Winter woods seen through the eyes of a buzzard

Wenlock Edge, Shropshire I like these muddy colours in the landscape, but the buzzard sees them far more intensely A buzzard perches on the high branch of a leafless tree. With its back to me, it looks out on the same scene, but do we see the same thing? I see through the trees to fields chemically enhanced with the vivid greens of new crops. The old landscape under this December sky is a brown study: a mood induced by hedges, ash keys, muddy paths, the woods bare and misty-headed with reddish a