May goeth on

Eighteenth of May

Back garden rose
You'll probably get a lot of these 'cause I like roses

Still on the nest
You'll probably get a lot of these 'cause I like grebes




Guess the flower
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'tis

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Not a dandelion but common hawkweed





This is the largest coot brood I've seen





Proud mama

Dad was between the kids and the footpath keeping folk at bay




Ribwort plantain

Swanlet

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Tuesday the Nineteenth of May

Two tits on the feeder




Stroppy looking tit




Mummy with twelve (TWELVE!) chicks

On the nest
There's no way that I know of telling the gender of a great crested grebe: they take turns sitting on the eggs





All the family

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Wednesday the Twentieth of May

What’s in a name? that which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet;
(I did say that I like roses)

The pond

Extreme zoom to show that there's four eggs in the grebe's nest

Four's a lot for a grebe, at least as far as I know on the pond

Swan, swanlets and grebe

you can see the zoomage and croppage in the previous pic

The swan took a discrete path around the grebe's nest

Blue tit looking startled

There are at least three different families of tits being fed from here.

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Thursday the Twenty First of May

More rose!

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Friday the Twenty Second of May

Small mallard family




Still there




Dog rose




Mum on guard

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Sunday 10th of November

After the rain

Tenth of November 2019

I walked up the canal to the top pound to see what the rain had done up there.
A round trip of about nine miles

Map copyright © Google Maps and Mapmyfitness

Après le déluge
Blue skies

Canal west of Worksop

Muscovy at Wood End

A tad prettier than 'our' muscovy. 

Female?

(I like muscovies)

 

The rail bridge at Doefield Dun Lock:

Panorama of Shireoaks Woodland from Doefield Dun Lock.

(I like panoramas)

Lichen

(I like lichen)

Ivy fruit is great food for birds, especially blackbirds, when other sources have gone.

(I like ivy)

Ivy also provides a sunbathing nest for larger animals.

(I like cats)

Fungus - is it dead man's fingers?

(I like fungi)

Bramble flowers

(I like out of season flowers)

Many spotted ladybird

(I like insects)

I think that I shall never see 

A poem lovely as a tree.

Feeder Lock on the Chesterfield Canal

Isn't that beautiful?

Robin at Turnerwood

(Who doesn't like robins?)

Sunlight with midges

So difficult to photograph

Never before seen the overflow so violent

Pudding Dyke leaves the canal

I have walked across here dryshod in the Summer

This is Pudding Dyke entering the canal

Normally it flows in below the level of the canal's water.

After leaving the canal, Pudding Dyke goes on to feed lakes at Lindrick Dale and join Anston Brook to form the Ryton which flows through Worksop and on to join the Idle, the Trent and ultimately the Humber estuary into the North Sea.

Woody nightshade flaunts its toxic berries in the undergrowth.

The top pound is a must see on  the Chesterfield Canal

Autumn might be my favourite season.

Trees across the canal just above Cinderhill.

(I like trees - especially in Autumn)

A tree in the canalside hedgerow picked out by the sun

A kingfisher glimpsed momentarily across the canal
(I love kingfishers)

Panorama of a newly ploughed field at four o' the afternoon.
(I like panoramas)




Pondorama
(I really like panoramas)


And so home.

All pictures and videos copyright © Roger T Bunting except where stated otherwise.

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