Saturdays walk

First thing this morning It was foggy had my lights on going down the bank for the walk its 8.00am and the air is cool and damp.
The water is still and the walk started well its 3.5miles in full if you go to the old farm yard but if I go to the gate and back its 3miles we did the full walk this morning.
The only thing that stops me going further is the cows some times they are near the gate so we come back.
I heard my first cuckoo this year at about 8.15am today.

The mother duck sneaked along the opposite bank so the dogs and myself would miss her.

As well as the egg shells left on the Drain bank I often find these sweet corn husks where they come from who knows but they are fresh it may be that the badgers clear out the setts the birds may pick them up and drop them later.

These sluice gates are shut when the water behind them is low but when the water builds up in the dyke's behind the weight of the water pushes it open and the water flows out with no power used.
When the water in the drain at the front is high the water stays in the dyke.

It looks like a few of these could do with a good clean out.

This is an owl pellet at the side is a twenty pence to show the size it was mainly made up of fur and feathers with a few bones these were near the owl boxes.

So that's what happened to the ducklings.

I found a 2 dead moles this morning I would say that a fox was about in the night they tend to kill moles and not eat them.

para glider

In the last post I had no idea what the guy was flying well its a powered Para glider sooner him than me, heights don't bother me but I like my feet on the ground.

on Wikipedia it says they weigh between 45 and 80 lbs and fly between 15 to 45MPH and has a seat that folds down when in the air.

You control it with a toggle in each hand and has a hand held throttle.

It can fly at about 500 feet or up to 18000 ft and more.

when I returned to the truck it was hot and the fog had cleared it look like a day filtering the wine and gardening later.