Bog Myrtle & Peat

Just thought that it would be worth mentioning that I spotted the first wheatear chicks up and about two days ago. I only just managed to take  this photograph of one of the three chicks before it vanished into the long grass this evening on the way down from the hill. It’s funny that, like so many young birds, you can spot them thanks to their short tails and lumbering flight, but while this bird looks nothing like an adult female or male, it showed a very prominent white bottom in flight.

I wish this little blighter the best of luck, and I can’t help wondering if he would be around at all if I hadn’t spent the last six months trapping weasels and stoats along the stretch of dyke where he was hatched.