Bowood 2014 #24

I just got in under the wire before they closed the gates, and just had time for a circuit of the grounds, starting with Tractor Ted's and Big Pig. There was also a new 6-day old Aberdeen Angus called Molly who made loud moo-ings every time she caught sight of the handler, and four very tame hand-reared lambs who had been rejected by their mother.

There was lots of colour on the terraces outside Bowood House, and I was tempted to blip a garden blip, but as it relatively unusual for there to be a rowing boat on the Lake, I went with this shot of two anglers returning to the Boat House, in striking light. They'd caught me trying to get a candid shot of them on the lake a couple of minutes earlier - this is a problem with long lenses; you can't pretend to be taking something else!

I saw a pair of great crested grebes on the lake with two young. This time they were swimming behind one of them, and not hitching a ride on their backs.

L.
7.7.2013 (1635 hr)

Blip #1312
Consecutive Blip #174
Day #1551

Alternatives:
Lake Field From The Gardens
Bowood Grounds And Lake

Lenses: Pentax 17-70 mm, Pentax 35 mm Macro, Pentax 55-300 mm x1.4 converter

Bowood 2014 series
Bowood series
Bowood 2013-2014 (Flickr collection)(Work in progress)

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler -- Belle Starr (2006, probably recorded years earlier)
(written by Emmylou Harris)

One year ago: Bowood 2013 #17 (Hare)