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I find the richness of these adventures lingers with me for years. I still feel happy about that 2018 trip, and have layered on more happiness and good memories now.

Also a kestrel dismembering a mouse.

@Tontkowalski Doubt it, this is a nature reserve by a former fish processing plant in Lisbon where everything seems pretty plentiful. More like the heron was being an opportunist.

@gardenrichard There is nothing cute about nature is there 🤣

One of the golden rules of bird photography is to make sure the eye is crystal clear. But that’s harder to follow in some cases…

@LegendofLawes Our whole site was wrecked.

@paulie_paulie Thank you. It looks mostly like we will be able to unscrew everything and then piece it back together as the timber all seems to be intact. The bracing that I put in clearly wasn’t enough and we will improve the way it is secured on the ground too. Could be worse