Sunday 28 September 2008

Seeing the Changes 144


Lots of Starling (Sternus vulgaris) roosting on telephone wires at Bynea. Also active ground beetles (Pterostichus nigrita), living dangerously as a Grass snake basked on the cycle path nearby.

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