It's always nice to photograph something a bit different and my quest today was to return to an area on Dartmoor where I had seen Tree Pipits last year. I have already been twice before this year but not seen any but today I had immediate success with first one bird and then another in exactly the same tree that I had seen them before. Unfortunately this tree, although only about 9 feet tall doesn't give a good background and even though I took photographs, I wasn't entirely happy with the background. I walked down to another area on the side of the valley and I was very pleased to hear another bird displaying in the scattered low trees here. The background was now perfect and I sat with my back to to a massive granite boulder hoping that the bird would perch and display from the nearest bushy tree just in front..... and that's exactly what happened. I couldn't tear myself away, trying to get the very photographs possible. I am relatively pleased with the results today but I have come to learn that whenever I return to an area to try again I usually do better and hopefully when I go back tomorrow, as long as the weather isn't too bad, I should have more success.
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