As I was walking round this May Day morning (between 2 breakfasts) …
I saw a Robin eating an insect…
squirrels eating something secretively…
a blackbird eating a worm..
and a duck eating a crumb.
An alternative entry for the MAY 2017 THEME DAY GALLERY – LET’S EAT!
It is the May Bank Holiday. I woke early and started the day with a breakfast of tea and toast. The jar of honey was bought at the local excellence market, made by Abingdon bees down the Radley Road.
Later on, after a walk, I met Pat L, by chance, and he invited me to a second breakfast at Java & Co.
Part of the MAY 2017 THEME DAY GALLERY – LET’S EAT!
10 years ago there was a flood in Abingdon – described by the Environment Agency as a 1 in 200 year event. Heavy rain on the clay soils of the River Ock catchment led – within about 36 hours – to many houses in Abingdon being flooded.
Ock Street flooded
St Helen’s Mill flooded.
These pictures are shown as part of the City Daily Photo Theme Day: Wet. click here for more.
There has also been an interesting exhibition in the Community Space – to be featured on tomorrow’s blog – showing what the environment agency has been doing to counter future flooding.
The City Daily Photo theme day for the start of March is ‘Black and White in Colour’.
We cycled to Radley Lakes on Sunday and walked round Thrupp Lake and the fishing lake alongside.
There was not a lot of colour in the pictures taken across the lakes. Parts of Thrupp Lake appeared to have been colonised by black and white cormorants. The only colour came from unidentifiable orange blobs on their island.
Two swans were on the fishing lake alongside. The only colour was their beaks.
Looking directly into the sun across Thrupp Lake. The only colour was from a handkerchief of blue sky.
More pictures at City Daily Photo on the theme.