With
the dire wet miserable weather and constant cloudy gloom here I thought I would enliven
things a bit with some random images of better times.
These two inseparable Hebden Bridge geese were always there on the canal towpath but I am sorry to say they seem to have gone now. Probably been eaten! Would be a bit tough though as they had been there a few years.
Kestrel parent taking off to find food.
Garden frog
Embarrassed
blackbird with a naked sparrow bathing
Hound
trailing – a favourite form of racing in Cumbria
Not the fisherman's friend - heron.
Mirror imagery
Fallow deer
Peacock
Kestrel
again on a darker day
Grouse
Young
kestrel contemplating the future
Goats
know no bounds
Heron
Coy roe deer
A tiny Shetland pony with Jedward hairstyle that used to survive in a scrubby paddock of ragwort.
Reminds me of the three flying pot ducks that used to adorn walls over fireplaces.
Ugly duckling or the odd one out!
Thrush recovering completely from a strike on a window pane.
Nice house!
Cormorant
Mr Toad
Heron resting on a stone in the River Holme
Standing tall
Definitely a wild rabbit, one of several that presumably cross-bred with a tame one?
Enjoying a nibble
OK so I like herons. Has a prehistoric look here I think.
Happy family
Fallow deer again - no they are not very local.
Distant
curlew
Grey squirrel, regarded by many as tree rats,
but they have personalities like the rest. They didn't ask to come here and now we are stuck with them, like it or not.
Passing
pheasant
They
amuse the dogs on our walks if nothing else.
Cock
pheasant garden visitor
Where
the bee sucks etc.
Brown
hare enjoying summer sunshine
Garden
frog
Bit
different from the rest – 'Cow Wash'
Another
tease for the dogs
Young kestrels yet to fly, mulling it over.
Thoughtful baby
It
will snow the week before Easter!
Disaster struck while doing this. The dogs raided the fridge so my dinner, (and much else), has gone.
