Can't wait for the smell of wild garlic down by the stream, won't be long now guaranteed to put me in a good mood. Anything out there that makes you feel happy lads and lasses?....anything?
Apart from that lasses barely covered bulging chest on the plane yesterday, I'd say a cracking run along the river weaver and canal on a sunny late spring morning when it's a vibrant green everywhere
Do you spot the Hoopoes on the way to the pub or on the way back?
There was a lovely pied blackbird down the lane a few years back.
Found out mate. The hoopoe was a photo on a mates phone from N-u-L.
The rest were spotted/heard in the St9 area as I wobbled from pub to boozer.
Got a blackbird at me folks that looks like an Ouzel with it's vicars collar.
Last year we had wrynecks and wheatears too. Not yet though.
Grey wagtail today.
The blackbird down the lane was definitely a pied blackbird. I had to look it up I had no idea they existed. I don't think they last long though unfortunately.
I've seen a number of lapwings locally this year though nothing like the numbers I used to see in my youth. Guaranteed to put a smile on my face. A few years ago I was driving down the lane, therefore completely sober, and could have sworn a Golden Oriole flew across the path. It was the right time of year but not the right part of the country.
Local increase in lapwings apparently because it's been too wet to do any ploughing/turning over etc. Hopefully the conditions will bring a boom in ground nesting birds. Skylarks etc.
Local increase in lapwings apparently because it's been too wet to do any ploughing/turning over etc. Hopefully the conditions will bring a boom in ground nesting birds. Skylarks etc.
Get up park lane and along ladderidge lots going on
Local increase in lapwings apparently because it's been too wet to do any ploughing/turning over etc. Hopefully the conditions will bring a boom in ground nesting birds. Skylarks etc.
Get up park lane and along ladderidge lots going on
Yeah Harry I often do. And there is. Lovely neck of the woods.
Been stalking the Mollatts Wood Heronry again. Terradactyls about to fledge.
Interesting week on the wildlife front. I rescued a collared dove on Tuesday I found it at the bottom of the drive looking bedraggled but with no obvious injury apart from a small cut on it's foot. I put it on the bird table and it part recovered after several hours and then hung around the garden for the next few days feeding and drinking. The day after I found it our friendly neighbourhood hawk came to take a look but the Spitfire squadron of swallows went into action and escorted it off the property. They make an incredible racket when the hawk is about.
I have used a watering hole by the name of The Silver Birch in the past
Me too. As well as the Globe, the Crown, the Halfway, the Vine and the 3 WMC's as were. Occasionally all in the one night. :-)
Are you not forgetting that place with the monkey tree?
I remember walking back to my grandmother's house with her one evening and she told me to get her a couple of bottles of Mackeson from the outdoor at the Halfway House. The landlord told me to go and do a runner when I said who it was for until the old dear popped her head round the door to see what was taking so long.
Me too. As well as the Globe, the Crown, the Halfway, the Vine and the 3 WMC's as were. Occasionally all in the one night. :-)
Are you not forgetting that place with the monkey tree?
I remember walking back to my grandmother's house with her one evening and she told me to get her a couple of bottles of Mackeson from the outdoor at the Halfway House. The landlord told me to go and do a runner when I said who it was for until the old dear popped her head round the door to see what was taking so long.
There used to be a decent jukebox at the Globe
I never went in there. Just past Park Site. I forgot the name anyway! What was it?
Off an on I used to use the Globe when Freda ran it in the '70s. It was me supplied the Deep Purple, Hawkwind and AtomicRooster singles for the Juke. :-)
