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Saturday 5th 56F, breezy and rather cloudy. Though there are some blue gaps.
A walk down through the village to the small lake beyond. Intending to capture some photos of the water birds. Though there were only a few visible.
Great Crested Grebes are breeding here. So I have been following the progress of a family with three young. The weather was rather dull for most of the time and there was even a short shower as I returned home.
A solitary duck was floating on the church pond so I took a quick snap. Quite a rare sight for this roadside pond with heavy traffic passing only feet away. A Coot used to bully anything which fancied the pond as a resting place. Which was a waste of the resource because it did not breed.
I may ride to a more distant lake to see how the Shelducks are doing. They were tiny balls of fluff the last time I was there. Though that was back in the spring. At the start of the Jinping Plague social distancing rule.
A late morning ride to a lake with Swans, ducks, geese and lapwings. A farmer had ploughed the area between the lake and the footpath. Making it impossible to get any nearer. I started to take photographs, from a distance. Then hunters started shooting close nearby. Right beside a large village! Goodbye birds! Cattle stampeding in the field alongside! Then it rained. Then it blew a gale. Then 4WDs went past and then back again. [Twice] It took me 50 minutes to ride 7 miles home into a fierce headwind. Sweating buckets in a rain jacket. There were no Shelducks visible.
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