Yesterday (Wednesday) went down the Vale, not been for a few weeks as the weather has been too hot for me!.
First to be seen was two cormorant's on the lower mill pond,
From a distance they look all black, but close to they are quite colourful.
These baby mallards are cute!
Top mill pond was quite full of wildlife.
There you go heron, swan and mallards all on one picture.
Then dad came down to see what all the fuss was about.
And it was me feeding Mum and the five babies.
This is a male mandarin, those with all the beautiful colours , but he's done his job for this year so its back to being like the females, you can still tell them apart by their colourful beak!.
Female mallards preening.
It was amusing watching the squirrels trying to get to the monkey nuts ahead of the crows
Didn't have much chance though.
Throw some a bit nearer mate!.
The pigeons are always at it aren't they.
This Little Grebe struggling though the algae, which is everywhere at the moment with no rain to help the water flow.
Back home bought a clematis "Josephine" which died on me at the end of last year.
So this one is going onto the trellis on the right there.
Son John sent me this picture of his cockerpoo Max.
Was at the Bridge View café today, it was full to bursting with my mate Christopher singing today.
