Happy Birthday to me !!

My birthday this year was certainly like no other that's for sure. We usually take trips around our birthdays but at the moment trips are non-existent. But that didn't stop me from having a brilliant day with lots of nice pressies, good food and wine and family love. Thoroughly enjoying the book so far and can feel a future trip to Australia happening in (hopefully) the not too distant future !  K xx

 

This weeks lockdown walks

 

Stonechat

Siskin

Great White Egret

Whooper Swans

Redpoll

Crossbill

Bullfinch

It is always worth a look through the greylag geese, today there was a Barnacle Goose with them

The sun and the frost had made the moss almost luminous

Frozen !!

We go for a walk every day as we find it necessary for our well being. Sometimes its a couple of hours stroll birding and occasionally we put in a 20,000 step, 8 mile march just to keep the hips and knees oiled. We are very lucky that we have lots of varied walks that we can do all within a couple of miles from home. 

A few from this weeks walks

 

Turkey Tails

Our local Scarlet Elf Cups are coming up nicely

Frosty !

Good to find more Scarlet Elf Cups on the Moors, not easy to find

Happy Christmas on the Moors

Mistletoe on a local reserve. See it has been well and truly pruned by the Christmas foragers

Jelly Ears that both look and feel like skin, very weird !

The remains of the Augustinian Thornholme Priory at Appleby, Lincs

A lovely walk yesterday

 

There is a tree on our walk that is dedicated to the NHS, to say 'THANK YOU' xx   We will take a trinket to put on there on our next walk. 

Hibernating ladybirds, all tucked away for the winter.

Hair Ice - a new fungus for us

The Scarlet Elf Cups are just emerging, will take another look at them next week.

Massive !

Stag's Horn

Despite lockdown, we go for a walk every day but always stay local. We feel that its necessary. We have a few local walks that we do that don't attract the masses, infact today we met half a dozen folk on a 4 mile walk, all respected distance. Horrid times that we are all trying our best to get through as best we can.