Sunday, 2 June 2019

Canal Walk

We took a walk along the canal the other evening when the sun came out after a shower.
Lots and lots of yellow wild iris, a mother duck with some little ducklings - and some young people swimming in the lock, it must have been freezing!
When the ducklings came over to the side of the canal where we were, they seemed to find great grazing on the algae growing on the houseboat. I was wondering if you could hear them from the inside.










I spotted these flying pigs - just for you, Lorraine. It's an old, possibly Georgian, office building which is being renovated into shared office spaces with a restaurant and bar. The workmen are still beavering away, so the windows are somewhat dusty. I think this is going to be the bar.

Allium time again - as always, they grow in plantings along the roadside, coming up after the daffodils and tulips have gone.





Saturday, 1 June 2019

May Favourites

and a juvenile robin from last June for my header this month. I've seen plenty of adult robins at the feeders, and we were highly entertained by one who pulled up an exceedingly long worm after a thunderstorm last Monday, and then struggled to get airborne with it. So there must be fledgelings around somewhere, but I haven't seen them yet.