6 Hours out and about today on a great day for walking - sunny with a lovely refreshing breeze.
I had not been out birding for a few days so I was in the mood to stop and linger a bit.
Abi slept over Friday and Saturday and stopped most of Sunday as well.
On Friday evening, after devouring a huge meal in the Raggalds Inn for tea, she decided to make a sponge cake.
It took visits to 3 shops before she was set up with all the right ingredients.
Not being a baker myself my cupboards seemed to be a bit lacking.
On Saturday Abi made a Chicken Curry which again was quite an experience (her recipe .
has 18 ingredients!).
On top of the baking and cooking we also had a couple of visits to Bradshaw Park with Sue's Rounders bat (Made with proper wood where the handle had been chamfered into the body by a fancy joint and the whole handle had some thick string stuff wrapped around it - the bat was probably 50 years old).
These rounders episodes were not a problem at all for me in the "Great Heat May 2026".
(I've probably got a "not" in the previous sentence by mistake).
Today I did the usual hike along the Bradshaw fields and through the farms to Ned Hill Road and along Ogden Lane, around Ogden Water to stop at the cafe for a natter and a coffee.
One of the ladies there told me this joke:
Question: What is E,T. short for?
Answer: Because he has little legs.
On again up Ned Hill Road over Soil Hill and down the North Slope to the first tree line.
Home was via Taylor Lane.
There are some free household items available again at the start of Soil Hill Mast Track.
It was nice have a quick natter with NK who I bumped into at Ogden.
A Great Spotted Woodpecker was hammering on a Blue Tit Nest Box looking for an egg sandwich.
3 Mallard ducklings looked very venerable.
Birds:-
Wren, Carrion Crow, Woodpigeon, Jackdaw, Red Legged Partridge.
Little Owl, 4 Whitethroat, Starling, Blackbird, 2 Curlew.
Robin, Magpie, c10 Linnet, 6 Swallow, Lesser Black-backed Gull.
Chiffchaff, Chaffinch, 1 Mistle Thrush, Mallard, Willow Warbler.
Grey Wagtail, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, c10 Blackcap, Blue Tit, Great Tit.
PIED FLYCATCHER, Dunnock, 1 Tufted Duck, Bullfinch, House Sparrow.
Pheasant, Grey Wagtail, Lapwing, Coal Tit, 2 Oystercatcher (Soil Hill).
3 Skylark, 3 Meadow Pipit, Canada Goose, Herring Gull, Greenfinch.
Stock Dove, Feral Pigeon. Goldfinch. Moorhen. Heron.
AND ...... Some photos taken from the garden during the "Great Heat May 2026".
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