OneGuyFromBarlick

The annual miracle of the re-appearance of Doctor Green.....

50 (plus) shades...

Lovely! We don’t realise how lucky we are. I remember how disappointed I was with Spring in Minnesota, everything burned brown by the severe winter frosts.

Another from the other day.

Beyond Bankfield, you can see the roofs of Crow Nest and beyond those, work progressing on reslating the gas works yard building.

Mist in the bottoms about 5.30 this morning.

It's a BEAUTIFUL DAY.....

A lot of grass has been silaged in the last couple of days.

I thought it would be early this year, the kids told me they saw cutting up in the Dales last weekend.

Getting the grass in yesterday afternoon.

(You can also see more hawthorn blossom in the hedge separating the fields.)

Talking to a farmer from Brogden Lane yesterday evening, he said he would wait until his grass had more sugar/starch in it, ideally waiting until it was just about to set seed so that the stalks provided some roughage as well.

Nice to see the farmers getting a bit of good luck for a change. Silage is so important now that the price of proven has risen so much.

This starling is one of the lead members of the chorus outside our bedroom window in a morning.

We have two pairs of starlings nesting at the front of the house and one on the side.

Lovely little birds and so many never realise how colourful they are, especially in sunlight.

I like them as well, punk rockers of the medium sized birds, very messy eaters on the bird table. I like Jackdaws as well, intelligent birds and elegant plumage.

Jackdaws are brilliant. We have a colony round East Hill Street and I love to see them strutting about looking for mischief.

One from the other day.

Rolls-Royce radio mast on top of the observation post at Bankfield (if my description is wrong, please feel free...), in front of what is now the masonic lodge (the old vicarage).

Forgot to say that is was the shadows of the chimneys on North Parade which originally caught my eye in that view.

You're right David, it was an ARP fire watching post and undoubtedly and Air Observer point as well if there had been anything to observe.

Sunset last night.

With the weather this morning, the old adage didn't hold...

Buttercup filled fields.

Nice pics David... We are lucky to be living in such a beautiful part of the country. Can't imagine living in a concrete jungle.

This one's from yesterday morning; I think it gives a flavour of the steamy showers that have been sweeping over Barlick recently.

Crows assembling in an ash tree near our house yesterday evening.

After a fair amount of chewing the cud, they all fly off to roost somewhere else.

Our local jackdaw colony is very active. They and the crows like to congregate on the masts on top of the fire station practice tower.

Trees are almost all in full leaf now.

I commented in Forgotten Corners this morning on the way our trees have flourished in the last 100 years. Far more than there used to be.