Something different

05/05/2010 by Aileen.

We went to a new venue for Birding today. An organic farm. From the car park we saw two deer, and on setting off along the (small) River Hull I saw a trout leaping out of the water. Not sure who else saw it, as I didn’t hear any oohs and aahs, but I’ve never seen anything like it before.

We also had really good close-up views of hares. But the main focus of the morning was the heronry. Herons nest high up in trees, a bit like rooks do. I don’t think I’ll put a photo up as the ones I took showed twigs across the herons’ bodies. But it was a really interesting thing to see. I can’t make up my mind over whether herons are clumsy or graceful.

At the end of the morning we had homemade grub from the farm shop/café. We sat in a circle in the sun, and it was the warmest day we’ve had so far.  Really enjoyable.

Monday evening was enjoyable too, but it was freezing. Only four Viewfinders turned up for the Fish Trail in Hull Old Town.

http://www.realyorkshire.co.uk/thedms.aspx?dms=13&venue=2171675&feature=2

In the end we didn’t actually follow the fish trail, but wandered around snapping anything that took our fancy. Hull was a really prosperous place years ago, and there are some wonderful old buildings, but it was bombed badly in the war, and ugly new places intersperse the Victorian ones. Not just Victorian, there are some much older buildings. Can’t think of their dates, but OLD.

I’ll put up a photo of an old church reflected in the glass of a modern building, and the same church reflected in the window of a pub.

While I’m at it I’ll put up a couple more photos from the Dawn Walk, as people were saying nice things about the ones on Michael’s blog.

http://www.eybirdwatching.blogspot.com/

Here come the photos.

Hares on the organic farm

 Reflections - the old in the new.

More from the Dawn Chorus walk.

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