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I’m still working my way through the photos from Saturday 17 June. Here are some more taken from down on the river Aire in Baildon. By this time I was heading back home. But a Kingfisher was obligingly perched on a branch in the river. If the view is clear enough this looks like a…

Here is another small set of photos from last Saturday. I spotted a Moorhen in the water and then a scruffy looking Moorhen chick near to it. Related? Possibly. But then I spotted this. A Moorhen nest, with eggs, in amongst grass and reeds some way out from the edge. After taking a couple of…

I have decided to split the photos from last weekend into several posts. This is a general one about a walk along the river Aire on Saturday through Denso Marston Nature Reserve and further along towards Shipley but with a bit of emphasis on the masses of Damselfly around. It was quite a hot day…

This last weekend I spent a few hours up on Baildon Moor, all on the North side of Bingley Road other than a few minutes with an ice cream at Shipley Glen. On Saturday I was up there reasonably early, about 6:30, to have the light behind me so that I could get well lit…

Having mentioned Mink in my last posting I searched here for my previous encounters and found that the best story was only on Flickr but this website is where it should be; so here goes. Mink were first in the UK in the late 1920s, in Mink farms, where they were bred for their fur.…

After a walk around Hallcliffe Community Garden I went down to Denso Marston Nature Reserve. I had heard that a Mink had been seen there earlier so that helped me decide where to go with my camera. I didn’t see the Mink but did enjoy my walk along the river. I was looking out for…

Hallcliffe Community Garden used to be the playground for Baildon C of E First School and was left empty for several years when the school moved all classes up to the Jenny Lane site. The Jenny Lane site is now Newbury Close and the school is on the site of Ladderbanks second school but is…