More November

For the interested ⬅️ that’s a link. I used to have it at the top of every page but it vanished & I don’t know how to put it back.

Carrying On With Catching Up

Just by the way: I hardly look at twitter now – since Elon – and have begun to use Mastodon.

I also have Facebook, Instagram and even TikTok but I’m not very prolific on any of ’em.

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Wednesday the Sixteenth of November

This is the bossy one of the two greylag gooses.

The cygnets are almost as big as their parents now but still have a lot of dark feathers remaining. They squabble a lot if in close proximity.

Saint John’s wort flower budding in November!

Floating down the canal in isolation.

Lots of lichen showing on the now leafless trees and bushes.

Gulls squabble when one has stolen a titbit from the pond.

Walking along from Morse lock toward Worksop town

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Friday the Eighteenth of November

The pond from the top.

Don’t know whether this is the cob or the pen. I believe that the size of the black bump at the top of the beak is some indication but I’m not sure.

Are you growing bored with Jew’s Ear fungi yet?

Justin case you answered no to the previous caption here’s another Judas’ Ear.

This is the cascade at the top of Stret Lock bywash. Taken with long exposure to smear out the flow.

Bywashes could have been smooth from top to bottom but were intentionally rough or turbulent to oxygenate the water.

Ivy climbs trees, walls and cliffs by growing zillions of tiny roots and anchoring with them as it rises.

Now that’s what you could call a wet floor!

Moss on lock arm

Mahonia flowers in the Lock Keeper pub car park.

Rather abstract view of the reflection of an industrial building rippling in the canal.

The pond from high above, Swan!

Towpath

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Saturday the 19th

Ducks, that’s all, just ducks!

The Pond

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Sunday the Twentieth

There aren’t as many sloes on the blackthorn bushes as there have been in earlier years but what there are are big and juicy.

There are still raspberries in the school grouds.

Fungi up a branch

Mossy elder branch.

Dunnock at the canal milestone

Dead thistle flowers.

Pond

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Monday 21^st November

As I have noted earlier: as the leaves fall, lichens and mosses become more visible. Here’s an instance of yellow and white lichen co-existing with starry moss.

A blackbird probing the grass at the edge of Morse Lock.

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Tuesday the Twenty-second of November

I don’t know if this is grass or reed but it’s pretty as it arches over the water.

The rugose bark of silver birch is so different from the smooth silver of its youth.

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Wed 23 Nov

Once again: this is my first view of the pond some fifty metres from my door.

This day a cormorant joined the resident grebes.

It didn’t stay for long: here it’s about to take flight.

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