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Saw a weazel on my way to work this morning ,it darted out in the road in front of me ,I was having a de ja vu .Absolutely gutted at having run over a tiny rabbit the other evening on the same road ,earlier in the  same evening ,I had braked sharply to let some grey partridges cross the road .The poor bunny had no chance ,it was dark ,he appeared at precisely the wrong moment ,couldnt do anything.Every day ,on this road ,I am ready to brake ,its usually sparrows by a farm who dont know the green cross code or pheasants that are the ones to watch out for on this road.

      We had been to see a presentation by Mike McKavett , a wildlife photographer ,his pictures are excellent.The slide show was on migration in North America and Canada ,he had visited these two countries ten times ,taking stunning picture after another,his research was maticulas -thoroughly recommended then.He mentioned a bar tailed godwit that had been fitted with a satelite tracker ,it had flown the 7000 miles from Alaska to New Zealand in 11 days .The remarkable thing here being, revealed via the technology is that this bird flew non stop for 11 days until reaching its destination!

               At Beeley triangle today there was no sign of any montagues harriers or hen harriers,we did watch a  female peregrine in flight ,getting a good view At one point ,she changed up a gear -her accelation absolutely phenonenal.A closer view of a low flying buzzard was great but didnt have the same excitement as the peregrine. Pretty quiet here again ,watched a couple of kestrels hovering in mid air , a Raven sitting in a tree in the distance ,I wanted him to get up and put on a show of  ariel acrobatics .Lots of Mippits and a solitary swallow.Lovely hot day ,felt more like the height of summer.Weather has been good all week now in fact ,are we pushing our luck now? Is it going to snow tommorow?