Down in the fields, streams and ditches…
In September my thoughts turn to wildfowl, to early season flights and walked-up outings on the farm and down into the marshes where the brackish Solway backwaters flood. This seems to have been a good season for mallard, and there were big broods of young from the end of April to midsummer.
Conditions were extremely dry in the spring and local rivers shrank to a
