there's a lot of them Llani - never seen the canal as full of fishOriginally Posted by Llani Boy
there's a lot of them Llani - never seen the canal as full of fish
Richard Taylor
"William Tell could take an apple off your head. Taylor could take out a processed pea."
Sid Waddell
The black death will soon thin them outthen less left to sustain our herons, kingfishers, otters through the winter months.
Don't roll with a pig in poo. You get covered in poo and the pig likes it.
Heard my first chiffchaff of the autumn on Saturday in some birch woodland just NW of Tintwistle. I was a bit surprised by this, so checked on the Derbyshire Ornithological Society website and there've been quite a few recorded locally over the past week or so.
3 young deer in our back garden, lovely little things but unfortunately they like to eat the tops off my wife's roses.
Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run
When i was in the Black Mountains at the weekend i spotted what appeared to be a very large Caterpillar. I was at a fair altitude (1500ft approx on the flanks of Charwel Fan).
It was a good 4 inches long. Seemed to be fairly furry/hairy. Thickly black and orange striped along the length of the body.
Any of our Welsh locals know what it might have been?
Fox moth caterpillar, see them quite high up on moorland but in cooler weather (now) they tend to be a bit slow and dopey. In a good year I have seen many hundreds on a run in the summer.
I call them hairy mingers, for no particular reason.
Don't roll with a pig in poo. You get covered in poo and the pig likes it.
Thank you Molehill... A check on Google and yes it was one of them...
Whilst out with the dogs this afternoon I saw this years first flock of Fieldfare wolfing down haws. I have never seen the hawthorn so laden with berries.
Hard winter ahead?
The Fieldfare feasting has reminded me that I must get out and gather a few pounds of Rosehips, for my syrup, before they start eating them too!
Visibility good except in Hill Fog
Out on todays bike ride I saw a large flock of starlings, the first one of this autumn.
Visibility good except in Hill Fog
Lots of (as in 15+) kites soaring around, sometimes just above the house roof. Others more purposeful with large twigs in their beaks, presumably building nests somewhere close by. (I may be less impressed next week if they start trying to steal my chicks!)
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