This is where I take my two dogs for a walk. Its only a short walk from where I live but seems very isolated so usually I don’t go if its too foggy for raining, or too early in the morning. On this particular day it was foggy but had cleared up a little by the time I went out, before school starts as one of my dogs is very nervous of people and tends to bark at the kids. When I got up that morning the fog was so thick I could barely see the end of the garden shed, which is about 20 feet away from our kitchen window. By the time I had finished my breakfast and fed the dogs it had cleared up a enough for me to take them out.
In this photo, which I decided to leave in colour, shows the actual Red River, which in fact, is just a stream. The reason its called Red River is that sometimes it gets quite high when we have had lots of rain. And the reason for the ‘Red’ is that there is lots of iron in the water that has turned it a slight red colour. There was a lot of mining in the area years ago, now all gone and this used to be part of just one of the mines, I believe. There is a pond further along the path that some ducks and Moorhens use, but the pond often dries up in the summer if there hasn’t been a lot of rain.
There is quite a lot of other bird wildlife on this reserve from Robins to Blue and Great Tits, squirrels, and the odd Fox. We often hear Barn Owls as well at night. And we do get Bats in our garden during the summer.
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