Gorton Ressers again, 13.5.2025.

 Went to the Gorton lower ressers again yesterday to see how the Grebes were getting on.

It was a nice warm sunny day again, we are certainly getting our share of the weather in Manchester at the moment!.

How lucky to have this on my doorstep.

The female is still sat on the nest and no sign of any babies yet.

The resident male swan was chasing an interloper all round what he regards as his territory.

All fluffed up and ready to stand up to anything threatening his mate.

The coot chicks I mentioned on my last post are doing well and staying near mum. 

Mum was taking sticks out of the nest and rearranging them, didn't seem much wrong to me but perhaps she was showing the chicks how it's done, perhaps that's my over active imagination though. 

Still a bit of colour in the nest.

Soon take to the water, faces only a mother could love!.

Starting to get some Canadian geese chicks now

If you see these geese with lots of chicks they might not belong to the adult with them, because they have a creche system and they all take turns to guard the brood!.  

Very large thirsty dog having a drink!.

Back home, in the evening it was a clear sky and this was the scene from my back door.

Though the very large conifers.

Then zoomed in!.

Alfie is eating well at the moment, must be the warm weather giving him plenty of energy, you wouldn't thing a small tortoise could eat all that would you, but he does, he is now 724 Grams, so put on 100 grams since I got him. 

Jackdaw, they just love fat balls!.

 Today me and the gang went to Dunelm stores at the Snipe again instead of our usual Morrison's on Tuesdays it was very nice and not as busy as our first venture there on Saturday.

We ordered our food separately and whilst we had our drinks and chats the food arrived piping hot within about 10 minutes and very nice it was too. The only thing was they don't do a side order of chips, they said they do waffle chips but were out of them today, might try them next time.

They do hot meals as well, but who wants that on hot days anyway!.

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