30 Days Wild : Day 20 : Poppies and a barn owl

I raced over to Sheffield after work and spent an excellent evening at The Birdhouse Tea Company tasting a couple of different teas and blending my own chai tea ☕️..

I stopped to admire a poppy field and also watched a barn owl hunting during the journey home afterwards.

Day 3 - In the Garden

Life is stressful at the moment. I had a very busy day today, emails to read and reply to, people to see, places to be. I didn't have a lot of wild time but I did spend a short time in the garden to check on a new insect hotel that went up about a week ago and discovered that it is already in use.

By 9:45pm, after spending ages drafting yet another email, I was feeling a bit stressed and in need of a change of scenery, so I made a cup of tea and sat in the garden by a trefoil patch for a little while. I saw a couple of bats and heard an owl (tawny).

How was your Day 3?

Last year on Day 3 I spent time reading in the garden
http://louises30dayswild.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/day-3.html

Day 275 - Sunset

A late finish at school today so not a lot of time for the great outdoors. I did catch the sunset though :)

Day 194 - Catching the sunset

Today I stopped to watch the setting sun on my way home from school...

It had been sunny all day and would have been a lovely day for a walk - it's a shame I had to work!

Day 193 - Bare branches

 
Yes, it branches again... I do love to admire the trees at this time of year and I struggled to do much else today! This was a quick photo take after school, as the light faded.

Day 130 - Deer at Dusk

I went out for a Red Deer walk this evening, led by the Eastern Moors Partnership.  The walk was in the same area where I photographed the stag that featured here in last Friday's post.

We set off around 5pm and hadn't walked far when we saw the first stag.

Foolishly, I'd left my binoculars at home - they usually live in the car, but came into the house when I unloaded after last weekend's trip to the coast and I had forgotten to put them back in - doh! Though I can use my zoomy camera as substitute bins anyway and to be honest, I went out to enjoy a walk on the moors mainly - I'm not a huge fan of deer (though I don't dislike them particularly!)  and I can see them any time as they're pretty easy to find on Big Moor and there are a few closer to home as well.

More exciting than deer was the baby adder found on a path...

Then a short eared owl (I haven't see one of those for a while) and then a female hen harrier too - most unexpected!

The light was pretty rubbish - and fading - so my photographs are all terrible, especially the hand-held-at-full-zoom ones, but here are a few anyway!

Here's a challenge - Spot the Deer!

There was a lovely sunset as the group stood on the moor...

And I loved walking back after sunset, with torchlight, surrounded by the sounds of the bolving stags! I love being out at dusk and after dark - every time I walk after dark I tell myself I should make it more a more regular occurrence, but never do!

Did you spot the deer?

Here's a blurry and dull, full zoom photo (the one above was taken at partial zoom.

This was the closest deer and you can see how far out he was in the photo below, taken without any zoom - you can just see the green shape, right of centre - that's where the above deer was standing.

I mustn't leave it so long before I go for a dusk walk again!

Day 122 - Sunset

A long day at work then a meal out with ex-colleagues left me very little time to spent outdoors but I did manage to catch the sunset and the last light of the day falling over the moorlands, on my way to the pub where we were eating!

Wednesdays are usually a long day for me so my Wild Time could get tricky on Wednesday when there is less daylight - I'll be heading off to work as the sun rises and leaving in the dark soon!

Day 56 - Dusk in the garden

Another late wander in the garden to see what I could find. It had rained all day and I was busy indoors so I almost forgot to take a photo today, and about 365 Days Wild. I did remember before it went too dark, luckily!

This is the result from 15 minutes in the garden. I also watched loads of little moths flying around in the grass and spotted a meadow bug.

Day 54 - Raindrops on Roses

Some photos taken in the garden before shortly it went dark...