Category: Paul’s Blog

What another nice day it has been. A lovely clear blue sky all day. Again it was a great day for butterflies but the only one I tried to get a photo of was the comma on the underside of a Comma. Again the Goldfinches stayed high in the trees so no photos of them.…

I say Day 1 but I don’t expect to keep count. “Stay at Home”. Who knows what excitement the next few weeks are going to bring. I have spent a few hours in the garden today. One of the tasks was to tidy up after hacking away at the Buddleia, there is no way I…

I have had another two walks through Denso Marston Nature Reserve this week, Wednesday and Thursday. After a Wednesday talk with Steve, the nature reserve Warden, I decided to go to the reserve earlyish on Thursday, so I was down by the pond around 6:45. Does that count as earlyish? Or is it “stupid” o’clock…

On Sunday it seemed too nice to be indoors but I decided to put extra layers on because I half expected to be standing around quietly hoping to see a Water rail at Denso Marston Nature Reserve. I didn’t see it but nor did I get cold. On the way down to Denso, there were…

I paid Denso Marston Nature Reserve another visit on Thursday. It is still quite wet and muddy from the rain and floods but is much tidier than I expected. After previous floods the trees on the river bank seemed to be choked with rubbish but this time, though there was silt around and branches littering…

Once the rain had died down a bit on 9 Feb 2020 I went out to see what the river was like down at Buck Lane, Denso Marston Nature Reserve, behind Charlestown Cemetary, and at the footbridge across from Midland Road. The first evidence of the storm was the tree that had blown over. By…

Having recently been along Gill Beck and seen the stone bridge I thought I would go and have another look to see if things had changed after all the rain from storm Ciara. The water has not been as high as I expected. I had seen the river down at Buck Lane where you couldn’t…

On Friday afternoon (7 Feb 2020) I finally made the time to go and have a look at the stone bridge over Gill Beck next to the Otley Road bridge. It had looked as though work was going on there even after the wall next to the road had been repaired, so I was curious…