ALthough the weather wasn’t great today, I decided to take the dog for a long walk.

I headed out to the Beaulieu River at Longwater Lawn near Ashurst in the New Forest, and was surprised to see no less than  3 Little Egrets.  I was rather surprised, as although I know that these are getting more common, I have never seen one this close to my parents home.  I managed to get a few shots of one in flight, but the light was terrible, and it was raining heavily, so its nothing special.

A bit later on, when I was walking alongside the railway line near Ashurst Lodge, I stumbled across two Woodlarks, which was a really nice surprise, as I hadn’t seen one of these for years.