Wandering with my camera

  Bowers Marsh January visit 5 Two more visits to Bowers,  this one 23 January a frosty morning we arrive at 8-30 just before sunrise with the intention of doing the circular walk hoping to find the elusive Bearded Tits.  The gate is closed so we set of along the entrance toward the car park it is very quiet and still, part way down the track we notice what appears to be debris from a vehicle which turns out to be a car which has left the track and ended in the ditch under the hedge, judging by the tyre tracks it had left the car park at speed and plunged into the ditch and travelled a short distance coming to rest on its side under the hedge. We continue on past the car park and round by the cattle shed stopping a while watching and listening for any signs of birds, to the east the dark sky is beginning to lighten up as the sun breaks the horizon With the glow of the morning sun ahead of us we take the path toward the bird feeders along the North side of the sodden field from all the

Bowers walks  25th December and 1st January  25/12/2020 Christmas morning a crisp and close to freezing morning and as the gates and car park were closed we parked the car on the side of the road further down from St Margarets church and past the railway bridge, we prepared ourselves for our walk on the anti clockwise route toward Great Pound Point and beyond. We set off the time 08-35 along the track avoiding the puddles and mud just as the sun is breaking the horizon behind us it was still quite dark and very quiet, we caught sight of the odd Gull, Pigeon and Crow flying across the sky overhead and we could hear birds beginning to sing, particularly the Robins. As we reached the first sharp left of the track the sky is a lovely pale blue and pink as the sun was rising through the clouds to the east we continued along the path where to our right in the wet meadow there are a number of ponies feeding on the grass and the sound of honking Geese and quacking Ducks on the ponds in the we