Kendal Shopping Trip

Now that Sue’s foot has nearly returned to normal size after her op. in October, we had a day shopping for ‘normal’ shoes at Kendal. There is an outlet village there called ‘K’ village and a few good shoe shops with, as Sue discovered, some very good bargains. She was well chuffed.

On the way up I spotted only 2 Oystercatcher which was a bit surprising. What was more surprising, was (I am fairly sure) a Little Egret seen from the car in the fields about 2 miles above Settle. It seemed a very odd place to see Little Egret though?

We had the obligatory visit to the café for some toast, a few hours shopping, another café visit for a sarnie, another hours shop and headed off home.

A Grey Wagtail was on the river outside the shopping village and on the journey home I spotted Kestrel, Grey Heron and Greylag Geese with prolific numbers of small gulls in the fields.

On the way home we decided to stop at Hellifield Flash – a good move.

Birds: Hellifield Flash:

Here goes – a test of my poor bird ID skills especially the Black Tailed Godwit and the Scaup!

BHG, Common Gull, Black Tailed Godwit, Shoveler, Teal, Pintail, Widgeon, Oystercatcher, Lapwing, A Scaup (I though this was a Tufted Duck at first but looking at the photo I think it’s a Scaup), Shelduck, Mallard, Mute Swan, Coot and Large flock of Starling over.

 (I made a little wish for them to come visit Ogden in the not too distant future!)

The Raggalds Flood had benefited slightly from today’s rain with 2 fairly large pools showing as we drove past.
Looking at some of the other local blogs - this morning looked like a good time to be (dry) in the car.

Possible Scaup