Bank Edge View

[David Whipp]

Part mist just after 6 this morning.

[Stanley]

It was clear as a bell at 4am.....

[David Whipp]

Couldn't find any parrots to picture; here's a couple of crows cleaning their feathers this morning.

[Stanley]

My Merrythought parrot. Have considered sewing it on the shoulder of my jacket.....

[David Whipp]

Still not pictured a parrot; caught another crow on camera this morning. They're just about the only birds I see that stay still long enough for me to snap them. My favourite Bank Edge view this morning is one of Barlick in the sunshine, but there's little change from the last GV I posted.

Anyroad, I've settled on the view westward, looking over the sewage works and the houses on Greenberfield Lane and the bottom of Gisburn Road. There's lots of new growth in the fields which were mown in the earliest round of grass cutting and a fresh set of fields shorn of their greenery. The slopes of Waddington Fell are seen in the distance.

[Stanley]

I love sewage farms! Forgotten corners but absolutely essential. Unsung heroes I reckon.....

[David Whipp]

Same view of Barlick - different time of day.



Taken late yesterday evening.

I took one just after 4 this morning as well, but mustn't have been awake enough to get it in focus...

[Stanley]

Ah! Are you joining the early riser's club?

[David Whipp]

Time of year Stanley; I love these days when night lasts barely the bat of any eye, dawn and birdsong are persistent alarm clocks for me.

[Stanley]

Join the club! Jack and were out walking at just after 05:00 this morning. Longest day on Saturday?

[David Whipp]

7.45am... still no sun breaking up the clag.

[David Whipp]

The sun eventually came out on the longest day.

Here's a view of the allotments at Greenberfield.

[David Whipp]

Twilight just before 10pm this evening.

I think the winged blur just above the horizon in the centre of the picture is a bat.

[Stanley]

Nice.....

[David Whipp]

Greenberfield have begun their second cut of silage.

[Stanley]

Nice pic. Many of the farmers will get three good cuts this year. Good, they need it with the price of feed.

[David Whipp]

Same view, different light this morning.

Not sure whether the grass has been turned this morning before I got up.

[Stanley]

Not a lot of dew so it might have been. That was always the criterion for turning swathes whether for hay or silage, if the dew had burned off, get into it. Not a lot of point turning water into the lower part of the swathe. You'd see the old farmers walking about in the stubble and as soon as their clogs came up dry they would get cracking.

[David Whipp]

Wonder if Willam Hartley or his lads have their clogs on?!

[Stanley]

Lovely reminders in the future of the best temperate summer I can remember. It hasn't put a foot wrong yet!

[David Whipp]

Another one for the records.

The same view at 6am this morning.

The last of the grass is still to be got off the fields on the closest drumlins. Beyond, serried ranks of drumlins merge into the morning mist.

[Stanley]

Lovely.....

[David Whipp]

Grass gathered in; fields ready for the rain looming in the West.

[Stanley]

Exactly what you want to see after you have cleared a meadow! Especially if there is a bit of thunder with it. With one cut for hay, the aftermath or 'foggage' as it was called round here was very important for grazing as the pastures were generally eaten off.

[David Whipp]

The fields have been sprayed with slurry.