{"id":3887,"date":"2017-06-06T21:19:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T21:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=3887"},"modified":"2017-06-06T21:19:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T21:19:59","slug":"eastern-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=3887","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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\u00a0A beautiful day in\u00a0early May complete with stunning scenery, blue sky, sunshine and a bike ride following the River Dunsop upstream from Dunsop Bridge to Whitendale.<\/p>\n

By a complete coincidence one of western Europe’s rarest migrating birds just happened to drop in at the former location of a pair of\u00a0 Eagle Owls last seen\u00a0several years ago. Normally a summer migrant arriving from Africa to Russia and the Ukraine a\u00a0Pallid Harrier had turned up in the Forest of Bowland. With Bowland being a blackspot for illegal persecution the opportunity to see a Pallid Harrier before it was blown out of the sky was too good to miss.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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A superb bird and a real pleasure to watch it.<\/p>\n

On this occasion with the bird spending most of its time well out of range a 420mm lens just wasn’t long enough. However,\u00a0the memory and a few record shots of a male Pallid Harrier nest building and hunting Meadow Pipits was more than sufficient……The bike ride wasn’t too shabby either !<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n