Tuesday, 7 March 2023

Sowerby Bridge - Mytholmroyd (and back) / Local Fields

Shopping for most of the morning, once great lumps of ice were removed from the car.

A glorious day for an exercise walk and, late morning, we headed off to Sowerby Bridge.

We enjoyed an exercise walk along the canal to Mytholmroyd, where, we also enjoyed a late lunch snack (the snack included apple pie and custard - yum) in the excellent Blue Teapot CafĂ© there - before retracing our steps.

I put 4 hours parking on the car at Sowerby Bridge - expiring at 15:58 and we made it back at 15:56 - jammy or what. 

(It was the wait for the apple pie that caused the delay)

Late afternoon I had a quick squint at the local fields.

Birds:-

Sowerby Bridge - Mytholmroyd:

(No bins or camera today).

c50 Canada Geese. Grey Wagtail. Great Spotted Woodpecker, Song Thrush.

Heron. A few calling Nuthatch.

Local Fields:

Little Owl.

Stock Dove.

Woodpigeons.

No Gulls in the fields, just a few small Gulls over.

Elsewhere:

A Peregrine Falcon.

(A sky watch, while the car was thawing out this morning, brought with it a large plane just on the camera's zoom capability - Jumbo?)




Probably Crows.


Snow Forecast:

Listening to radio Leeds on our way home from Sowerby Bridge, Paul the weather man was giving his opinion on the bad weather due.

He reckons that a foot of snow will fall from Thursday / Friday on the top of the Pennines.

Cross Fell at 2930 ft is the highest point in Pennines so is that where the foot of snow will fall?

If so, I wonder how much snow Soil Hill and Bradshaw are in for!!

This snowy period sound like a time for laying down and avoiding .... as the Monty Python Australian wine connoisseur advised (in my youth) for "Perth Pink" :-

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