Sunday 1 May

Bit of rain yet it was still a normal day for Harry Heron.

There are quite a few round the valley.

 Heron

Heron

Take Care & God Bless

Friday 8 May

Dry morning the sort you could walk for hours

Big Lodge View

Some in flower on the Rucks Hawthorn - Crataegus monogyna

Harry Heron waiting for Breakfast on the Top Lodge

 

Large Bittercress - Cardamine amara

Welsh Poppy - Meconopsis cambrica

Take Care

Friday 27 February

Good Morning, it was cool and dry.

 The Heron was also waiting for the frogs behind the Top Lodge again

More open flowers on the Lesser Celandine - Ficaria verna

Still expecting the frogs as the weather is good this a favourite spot - The Channel from the Weir

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

Take Care

Sunday 8 February

Just below freezing again

Noticed that Garden Privet  - Ligustrum ovalifolium still had a few berries left.

Damp mist

Harry Heron looking for breakfast

 Meg waiting for the slow coaches - you can almost read her mind come my breakfast is next.

 Common Polypody - Polypodium vulgare up in the branches of a tree.

Lichen & Moss almost covering the tree

Take Care

Saturday 17 January

Below freezing

Sunny Brow

 

Big Lodge

 

Nuthatch

 

Heron on the Small Lodge

 

Take Care

Saturday 10 January

Windy with rain in the air, very mild.

 Field Rose Hip - Rosa arvensis not many left on

Harry Heron trying his luck at the weir ladder

 Ivy - Hedera helix berries not ripe but the birds are taking them

Charlie Robin watching me put seed on the feeding post

Take Care

Tuesday 6 January

Cold feet again and I mean Harry the Heron

Take Care

Sunday 4 January

Below freezing this morning

 We were soon spotted by the regulars and some extra visitors

 They are soon feeding

Just a few photos as we walked the path

 

Harry Heron was still fishing in the river

 

We have been looking for the Shoveler for days, others have seen her, she was on the Small Lodge this morning being picked on by the Mallards, she is so fast that she avoids most of them.

Take Care

29 & 30 & 31 December

29th Dec: Cold this morning

 I love the way frost forms

Sunny Brow

30th: A good clear morning

 Another marker near the small pond no number, still no answers about them

The Weir Channel showing the overflow channel back into the river

 

In the River was Harry Heron

31st: Walked over to the derelict Ellerbeck Colliery site today

This is Eller Brook from which the old colliery was named, will do a separate blog in the new year

Take Care

Sunday 21 December

A mild morning

 

Waiting for us

New feed is a hit with everyone 

 Tiny waterfall into the Yarrow

 Down by Sunny Bridge this morning

 Female Chaffinch

Male Chaffinch

A few of the birds that came to eat

Take Care