…and seeing it leads to another’s life!
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The last act of magnificence for a wild partridge, as its carcass lies strewn around this stand of gorse bushes.
Quite possibly this was an older bird, tired from the long breeding season and intense heat.
The marks suggest that it fell prey to a fox, which in turn will be feeding its own young with the life giving meat.
As ever in the ecology, one death leads to another’s life and so the great wheel keeps turning.
At the end of the day, the last rays of the sun seem to reanimate the feathers into a shimmering testament to its time here on the mountain.
Photo: Partridge feathers on Gorse. Courtesy of the author.