Tuesday, 25.7.23.

 It was down to Pear Mill café to met friends yesterday and straight home though the showers!.

Today Tuesday it was better weather and went down to Reddish Vale park thinking I would have trouble getting a parking place with the kids off school, but to my amazement the car park was nearly empty!.

First thing I noticed was an extra mural on the info centre!.

That's a tree creeper I think.

Then it was over to the lower mill pond and there just inside the gate was the moorhen family, they must enjoy the peace and quiet.

I was going to see if the little Grebes on the top mill pond were still there from my visit on Friday, but the shrubs along the path to them was more overgrown. I could manage that but further along the muddy path was completely waterlogged, ankle deep, so it was back to the main path again.

Luckily for me they were in the middle of the pond so was able to snap them there.

The mum was trying to sleep but this chick kept bumping into her to wake her up, must have thought it was meal time again. Was funny watching them, mum was sleeping and the baby kept bumping into her, it was like those curling stones one sees on the ice at the Olympics bumping into each other.

Go to sleep, it's not dinnertime yet!.

Dad wasn't getting involved.

Further along just spotted these Terrapins, though nearly missed them as they were well camouflaged with all the algae on them. 

They were on the far side of the pond and my zoom doesn't do justice to their size!.  

The crows had all the biscuits today. 

Well some did, others lost out.

So Squirrel Nutkin had to do with some Monkey nuts, think he was quite happy with them.

Plenty of Great Tits about too.

 There was the mallard family there too, getting quite big now, almost as big as mum.

Spotted these terrapins on the strip in the middle of the lower pond, it's amazing the number of people that miss them.

Round to Sunnyside pond then to see if the Kingfishers were about, but no luck with that, though there was plenty of mandarins about.

Quite cute in their own way though not as colourful as the males in breeding season.

So then it was off for dinner, as the rain started again!!, off to Morrisons and guess what for David? and some shopping by the time I came out the rain had stopped.

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I rang up the phone company to report a nuisance caller , they said "Not you again".

How do you get a hippie out of the bath?,

Turn the water on!.

Answering machine message,

If you want to buy Marijuana press the Hash key!.

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