Everything is Permuted

All the photos in this post will enlarge if you click on them. And you may need to, because otherwise you might just not see anything at all.

The day started out in the fields near work. I'd gone in search of deer, but they were being evasive. I started to take a few landscapes of the early morning light when, deep in the valley, I saw a... Well without the benefit of the lens I would barely have seen anything at all.



Small, distant and tucked away in the shadows, it was nonetheless unmistakeably a fox. I edged a little closer and if you were doubtful from that first image, this should confirm things. Like Stumpy, the garden fox, this one also seems to have a somewhat truncated brush :



I returned to the same spot at lunchtime. Well you never know your luck, but of course the fox was nowhere to be seen. A few of the smaller birds were disappearing in and out of the hedgerow, and overhead a jay crossed the sky.



I got some nice close-ups of robins, but the main event once again played out on the far side of the valley. A lone buzzard came in low across the fields, attracting the attention of a pair of crows who proceeded to chase it away from their territory.

Across the field they chased

Past the horses

Along the woods

Until the buzzard emerges over the next field

And sweeps away across the open countryside

Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 40D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.