This photograph of a skylark with a beak full of insect for its brood was taken on the former RAF Woodhall Spa airfield in Lincolnshire. In WW2 this flat area of, essentially, lowland heath, was once a place where the ground and skies were crowded with Avro Lancaster four-engine bombers engaged in the bombing of occupied Europe. It then became a place where gravel was dug resulting in large stretches of open water and smaller pools. Today it is a nature reserve in the making and the skies are now filled with greylag geese, skylarks, black-headed gulls, little egrets, buzzards and much more. The obliging bird pictured above posed perfectly, allowing me to get off six hand-held shots, all of which were pretty sharp.
photo © T. Boughen Camera: Nikon P900
