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There are reservoirs behind this one in the goyt valley which do belong to the local water company. I think this one is used to send water to the canal and was for bygone industries ?? I’m only a few miles from it so know the area quite well
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It doesn’t belong to the local water company, it’s the canal trust ??
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I work on reservoirs and although I’m not “an expert” I consider myself as having more knowledge than most on the subject. There are plenty of people in the country with excellent engineering backgrounds into dam failures and the implications of failure should it happen. The authorities are only trying to protect people. If they hadn’t withdrawn families and it went tits up, people would be screaming murder. Most people don’t know or understand the law and how much work goes into making sure the reservoirs and dams are kept in good, safe condition. They just visit them and assume nothing goe
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Didn’t go there but I was in the Highlands last week and had a great week. Wonderful place if you like walking, hunting and nature. Weather spot on and roads were quiet ?? That place looks lovely. Might try there next year ??
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cragman replied to mattybugeye's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
Nope, not me. I’m only a few miles from there, normally climb up from the Hayfield side. Or catch the train in and walk home from edale. I was that way a week on Sunday. ?? -
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cragman replied to mattybugeye's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
Having a week up in the Highlands this week with my wife. Glorious weather so far ?? Managed a visit to Fort George and the battlefields of Culloden. Great day out, sunny and hot. Worth the visit is Fort George. Culloden is interesting but if you done get roped into paying to see a small exhibition, £11 each, it’s free ?? -
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cragman replied to mattybugeye's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
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Yep, making him look like he won the argument without even turning up. He’ll use it now at every opportunity to make those that banned him look fools and feel guilty. He’s just a shti stirrer
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Dropped foxes surely? Good going ?
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Great night, his voice hasn’t changed, still getting the high notes. Well worth a watch if you get the chance ??
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I’ll be listening to Graham Nash later when I go see him in halifax, he of Hollies fame and Crosby, Stills and Nash ?
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Grey Wagtail chicks doing well ?? -
Too much music in it for me. I did ten minutes then binned it??
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Ill bet he was “Neil” anyway ? the farmers do it round here, working well into the night. ?? Good luck to them, it’s a long day
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Sold mine to a lad on moochers years ago. Bought all mine at the broughton show. Mr Hobson had a stall there
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“Confrontation” it was called Fireman.
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This is a Hobson. Used to have a few of his but sold them on after enjoying seeing them on a wall. I’ve just this one of his now. That car boot picture is a little like a Mick Cawston
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Snipe chick ?? Came to see me as I sat on the moor
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But the pipit in this nest has been sitting on her clutch for at least six days before the cuckoo layed, so I’d say the cuckoo chick won’t hatch, it’ll be too far behind the others incubation wise. But you never know. I’m watching another nest on the same moor hoping the cuckoo will visit. If you fancy a trip to photograph any young ones let me know. ?
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Found a parasitised Meadow Pipits last week. Lovely sight to pull the foliage back to reveal a cuckoos egg among the pipits eggs. I’d been watching this nest hoping a cuckoo would call ?
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There’s got to be a way that people can have the BBC removed from their channel choice so that it becomes subscription only. Maybe they’re scared that no one will subscribe? I very rarely watch tv and even less the bias BBC
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Photos here, Still for sale
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They’ll lay regardless of if the host is there or not. They always lay in the afternoon and try to coincide it with the hosts being away from the nest, but it doesn’t always happen. As they glide to the nest, pipits especially will rise up and attack the female cuckoo with some ferocity, drawing feathers from the head of the bird. If you ever find a nest with a cuckoos egg in, look around the outside of the nest, there’s sometimes the odd cuckoo feather lying there if it was recent. I’ve watched cuckoos flying about and they’re always accompanied by a few small noisy birds. Some pipits almost
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Lovely photos ?
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“Build it and they will come” no need for material, the birds will sort it. This is in one of my towers in work. Pied Wagtail. It was coming in every year causing a right mess with its nest and shitting everywhere, so I put a box up over the entrance where it was coming in ?
