PhotoDiary :: Editing diary entry 99

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Content Our daily walks along the old Strawberry line nearly always include something of interest. There is a small meadow which occupies the corner between Kings Wood and Winscombe Tunnel cutting. In spring, young rabbits sunbathe in the adjoining briar patch and in summer, when the meadow has just been mown, the air is full of swallows and martins, swooping and diving to streak along the length of the field just a few inches off the ground. We were completely engaged in watching one such aerobatic display when suddenly we became aware that all the birds had disappeared and we were gazing at an empty field. We looked up to see a hawk flying powerfully overhead and, as we watched, a buzzard came swooping in at speed, attacked the hawk and drove it off. It was a **fast** flyer and before it disappeared from sight, we recognised the distinctive sickle-shaped wing outline of a peregrine falcon. This is the meadow, nothing special ... except for the rabbits, songbirds, foxes, butterflies, dragonflies, peregrine falcons, etc. etc. And some grass seedheads from in Kings Wood. Ngaio reckons it may be a form of Bent grass, I suppose we shall have to start being a little more discerning about our grasses as well. Enter the content of the posting
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Grass seed heads

The small field