Friday, 9 January 2026

Bradshaw - Ogden Water (Saved by the Alarm).

I was busy, busy, busy this morning sticking bedding into the big white box with a port hole that sits looking menacingly at me in the kitchen.

Using this big box makes the washing a wee doddle.

The dashing away with the soothing iron afterwards though, well, it's just impossible.

CLICK - dashing away with the soothing iron

Especially that big white thing with a rubber band around it's edge - who designed that?

I now know why its called a fitted sheet - you can't iron the thing without having a hissy fit.

Anyway, after lunch I walked over the fields to Ogden Water.

Looking from the promenade, I could see 8  Tufted Ducks, way off on the north east end of the water (and nowt else)  so I decided to walk around to see if I could get a photo.

The circuit path was well dodgy sending me into the woods to walk against the wall path,  or as near as I could, so I could still observe the barren water!

Real good exercise this is, with not much path at times. 

When I got to the north, east end there were now 6 Tufties and they  had moved into the middle so the photos are not great.

Then ..... just as I was bout to get my 1st 2026 lifer , my telling bone rang.

A man asked if my alarm maintenance, which was due in 2 weeks, could be done this afternoon - in half an hour from now!

I tried to explain that my lifer was imminent but in the end I softened and legged it home.

I arrived 10 mins before Mr. A. Larm so I could probably have got that lifer after all.

With all this guff - you guessed it - not many birds.

Birds:-

Buzzard.

Kestrel.

c25 Gulls at one point.

8 Tufted Duck.

2 Pheasant.

2 Stock Dove.

A small flock of Goldfinch and Chaffinch along the farm track.















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