Afternoon delight

The weather has been all over the place, just recently, so it wasn't until around 11.30 hrs that Bruno and I jumped in the van and headed over to Worth Marshes RSPB Res for our daily wander. Even when we arrived there was still rain in the air with ominous cloud cover to the south. There are no two ways about it? Bruno's arrival has been catalyst to my birding efforts, of late. The reserve was rather quiet and what I did see was totally predictable. We walked the Pinnock Wall, then The Roaring Gutter as far as the Hacklinge Pumping Station, before retracing our steps. In no great hurry, we'd been out for nearly two hours as the intermittent rain continued to cause problems with my binos and camera kit. We couldn't have been more than 600m from the van when I spotted a Barn Owl hunting over the marsh we'd just passed. Quickly retracing our steps, I was able to have a play with camera kit, whilst Bruno sniffed for mice in the adjacent vegetation.

A really nice surprise, given the time of day, and yet another demonstration of the ridiculous  advances in image capture technology that allows a "point and press" blogger to obtain such pleasing results.