Templars Firs (Thursday 27th June 2024)

My arrival onto the scene was highly unwelcome to this heron, who squawked off even as I was raising my camera, and didn't return.

I walked up to the first footbridge and back hoping to see it again, or a swan family, but when I didn't I decided to drive up to the next crossing point and parked in Chaddington Lane on the bridge over the canal.

A pair of swans had been sunbathing on the north side and crossed under the bridge when they saw me. A dogwalker told me there was another pair with some cygnets higher up on the way to Studley Grange (see Extra). I think they may be the first I have seen this year.

L.
Thursday 27.6.2024 (2000 hr)

Blip #4112 (#3862 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2024 #096/266 + #042/100 Extras
Day #5206 (1288 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3251 (#3091 + 160 in archived blips)

Wilts & Berks Walks: Templars Firs and Studley Grange, 27 June 2024 (Flickr album of 57 photos)

Taken with Pentax K-50 (Yellow) and Pentax HD P-DA 55-300 mm F4-5.8 ED WR lens
(1st Extra taken with Pentax K-50 (White) and Pentax smc P-DA 12-24mm F4.0 ED/AL (IF) lens, at 21mm)

Wootton Bassett series
Templars Firs series
Wildlife series
Birds series
Herons series
Canals series
Wilts and Berks Canal series

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Bridget St John - A Day A Way (1971)
From the Ron Geesin produced album Songs For The Gentle Man: Exploration Of Songs. He also arranged most of the album, including this opening track that features members of the London Philharmonia, on John Peel's Dandelion label.