Coate Water Park (Thursday 27th July 2023)

When I set out this morning I had not decided where I was going on to after a couple of errands, but Buzz chose a route we had travelled once before for me and brought me to Coate Water Park, just after one o'clock.

This time I chose the anti-clockwise circuit around the lake and stopped along the way for a picnic lunch. I saw this pair of great crested grebes early on as well as the black swan, a pair of cormorants, a magpie, tufted ducks and their chicks, canada geese, swans, cygnets and gulls but no herons this time. I got back to the car two hours or more later.

L.
Thursday 27.7.2023 (1907 hr)

Blip #3926 (#3676 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #002
Blips/Extras In 2023 #132/265 + #071/100 Extras
Day #4869 (1133 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3066 (#2906 + 160 in archived blips)

Swindon series
Coate Water Park series
Birds series
Wildlife series
Outdoor Places I Have Sat In series

Coate Water Park, 27 July 2023 (Flickr album of 53 photos)

Taken with Nikon Coolpix P900 (24-2000mm equivalent bridge camera)

Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Sinéad O'Connor - Troy (recorded April 1987, London)
Whilst I was wondering yesterday which recording from Sinéad O'Connor's vast back catalogue to choose for LOTD I'd decided not to pick the obvious Nothing Compares 2 U because it will have been widely chosen elsewhere and she was never a one trick pony, in fact she had many sides. I eventually chose Fire On Babylon (see yesterday) but had nearly chosen her composition Troy, audaciously her very first single, a quite remarkable and lengthy record that was later included on her debut album The Lion And The Cobra. Listening to 6 Music as I drove back from Coate I heard it played in tribute to her by Craig Charles, who said it was his favourite of hers, giving me a reason for including it today.