Tag: Female pheasant

Up North For Lunch

Our misty dawn soon developed into a day of sunshine sending us on a trip to The Potting Shed at Hyde for lunch.

Looking down from the hill at Gorley Common. This first gallery is mine;

and here is Jackie’s set.

These two cyclists did well to scale the hill unaided, and I was able to congratulate them on this when we discovered that they shared our destination.

The lunch was really good. Mine involved steak and ale pie, peas, chips, and gravy; Jackie’s, baked potato with a shredded cheese filling, salad and coleslaw. The service was as friendly as usual.

Afterwards we enjoyed a closer view of the deer at the bottom of the hill. The first two pictures in this gallery are mine; the next two are by

Jackie, who also produced these catkins,

and this mini photo story of the pony who left some of her hair on a barbed wire fence under which she stretched before wandering off down the road to converse with field ponies feeding on hay.

When four female pheasants dashed across the road in front of us I managed to focus on one.

Given what we consumed for lunch, a light egg mayonnaise salad sufficed for our evening meal.

Exploring The Sandpit

A dull, overcast, morning made way for a bright, clear blue sky afternoon, early on which we drove to Ringwood’s in-excess for Jackie to buy a present.

We diverted to Sopley Mill where rippling reflections enhanced the shallow waters, and

a female pheasant failed to keep out of sight.

While Jackie carried out her shopping I stayed in the car and noticed

that someone had lowered the tone as

I inspected the view of the landscape down Poulner Hill seen beyond a lichen covered tree.

An exploration was under way on Rockford Sandpit.

This evening Elizabeth joined us at The Smugglers Inn in Milford on Sea for their Chinese New Year celebration menu. It is now too late and I am too stuffed to do it justice, so I will feature it tomorrow.