This Saturday I went up into the village to pay for the papers and, of course, took my camera with me.
Just outside the newsagent the waste bins had recently had new plastic bags fitted and the wind had caught one of them. 
.On the way home I took a slight detour of about 3 hours by walking on Baildon Moor. Just off the road to Crooke Farm the sun was shining on a group of Teasels that looked quite good waving in the wind.
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A little bit further up from the Teasels I found a Wild Rose with two bright red clusters made by the Gall Wasp, Diplolepis rosae, Rose bedeguar gall.
I then spent some time with a group of people flying radio controlled gliders. Way above the gliders was a Red Kite just drifting on the wind and thermals as if to say “This is how you do it.” One of these days I’ll get close enough to see the cut of it’s feathers.
In parts the moors are sodden as you might expect from all the rain we have been having. As a result I started thinking about drainage – not increasing/improving drainage but reducing it. With more building being done we run the risk of letting water run off land quickly into rivers and cause flooding – though I understand modern developments are supposed to hold on to water. If the moors are allowed to accumulate more water during rain without it running down drainage ditches then the flow of water to the streams and rivers will be smoothed – with reduced flooding.
After walking along part of Shipley Glen and trying to catch sight of some of the birds I could hear signing I then started for home but just before leaving the moors I spotted this loan Mistle Thrush on the wire near Bracken Hall Centre.
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