In the morning we went for a walk by the Itchen looking for the Kingfishers which I saw on Saturday, but they weren't around. I had seen two just below Woddmill on Saturday when the tide was out. The tide was in today so catching fish there would have been more difficult. We did see a very late duckling though.
In the afternoon we went to Hook with Warsash Nature Reserve and saw Black-tailed Godwit, a Heron, Little Egret, Oyster Catchers and a cabbage white caterpillar on some sea kale. It's the first time we've been there but we'll be back.
Monday, 25 August 2008
Saturday, 16 August 2008
Eling
There are a couple of places that we've explored around Eling. Both times we've been there we drove in via Jacob's Gutter Lane and Eling Hill and parked in the car park which is on the right just before you reach the toll bridge.
Thursday, 7 August 2008
A Cricket and Bats by the Itchen
Went for an an evening walk by the Itchen and saw a Dark Bush Cricket. By the river we saw three kinds of bats. Pipistrelle which are the most common British bat, Daubenton's which are a similar size to Pipistrelle but skim low over the water and Noctule bats which are larger (35cm wingspan) and fly higher up.
Saturday, 3 May 2008
Lacewing Larva
We found this insect under a leaf on the buddleja. Putting an unknown bug on my hand might not have been the best plan as I think it might have tried to bite me. I didn't know what this was but I uploaded the photo to flickr and posted it to the British Insects and other arthropods pool and within hours flickr user mountainashe identified it as a lacewing larva. There's two more pictures of it here and here
Wednesday, 26 March 2008
Winchester Passion
On Good Friday we went to The Winchester Passion a passion play in the streets of Winchester. It was really good although the sheer number of people often made if difficult to see or hear what was going on. There's a group on flickr with people photos of the event: Flikr: Winchester Passion 2008
Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Snowdonia
Sunday
We went for a walk from Talsarnau along the estuary towards Pont Briwet (the road and rail bridge over the Afon Dwyryd). Saw some canada geese and baby sole in Afon Dwyryd. We walked back over the hills via Llyn Tecwyn Uchaf and through some steep forest paths. Saw a couple of hares too.
Monday
Went to Criccieth Castle then had lunch on the beach. Went to Pwllheli and walked round the east side of the harbour and saw some herons and some jellyfish.
Tuesday
Went up Snowdon from Nantgwynant via the south ridge going to the summit of Allt Maenderyn on the way. All along the ridges we were in cloud. The station and cafe at the top of Snowdon are being rebuilt at the moment so as we neared the summit we were greeted buy the slightly odd sight of construction equipment. After stopping for our last sandwich we descended on the watkin path. Our route was nearly the reverse of route 6 on High Trek Snowdonia.
Wednesday
A journey on the Caernarfon end of the Welsh Highland Railway. We travelled from Caernarfon to behind Beyer-Garratt #138, had lunch at Rhyd Ddu then got the train back to Waunfawr pulled byCastell Caernarfon. We looked round the gardens at Antur Waunfawr, then went for a pint at the Snowdonia Park Brewpub next to the station.
Thursday
Went to Penrhyn Castle - as well as the usual stuff you'd expect from a national trust stately home it has Britain's only industrial railway museum which included locomotives Penrhyn quarries and the Dinorwig quarries which we visited on Friday!
Friday
Went to the National Slate Museum in Llanberis. It is situated in the Dinorwig quarry workshops and is next to the Llanberis lake railway. It has the largest waterwheel in Britain (it is huge!), demonstrations of slate splitting (which can still only be done by hand), and old workers cottages which had been furnished to reflect slate workers houses in 1860, 1901 and 1969. The cottages were tiny - about the size of the one bedroom cottage we were staying in - yet the 1860 one had a family of 5 plus two lodgers living in it. We also took a look at the only working incline (though it wasn't in use when we were there) and took what I though would be a short walk up to a viewpoint.
We went for a walk from Talsarnau along the estuary towards Pont Briwet (the road and rail bridge over the Afon Dwyryd). Saw some canada geese and baby sole in Afon Dwyryd. We walked back over the hills via Llyn Tecwyn Uchaf and through some steep forest paths. Saw a couple of hares too.
Monday
Went to Criccieth Castle then had lunch on the beach. Went to Pwllheli and walked round the east side of the harbour and saw some herons and some jellyfish.
Tuesday
Went up Snowdon from Nantgwynant via the south ridge going to the summit of Allt Maenderyn on the way. All along the ridges we were in cloud. The station and cafe at the top of Snowdon are being rebuilt at the moment so as we neared the summit we were greeted buy the slightly odd sight of construction equipment. After stopping for our last sandwich we descended on the watkin path. Our route was nearly the reverse of route 6 on High Trek Snowdonia.
Wednesday
A journey on the Caernarfon end of the Welsh Highland Railway. We travelled from Caernarfon to behind Beyer-Garratt #138, had lunch at Rhyd Ddu then got the train back to Waunfawr pulled byCastell Caernarfon. We looked round the gardens at Antur Waunfawr, then went for a pint at the Snowdonia Park Brewpub next to the station.
Thursday
Went to Penrhyn Castle - as well as the usual stuff you'd expect from a national trust stately home it has Britain's only industrial railway museum which included locomotives Penrhyn quarries and the Dinorwig quarries which we visited on Friday!
Friday
Went to the National Slate Museum in Llanberis. It is situated in the Dinorwig quarry workshops and is next to the Llanberis lake railway. It has the largest waterwheel in Britain (it is huge!), demonstrations of slate splitting (which can still only be done by hand), and old workers cottages which had been furnished to reflect slate workers houses in 1860, 1901 and 1969. The cottages were tiny - about the size of the one bedroom cottage we were staying in - yet the 1860 one had a family of 5 plus two lodgers living in it. We also took a look at the only working incline (though it wasn't in use when we were there) and took what I though would be a short walk up to a viewpoint.
Friday, 11 May 2007
Duke Special
We went to see Duke Special on Friday. They were supported by Beth Rowley who also did some vocals in Duke Special's set. I found some photos on Flickr. I love the fact that someone will have taken great photos of almost anything and you can find them in a couple of minutes!
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