As is usually the case, it was a dull and showery here in Manchester, there again they didn't call it the Rainy City for nothing, may have been an asset in the old days of cotton weaving but we don't need it now thank you!.
Today it was a ride down to Reddish Vale, if you've not been before or for a long time, here is the opening times of the info centre for drinks and snacks, as there are always people asking why it's not open.
The Tearoom Café at the farm zoo doesn't seem to be opening since the pandemic, perhaps staff problems or making enough in the farm.
As I got there it started to rain again!, wouldn't you know it, so this photo of the heron on Sunnyside pond isn't too bad considering it's taken though the rain.
There was a chap sat there with his camera on a tripod, think he was hoping for a picture of a Kingfisher, but had no luck and moved off without a word!.
He should have been more patient has 10 minutes later my friend and his wife spotted one, as if flew to the branches no more that 12 feet from where the chap had been set up!.
Then it flew to the other side of the pond and other joined it in the bushes but I couldn't get a picture of that, hopefully its a female for the male pictured.
The heron was changing its position every now and then, but didn't seem to have any luck fishing today.
This one was following me round the park, with a monkey nut in its mouth.
The duck house still not got any residents yet.
Didn't stay too long today, learned from my last visit when I stayed too long and got wet though.
So off to Morrisons for the usual Fish and chips, it was a disaster on Friday, as the freezers were broke down so no Fish and Chips!.
So another wet Bank Holiday weekend, feel sorry for the workers don't you, though Pear Mill Café was open on the Monday and doing a roaring trade with the weather outside, so it's swings and roundabouts isn't it.
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