Icy, Icy, Icy

A few hours escape late morning early afternoon from shopping, Santa and Frozen. Well not frozen really because Coal Lane, Plantation Track and the North end path at Ogden were bottle ice.

Soil Hill.

A beautiful sunny morning up here, with a cold westerly breeze, but a sad lack of bird life, as I traversed the hill via the contour path. Only a Common Gull and a few Crow were seen. Looking down towards the plantation 12 Canada Geese in the fields near the pond.

Coming off the hill onto Ned Hill Track 3 Partridge flushed and immediately disappeared so can’t say much about them.

In the plantation area quite a few Blackbird feeding with 2 Pheasant.

Ogden.

A bit strapped for time now but there were lots of Robin about, a few Goldcrest and the usual Great, Blue & Coal Tit congregation. 7 LTT were feeding together in trees near the promenade.

A Cormorant on the Res. podium.

A Kestrel seen > Soil Hill while waiting for a lift home.

Enjoyable walk on a lovely day with some ice-skating thrown in.

Icy, icy, icy

my dog's got no nose

How does it smell?

Flipping awful!

Taylor Lane Ice rink - even worse further up

The back shadow on an icy soil hill

Today's Pipe

Nice to spot a Robin from SH

Today's Pies with a few Black Puddings

Icy Ogden

Some of the water frozen in the North Corner

Today's post 'K2'

Must have upset  K9 who had just peed on it!

Today's bus shelter.