A New Season Begins

7.00 am on the side of the hill over looking Diggle, in fact over looking several of the Saddleworth villages, the 2013-14 season began, or at least the first of the early morning pre-season meets did, which is more or less the same thing...

A bit damp to begin with, and breezy, but after a lot of rain the day and night before it seemed as if there was plenty of scent around.

 A bit of a "noisy" picture, but it was only just after 7 am and the sun hadn't really got up so the light was appalling, still, with a bit of fiddling about in "Lightroom" these are passable, at least I think they are....

 This hare happened to pass me by close enough to get a few shots off, given how poor the light was at the time I am quite pleased how these turned out....

And especially this one...

 The ladies keeping an eye on things...

 A distant whip..

Time for home........

A cracking start to the season, it has been a very long summer after all.....

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