Another cold night and another bus ride planned as we legged it down Bradshaw Lane in a snow flurry this morning.
Todays plan... 502 bus to Cross Roads.. coffee and bun in Wildes excellent cafe awaiting the B3 bus to Hebden Bridge.
All went well until.. the B3 stopped for us at Cross Roads.
"Where are you heading?" enquired Reg Varney.
"Hebden Bridge I guess" replied a little bloke 🤔 ?
" Guess again" said Reg Varney. "We are only going as far as Oxenhope, due to the adverse weather"
"My second guess is ......................🤔 .............
Oxenhope?" said the little bloke.
So we went to Oxenhope and had a smashing walk back to Haworth along the stream.
We caught a bus at Haworth , back to Cross Roads and with the Halifax bus allowing us plenty of time, we popped into Wildes café again for lunch.
Sue had a bacon, mushroom banjo and I had a salad sarnie yum yum.
We got home a bit earlier than planned today, do I did my usual Bradshaw circuit ... Farm track, Ned Hill. Percy Rd, Taylor Lane.
(I gave Soil Hill the cold shoulder today).
Good to chat to Delila by the farms who mentioned that there is a black and silver Fox knocking about.
There was a slight thaw this afternoon, but with the increase in the wind speed it was a cool outing.
Some great views and pretty clouds just a few birds about with the fields still covered in snow.
My garden meal worms were popular today as well today.
A really enjoyable day today, so I am now awaiting to be grounded by THE BIG RAIN with THE BIG WIND due soon.
(Anyway I've loaded Paint.net onto Windows 10 [free from Microsoft ] to confuse me until the deluge stops).
Birds:-
Haworth Walk.
Best of a meagre few were a pair Song Thrush.
Bradshaw circular.
4 Pheasant flushed by Matthew's farm.
2 Mistle Thrush.
Wagtail sp. overhead but not seen.
A distant Buzzard in a strong westerly above Soil Hill was behaving very Kestrel like, and flew even further away towards Ogden plantation.
Passing the enclosed Taylor Lane midden a small bird flew off "bobbing slightly".
I should have taken a photo of it , but I opted instead to follow it in the bins hoping it would land nearby ... but it disappeared over the hill.. miserable sod.
The bird had plenty of white showing below and looked a tad like a goldfinch with a longer tail?
Anyway it was Mega, obviously......
Shortly to appear in my new (Enid Blyton Plagiarised ) new book -
Birding with Bradshaw John - Another mega goes begging.
Catchy title eh?
A really enjoyable day out and about today.
Riddle:
What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Answer below the photos.
Oxenhope - Haworth.
Bradshaw Circular:
Riddle Answer:
A mushroom - the riddles are getting better aren't they just?😏
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