Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Fountains Abbey & Byland Abbey

The forecast last night was for heavy rain and when I left this morning it was wet......

I decided to go to Fountains Abbey and thought I'd stick a small camera in my waterproofs pocket  with a prime lens when I arrived at Fountains it was dry! So I stuck a bigger camera in my bag with a telephoto well ......

I stopped at the bird hide on route to the abbey.

Male Great Spotted Woodpecker!  The light was hideous




This little chap is heavily cropped but record shots of a Tree Sparrow.




There were two juvenile Great Spots




On to the abbey













Hang on is that a hint of blue?









WOW this was totally not expected!!!


















My view as I stopped for coffee






There are a pair of Oystercatchers with two chicks !














Some difference to earlier


Marsh Tit!


Cherry and Almond Scone


So where to? The sun was out and as Byland Abbey was open.....

When I last visited you had to pay, it's now free, and the little hut was occupied with a lone person. I had a cup of tea in the tearoom and they said that it wasn't worth occupying the booth on a wet day out of season they may get no visitors. I have to say I wondered how safe it might be as on my last visit it was a young lady (the attendant came from Rievaulx) on her own but equally we had a nice chat.... still I like Byland it is so peaceful and stunningly situated. It isn't over commercialised and now there is a tearoom....















I love how nature finds a way



Curiously I decided I didn't need a telephoto in a ruin.... and a flipping Spotted Flycatcher decided to pose¬!

1 comment:

Ragged Robin said...

Really interesting places and so pleased the weather brightened up for you. A lovely set of photos :)

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