Saturday 16 May

Good Morning for our walk

Fisherman on the Big Lodge

 Gate to Primrose Hill

 Pendulous Sedge - Carex pendula

 Pendulous Sedge - Carex pendula

 Pink Box in the Yarrow

 Rape - Brassica napus

 Swan Family

 Swan Family

 Welsh Poppy - Meconopsis cambrica

 Welsh Poppy - Meconopsis cambrica

Young Bullock

Take Care

Thursday 12 February

Cool damp morning, we walked up to the top of Primrose Hill as the young ranger had just taken two bullocks back to their field - the owner of the bullocks & pigs is no farmer his stock roams all over and is out in all weather, totally useless why do these people show no responsibility toward their animals.

 The ranger had propped the old gate up, it's seen better days so we hooked over the old hinge so that they can't push it over, well that's the theory.

 This was taken from the gate looking toward Coppull

 The Dipper was at the weir

 Common Orange Lichen - Xanthoria parietina (probably the only on I can ID)

This and others yet to be ID was prompted by Joan's  Blog

Heron on the back of the Top Lodge waiting for frogs coming to their breeding spots

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Friday 6 February

Cold morning, the temperature was dropping.

 Most of the lodge is frozen - there was just a patch against the trees where the swans and wildfowl are being fed, even the tern rafts are frozen in.

Primrose Hill Field

 Holly - Ilex aquifolium

Primrose Hill Gate

Pine in a local garden it's beautiful

Female Blackbird waiting for her breakfast, we have seen a lot of males in the area so she should have plenty of suitors, bet she already has one, Blackbirds seem to start early in the year.

Take Care

Thursday 25 September

We did the walk to Duxbury today, the paths are dry which is unusual for the area. First time I'd seen the new gate, this was a stile originally and it was awkward to get over when exiting the wood, the drop on the wood side meant that you had to pull yourself over, this is much easier for us old fogeys.

 Large trees in the Yarrow

 Burgh Lane South, this leads to Drybones

 Red Campion - Silene dioica

 Sheep in the field - I think she is saying who are you looking at 

Then I got the bored and tiresome look

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Wednesday 26 February

Once again too many photos so I have split them into groups.

We always enter the Valley down Sunny Brow as it is nearest to home, we arrive home from various directions depending on which way we have walked - we never have a plan we just go with our friends and what we want to look at.

Sunny Brow Gate

Looking Back Up Sunny Brow

 Clover - Trifolium on Primrose Hill, I think it could be White.

 Yarrow - Achillea millefolium

Always find some on Primrose Hill

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Monday 13 January

Damp again

The gate to Primrose Hill

 Weir 

 Dipper on the weir wall

 Birch Polypore

 The Great Crested Grebes seem to be in courting mood

 unfortunately there are three 

and this one took up this threatening pose as the third one approached.

Take Care

Wednesday 1 January

Happy New Year to Everyone

Did not see many people about this morning.

We walked down Burgh Lane South not one we do a lot now as we can't access the pond field.

 This was in the field and my first thought was who would be camping out under a piece of  tarpaulin, in a muddy field.

 I should have known as it is now the pig field, all the piglets came out of the tent, I felt sorry for them and I am glad the weather is not too bad. Not much of a life for them.

 Blue Tit

 Nuthatch

Just thought I would take a picture of the fence :)

Take Care

Sunday 15 December

Damp Mild Morning

 Top Lodge View

 Behind the fence is the Sluice Channel - one of the Kingfisher's favourite spots

 Footpath around the Big Lodge

 Another sunrise over the Big Lodge

 Hazel - Corylus avellana on the Rucks

Most of the trees in this copse are Hazel - Corylus avellana

One of the many gates on the park

Take Care