These are the final ones from March that I want to put on here. Ones from several walks along Gill Beck. A visit to Denso Marston Nature Reserve, and Ben Rhydding Gravel Pits Local Nature Reserve.
The header image is of Swans flying from one end of Tong Park Dam to the other,
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Gill Beck
Photos from walks along Gill Beck on 9, 18, 20, and 21.
The Little Brown Mushroom was a surprise. It was growing out of the ground in the middle of the path. It probaly wouldn’t last long but then some of them don’t need to. By the time they have reached this stage they have been releasing their spores.
The Toads around Tong Park Dam knew that Spring was in the air. And its a good job they are amphibians because they were several deep in their eagerness. Lots of spawn could be seen, but on my later visits I couldn’t see it.
I was rather surprised to find the skull of a Roe Deer near the beck and then even more surprised to find quite a bit more of it.
I went back the following day and found a couple more pieces so that I now have everything except for 1 leg bone and its toes. This was when I noticed the bark beetle larva tracks on the surface of a nearby tree and on the underside of peeled-off bark.
The photo of the Dipper is from the visit of 21st.
The Goosander and the rather smart looking male Mandarin Duck are from 31st, as is the Butterbur. With the Butterbur I tried to get down low to show that lots of it is in flower.
Denso Marston Nature Reserve
Here’s just two photos from a visit to Denso Marston Nature Reserve.
The mushroom is some form of Rustgill I think.
At the reserve I could hear Nuthatch but only managed to get a quick glimpse of one that paused long enough for me to get a photo.
Ben Rhydding Gravel Pits Nature Reserve
On the same day as the visit to Denso I also went along to Ben Rhydding Gravel Pits Local Nature Reserve where a Little Egret kindly displayed its yellow feet and then went on to catch several fish.
Two male Mandarin ducks were paddling along the other side of the river looking like they might be a pair. One of them making more of a display of its plumage.
On the road side of the large pond in the reserve I spotted a fishing lure dangling from a tree. Obviously someone hadn’t been paying attention to their surroundings when fishing.
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