Sunday Stroll

The sun was out the frost was crisp & everyone had snotty noses !!
Another terrific day for a stroll around Swanholme Lakes Nature Reserve, carefully looking for minute signs of life besides humans & dogs.

The trick is don't just look forward as you walk. As you enter Swanholme Lakes Nature Reserve, just stand for a couple of minutes & soak it up "ZONE" in. Then you start to notice the life that is buzzing around whatever the weather.The Herons standing perfectly still in frozen water always makes me shiver,the squirrels racing around above you it seems as they deliberatly throw things at you & chatter off as if they were laughing at their mischievous doings.
Here is a picture of some fresh FOX scat, probably left about 40-60 mins before we passed by.



The Lakes are still frozen over which attracts kids, so please warn your children about the dangers of the ice covered lakes.

SPACKTARDS are back

Or perhaps they just did'nt go away !! this here is a splendid OAK & for reasons known only to the SPACKTARDS they tried killing it by snapping branches, halfway sawing through branches & setting fire to their rubbish around the bottom of the Tree



Why they feel the need for such mindless destruction amazes me, SPACKTARDS !!





I have placed couple more links i thought might be of interest to everyone on the right under "sites i enjoy".
First one is the Natural England website with information on Swanholme Lakes Nature Reserve,
& the second one is another photo album by PaulJ well worth a peep at some awesome pictures in there.