Showing posts with label train. Show all posts
Showing posts with label train. Show all posts
Wednesday, 30 July 2014
Saturday, 12 September 2009
Saturday 12 September 2009
13:00 Sunny 18 o C. Wind NW 9mph. Humidity 55%. Pressure 1031mB. Visibility very good. High tide today 17:05, 7.68m.
Lock gates closed.
The weather remains fine, bringing the weekend visitors and train enthusiasts. It has also brought out a few butterflies enjoying the warm autumn sun.
Ribble Steam Railway are having a Gala Weekend, running engines from the museum, along with a visiting engine from the Lakeside Line in Cumbria.
In the dock basin
Black-headed gull x 40
Coot x 1
Mallard x 4
Lock gates closed.
The weather remains fine, bringing the weekend visitors and train enthusiasts. It has also brought out a few butterflies enjoying the warm autumn sun.
Ribble Steam Railway are having a Gala Weekend, running engines from the museum, along with a visiting engine from the Lakeside Line in Cumbria.
In the dock basin
Black-headed gull x 40
Coot x 1
Mallard x 4
Thursday, 13 August 2009
Thursday 13 August 2009
Around the bullnose
13:30 Sunny intervals today, many prolonged. 18 o C. Wind W 6mph. Humidity 63%. Pressure 1019mB. Visibility very good. High tide today 14:26 8.02m. Lock gates closed.
One pair of swallows seem to be nesting in a recess in the lock wall, where the hydraulics for the gates are housed. They can be seen flitting in and out regularly. Many nest under the bridge, and don't seem at all fazed by the noise of traffic and trains passing overhead, or by the bridge opening and closing.
In the dock basin today
Mallard x 12 - Mostly sitting in the sun, momma with her 4 ducklings puddling around the mud at the riverward end today.
Coot x 2
Black-headed gulls x 20
Common gulls x 10
Herring gulls x 5
Keep watching the skies.
Looking for more ant swarms, perhaps?
Some other Docklands visitors
13:30 Sunny intervals today, many prolonged. 18 o C. Wind W 6mph. Humidity 63%. Pressure 1019mB. Visibility very good. High tide today 14:26 8.02m. Lock gates closed.
One pair of swallows seem to be nesting in a recess in the lock wall, where the hydraulics for the gates are housed. They can be seen flitting in and out regularly. Many nest under the bridge, and don't seem at all fazed by the noise of traffic and trains passing overhead, or by the bridge opening and closing.
In the dock basin todayMallard x 12 - Mostly sitting in the sun, momma with her 4 ducklings puddling around the mud at the riverward end today.
Coot x 2
Black-headed gulls x 20
Common gulls x 10
Herring gulls x 5
Keep watching the skies.
Looking for more ant swarms, perhaps?
Some other Docklands visitors
