A Foggy Fenland Orchard

The last couple of days have been cold and  foggy and the orchards have been swathed in fog, lovely and atmospheric. The leaves are still clinging to the old Bramleys making for an autumnal scene but the Worcesters are completely bare now.

Such different views to that of the Idared apples at the beginning of the month

Great White Egret - Ardea alba

So yesterday as I was driving down the track next to the drain I spied a Great White Egret. It was actually in about the same place as I recently saw the grey heron so I suppose the hunting is especially good just there. According to the RSPB you're most likely to see the Great White Egret in Spring or Winter in the UK so I   consider myself lucky to have seen one so late into summer.

I'd love to say the this photograph of the egret was taken by me but it wasn't (image Paul Kehrer licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic). In fact it wasn't even taken in England but in the Palo Verde National Park, Costa Rica!
And I might as well confess that the image of the drain wasn't taken by myself either but by one of my son's, however it was taken in England.

More foxy goings on in the orchard - or another fox sighting in the orchard

Another wonderful fox sighting today around 4pm this time, it was about 2pm the other day. This time the fox and I were walking toward one another. He/she stopped, waited, watching to see if I would continue, which I did. Then the fox slowly sauntered down the side of the drain, (this is the Fens), popped over the water and up the other side of the drain into the field beyond.
As is so often the case I didn't have a camera with me so the image is courtesy of  Jonnmann Wikimedia Commons