12 June 2020

Final May Blog

Last of May

Friday the Twenty Ninth of May


Still on the nest



The canal's full of fish



Moon at ten past seven





Saturday the Thirtieth of May


Blackbird basking in the afternoon sun




Back garden roses



The pond




Mum and dad at the nest


Parent and child with a fly for lunch


Bramble flower



Tiny flower - I know not what!


Raspberry ripening


Dog rose



Moon at ten past ten






Sunday the Thirty First of May


Young starling reaching for fatballs the hard way


First view of the next generation



The nest 





Dad feeding the youngster



Mummy swan and the cygnets



Sparrow hunting insects on sun heated wall



Privet flower - pretty but smells a bit iffy!



This bee was delving in to a little clump of diseased cherry leaves




What's a Yorkshire rose doing in Worksop?



Bee harvesting nectar while pollinating a dog rose


Moon at ten past five ...



 ... and at ten past ten







09 June 2020

Last November

Nineteenth

A frosty morning around the pond at about ten o'clock.



Frozen dew


 
Dew frozen on a fallen leaf



 Titchy mushroom 



Gorse leaves



Not sure what this leaf is under all the ice, possibly bramble



A stinging nettle



Apples still hanging on!



Oxtongue




Fence post frost
spikey lines following the grain  of the growth lines




Autumnal tree on the rugby field



Did I mention that I like lichen?


Thistle flower



A couple of female goosanders on the pond
Goosanders visit in winter - up to ten or twelve on the pond at one time.

These handsome diving ducks are a member of the sawbill family, so called because of their long, serrated bills, used for catching fish. A largely freshwater bird, the goosander first bred in the UK in 1871. It built up numbers in Scotland and then since 1970 it has spread across northern England into Wales, reaching south-west England. Its love of salmon and trout has brought it into conflict with fishermen. It is gregarious, forming into flocks of several thousand in some parts of Europe
I've seen goosanders co-operating: forming a semicircle and all diving at once.




Seasonal robin


At any time of year swans are beautiful beasts



Eleven pics 'Hugined'




Cormorants visit quite rarely - here's one landing on the pond


My back garden sparrows