Tuesday 3 May

Quiet dry walk

Bridge Support Wall

 Cow Parsley - Anthriscus sylvestris almost in flower

One of my nestboxes - this has no camera in and the Blue Tits are nesting, I may be able to get some photos later as they develope.

An old stump in the Top Lodge, I do believe there is a Moorhen Nesting in there.

Terns are back, only one brave Gull on the Raft.

Percy Wood Pigeon, he's never far away when the food is out.

Take Care & God Bless

Sunday 15 March

Overcast & cool

Big Lodge

Car Park

 Cherry Plum - Prunus cerasifera always flowers just ahead of the Blackthorn

Finally found some frog spawn

Won't be long before the Terns return

One of last year'sTeasel - Dipsacus fullonum

This year's Teasel - Dipsacus fullonum just showing

Take Care

Sunday 15 February

We had a bit of frost over night but the sun was out this morning and it was a beautiful day.

 Big Lodge

 Tern rafts with Gulls for the moment

The River Yarrow, the sun was blinding through the trees

Take Care

Tuesday 13 January

Damp, Cool Morning

 Can't resist the sunrise over the lodge

Tern Rafts waiting for their residents to return - the gulls and other birds make good use of it during the rest of the year

 

Goosanders - males out numbering the females, they seem to avoid all human activity, especially me and the camera.

River Yarrow

 

Just peeping through, Russian Comfrey - Symphytum x uplandicum

 Hazel - Corylus avellana, just the male catkins no sign of the female flowers yet.

 Pendulous Sedge - Carex pendula

Spotted Dead Nettle - Lamium maculatum

Take Care

Sunday 23 November

A new swan landed and was given the usual welcome

The Swans are not happy with the newcomer - they never are

Deserted Tern Rafts, not often we see them like this, we wonder if the Hawks & Buzzards are about

A few views of the lodge

The intruder trying to get a little food before the next chase

The Shoveler Duck is still on the Small Lodge

Take Care

Tuesday 18 November

Grand morning and lots of photos, so I have picked a few today

 View from the 2nd Bridge of the river Yarrow

Misty Big Lodge

 Well used Tern Rafts

 Another misty view

 Crow trying to keep warm

 Another still flowering, Fox-and-cubs - Pilosella aurantiaca

Female Mallard

 Male Mallard

 Sunny Brow Sunrise

I love these little Tufted Ducks this is the male

The look always makes me smile

Take Care

Monday 17 November

Mild, damp morning with just enough sun to show the beauty of Autumn.

 Gulls making use of the Tern Raft, until the feisty Terns come again next year and reclaim it.

 This is the time of reflection, not only of the trees in the water but our selves

 to sit quietly and reflect on all things

 I find I sit reflecting on things past, looking back more & more, when young I looked forward, strange how we change as we age.

 I call this no2 bridge in the park, I love to look what is growing from the walls and banks

This White Dead Nettle - Lamium album will flower as long as possible - is there only me that grows this now

Take Care

Thursday 2 October

A glorious morning

 Mist rising from the Big Lodge

 Could not resist more photos of the Cormorant

 The now redundant Tern Raft being occupied by all the wildfowl

The swans preparing for the day

Take Care