In Debdale park this weekend, 20-21st August 2022.

In Debdale park this weekend, 20-21st August 2022.

First thing we noticed was that a new path had been put in since the last time we had been.

Looking towards the rose garden.

Though the nature centre office was closed for the weekend the gardens and coffee shop was still open and WiFi still available!.

Juvenile Great Tit.

Adult great Tit.

Was nice just sat there watching the magpies burying the monkey nuts we had bought, then watching the Squirrels following them and digging them up again.

Throw some food down guys, you know us Dunnocks are ground feeders.

Blue Tit doing it's acrobatics.

The friendly Robins.

The Coal Tit is very quick and hard to snap.

Blue Tit.

The nature garden was looking very colourful.

Story tellers throne, all sorts going on in the nature centre.

Fancy seeing you here!.

Plenty of these beautiful little Long tailed Tits about on the day.

We took a lot of pictures of these, but they are very cute aren't they.

Colourful Nuthatch.

Sitting down on the job.

Can't believe how quick the nights are drawing in now, 9-00pm and its dark already!. 

A bit of good news for a change.

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Week 15th -18th.8.22.

 Been to Pear Mill café today with Pepe, it's his favourite place, only because he gets his own plate of sausage.

It's one of our groups birthday this coming Saturday so we celebrated that today as we wouldn't see him on the Saturday.

He had his wife and Cockerpoo Miss Daisy with him, Miss Daisy is a lot calmer as she is 4 years old now.

After my Sight test at SpecSavers mentioned in my last post, I'm still getting junk mail from them!!, today's post asking me to book an appointment for a hearing test, which I had in June!, the service is excellent but the junk and e-mails are a pain in the butt.

Had Pepe washed and cut this week and whilst there had my usual bacon buttie and coffee at the café up the road, very tasty!.

I managed to get a picture of the Super moon the other night, so was pleased about that.

Mate Bob says there are two new craters on the moon and was wondering how they got there!.

I'm sure if it was a rocket from here the observer's round the world would have noticed it, but it is strange though isn't it.

The kids are still  off school but at least some of them putting the time to good use learning a new skill.

The zoom on my camera captured these young girls feeding the swan family at the far end of the water, not bad for a bridge camera, hand held without a tripod hey.

The water level getting back to normal, after the workers finished.

Junior is now nearly as big as Mum.

Plenty of young Gulls about at this time of year.

This one nearly got its adult plumage.

Seagull??, bet this ones never seen the sea, live on the tips don't they.

Adult Coot, quite aggressive to other birds. 

My front garden is doing well with all the 

different types of Fuchsia's surviving the lack of rain for weeks. 

Yes I can see the big weed, they seem to do well whatever the weather don't they, it's not there anymore!!.

Front wall.

Dividing wall too next door

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In case we get another heat wave, bear this in mind!.

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Visit to SpecSavers, 10.8.22.

Been to SpecSavers inside Sainsbury’s (DENTON) today for my two yearly sight test, Better than Hyde branch as no parking fee!. 

The test was very good and my sight is exactly the same as last year!, which proves that plastic doesn't deteriorate with age!. 

Also had the added OCT test which was an extra £10, but worth it as it's like a full body scan of the eyes, which proved to be ok too, so was worth the money for the piece of mind, the young chap said he hoped his eyes would be as good at 84 years old, but as I said plastic lens don't deteriorate, perhaps I should leave them for recycling when I pop my clogs hey

Didn’t take Pepe out at all today, he is struggling with his thick coat.

Picture shows the way dogs lap their water!, the other is with his cool towel on yesterday at the park.

So if you thought they lapped with their tongue forward this shows its backward, that's if you didn't already know.

This youngster likes feeding the birds but only from a distance.

 The weather yesterday was very hot and muggy, sat here under the shade of the trees

I was surprised to see that the water level was down by about two feet from the day before, but asked some workers there and they said they had had it lowered so they could work on the overflow, thank goodness for that I thought, thinking hose pipe bans and all!.

The Swan family came to investigate too.

Junior doing well and nearly as big as Mum and Dad.

Young Robin just starting to get it's red breast.

The young Great Crested Grebes are getting as big as Mum and Dad too.

Look how big I am now!!

As you can see I'm trying to get off the cameras Auto settings.

That looks good on a very hot day.

Coal Tits in the nature centre.

Nuthatch in classic pose.

A new innovation in the nature centre is this Free little library, bring, borrow, share or swap

A lady and her daughter I spoke to on the day took our photograph with my camera, so you could see who is writing this drivel!

My favourite seat near to the bird feeders, it's in the shade too for Pepe.

Dunnock.

OHH Shit!

The story telling Centre complete with throne.

The Rose garden just inside the gates.

The outdoor table tennis table has had the base lengthened this week they must have seen some of the more serious players standing well back to play.

Back home more of the camera settings tried!, with this Magpie struggling with a feeder.

As you can see the berries are coming on well on my bushes, that's the food for the winter birds.

This young sparrow more interested with the peanuts.

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