A Rye Meads update

Well the RSPB handed back Rye Meads back to Thames Water yesterday. I'm not entirely sure why, I know it was running costs so the reserve is closed. I'm not sure what the future holds. Thames Water are committed to keeping it open but there are no timescales. I had hoped that a decision would have been in hand but here we are.

I loved the place but I've only been once this year.... And stopped going regularly after 2023. I honestly don't know why. I suspect that during COVID I got an obsession for walking and what I saw on my walks here. I really should have gone once a week. And I should have gone yesterday.... I'm annoyed at that as it had a prominent place in my life.

The pond across the road finally has some water but not much. Hopefully it'll refill and the ducks return. It is the first time I've known it to dry out.

Baddesley Clinton

There a few places I ought to go  but I decided I wasn't going to drive far and headed to Charlecote but at the time it was closed due to power issues so I headed off to Baddesley Clinton. Amazingly I haven't been there since 2021!!

Baddesley is a small medieval moated manor house. There is a medieval church close by, I would have walked there but the rain started and I headed off instead.

This volunteer fed the ducks... 

It had been a bright day but the clouds came so I wandered off. Baddesley opens at 9 so maybe next time I'm up. I ought to get here for breakfast and combine with Packwood.