Pond & Canal Pics

Saturday the Fifteenth of March

Umbelifer
Great Crested Grebe


Sunday the Sixteenth of March

Our resident cormorant

(are you fed up with cormorant pics yet?)

Forget-me-nots are beginning to bloom, a squirrel keeps an eye on me and a couple of bluetits are courting.

Cygnet on the canal, a robin with a worm and a pair of great crested grebes.

Grebes again and swan in a flap

Monday the Seventeenth of March

Saint Patrick’s Day

As the “Apostle of Ireland”, he is the primary patron saint of Ireland, the other patron saints being Brigid of Kildare and Columba. He is also, notably, the patron saint of Nigeria. Patrick was never formally canonised by the Catholic Church, having lived before the current laws it established for such matters. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, the Lutheran Church, the Church of Ireland (part of the Anglican Communion), and in the Eastern Orthodox Church, where he is regarded as equal-to-the-apostles and Enlightener of Ireland.

First view of the pond every day

Cormorant (again)

Coot with nesting material

Tuesday the Eighteenth of March

A dunnock feeding at the milestone on the Chesterfield Canal

On a cloudless day there are always contrails

Chesterfield Canal


Onward to Shireoaks Woodland

Distant wind turbines

Well, that’s a bit of a bugger! WordPress tells me that I’ve used all my image space. To increase it’ll cost $25 a month – can’t afford that – so I’m going to remove (copy to hard drive) some of the oldest pics.

More soon.

Tuesday the Eleventh of March

Cormorant; love the pic where he’s giving me the evil eye.


Here he is again



The pond





Wednesday the Twelfth of March

That’s all for that day



Thursday the Thirteenth of March

Pond & Canal

Great Crested Grebes


Great Crested Grebes on the Pond


Coot on the nest


Friday the Fourteenth of March

The Male Swan Nest Building


Great Crested Grebe Patrolling


Mallard Pair

Cormorant’s Hooked Beak