May Bank holiday weekend, 2021.

 Friday, hadn't realised it was a Bank Holiday weekend, as all weekends are a holiday when your retired aren't they!. so after a bacon buttie at the Snipe Retail park had a visit to the Ashton Moss nature reserve where we saw some Reed buntings and a Muscovy Duck with his two mates.

Reed Buntings

Not sure what the one in the foreground is!

Muscovy Ducks. 

Fancy pigeon.

Saturday we went to Debdale again and was relived to see that all five of the Canadian Geese chicks we had seen in our previous post were still alive and well.

We had thought it was too cold to go round the park so went round the Lower Reservoir has it was more sheltered in the trees. On our walk there we saw these three baby Coots and their parents busy feeds them.

What's for dinner Mum. 

Getting the greens from the lake bottom.

Preening can't start soon enough even at this tender age.

Ugly but cute.

Afternoon lessons.

Who loves yeh baby"!.

A Black headed gull.

Have been looking for the Terror-Pins that the litter pickers mentioned at the top end of the lake but that was earlier on when it was warmer, think they have all gone back indoors until it get's warmer again.

Will keep looking.

The Great Crested Grebes don't seem to be doing much in their nests yet, perhaps they are waiting for better weather hey!.

It doesn't look a very good weather forecast for Bank Holiday Monday with heavy rain showers forecast, but looking on the bright side it only needs the wind to change a couple of degrees for it all to be different again, so fingers crossed!.

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Don't you just love nature, despite what it did to you!

Time is a great healer, but a lousy beautician.  

The invisible man married an invisible woman, but their kids were nothing to look it!

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