ST. PATRICK (04/03/10)

Off we set for another wander around. It’s still very cold at night but day time temperatures, in the sun, are almost balmy.  I had a lovely surprise whilst eating breakfast, though the photograph is grim to put it mildly.

      A Nuthatch, the first one I’ve ever seen. This is taken through the van window and is the best of about a dozen shots, don’t even ask what the rest were like! He inspects the feeders from about sixty feet up and refuses to come near if I open the window. It’ll no doubt be back tomorrow so I will keep trying. No sign of the deer today, that saved the bother of not getting a picture of them!

      We walked up to Glenridding to see what the steamer times were. Not too much of interest along the way but this is St. Patrick’s Well, elaborate for a horse trough.

We came back through the woodland as I could hear a Woodpecker and being full of my lack of success with the Nuthatch thought a blurry image of a Woodpecker would fit the post rather aptly. Needless to say I couldn’t find it.

      We did find this female Pheasant keeping her eye on us. Barring accident she is safe now till next August.

St. Patrick’s church in Patterdale. I like this, a simple and attractive building. I would have gone in but there was something going on judging by the number of people around.

I never knew Monkey Puzzle trees grew to this size. I used to see them in suburban gardens. They were usually around twelve feet tall this has to be sixty feet. If I remember rightly their correct name is Chile Pine.

We never did find the deer today, nor the Buzzard we will see what tomorrow sends our way.