sunset to light Sky Hill as I had wanted.

However, every cloud has a silver lining so they say, and what I missed with the moon rise, I gained  earlier in the couple of hours spent at Close Sartfield.

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As the meadows had still not been cut, there was very little chance of seeing any hares, so we went down to the hide where we were able to see a flock of greylag geese fly back to their roost.

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Although people coming down to the hide managed to make enough noise to scare away any of the animals close by, one hare was quietly confident that not only was he save, but not visible to any eyes, except ours!

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Eventually once all the noise and disturbance caused by the people had subsided a young wallaby appeared from the bush and settled alongside the hide, just below us. We could hear movement in the undergrowth, but it was another 30 minutes before a large wallaby appeared and with 4 hops, crossed the meadow into the undergrowth on the other side closely followed by the youngster.

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The light was fading fast now, and it was clear that low cloud was going to spoil the moonrise, but we did go and wait at the bottom of Sky Hill, just in case there would be a break in the clouds, but this didn’t happen. I’ll just have to wait another month and try again.