Out today at Harewood on a beautiful day roadtesting my new camera. Was expecting lots of red kites - which there were - but came across this lovely buzzard too. Nice to see one quite close to see the markings on the underwing and to see how different it looks in the air from the kites.
Saw a movement out of the corner of my eye and thought it was a long tailed tit - to my amazement it was a bat - a pipistrelle, I think. It was 2.30 in the afternoon and really bright sunshine. It was flapping around near a stream for a few minutes and then disappeared. I saw it again further up the track, this time being chased by a red kite. Thankfully the kite was not agile enough and the bat escaped...
And I couldn't come back from Harewood without at least one red kite picture, so here it is!
