Nothing Interesting

It was nice to wake up to sunshine this morning after having spent a rather cold and wet Easter at Beverley, but apart from the weather it was nice to spend time with Cliff and Margaret, who are excellent hosts. My travelling companion was Cliffs’ brother Kenny who kindly did the driving. We were rerouted due to an accident on the A66 which took us through the north Yorkshire Dales which would have been very pleasant any other time but when you want to get from A to B quick as possible it was a bit of a bind. We arrived but unfortunately the weather made photography rather difficult.....

......but I did like this one of Beverley Market Place

It was my turn to fill the feeders at the moorland station this morning and Tootlepedal kindly accompanied me and after filling the feeders  we spent some time in the hide hoping for something interesting to come along, but as busy as it was nothing interesting came along. 

It was nice to see some frog spawn appear in the little pond that was created adjacent to the hide.

After lunch I took a run out locally to see if I could make use of the good weather and get some local landscape shots on the Sorbie road which connects the Ewes valley with Westerkirk.

These are the results

Not Much Action.

Due to the dataminers being a little bit less active this month due to the cold weather, I've been concentrating on putting church magazines on to the Archive Website. I phoned Tootlepedal to see if I could pop down and pick up some more magazines and he said I could and there would be coffee and treacle scones waiting for me courtesy of Dropscone. I didn't stay too long and left them to continue with their conversation, it was also good to see Tootle pedal is recovering well from his latest injuries. Before I left we arranged to go for a stroll in the afternoon.

Tootlepedal picked me up at the arranged time then we headed up to the bird feeders to see if  there was much action, but there wasn't.

Bird on the Wire

Chaffinch looking hungerly at one of the feeders.

decisions, decisions.

After a brief twenty minutes we decided to go and view the snowdrops at Holmhead. We stopped off at the Kilngreen as Tootlepedal wanted to try and get a shot of a flying seagull.....

........but most of them were perched on a fence post each enjoying the sunshine.

Mr drake admiring his reflection .

 Tried to capture the crop of cones on the higher branches but doesn't quite work

The light on the trees along the Lodge Walks was quite striking.

A change from a flying bird.

Good to see estate workers planting new hardwood trees.

Holmhead snowdrops

Holmhead

An attractive section of wall

 I just loved the silhouette of the holy leaves on the trunk.

More felling

Getting prepared to regenerate.

Inspector Moss.

Through the tunnel

A feeble attempt at macro.

This seriously needs addressed.

It's been a day for sunlit trees

A burning bush

Onward and downward.

We returned to the car and Tootlepedal kindly took me home.

Good Friends

We woke to another day of dullness and what seems like perpetual rain.  After a light breakfast I went to take my turn at the moorland feeder station, I hurriedly filled the feeders and made a hasty retreat  home, wanting to get out of the wet as quickly as possible.

On my return I stopped to take a shot of this recently erected structure through the car windscreen, possibly a communication tower

I quickly checked my rain gauge when I got home and saw it needed to be reset.....

.....which I did.

At lunchtime I jumped on the X95 to Carlisle to meet up with my friend Graham for long overdue catch up, Graham is much like Tootlepedal, he can impart some good and timely advice when needed but also good company and always cheerful. We met up and had a light lunch with refreshments and put the world to rights as one does.  A good afternoon was had.