A dull, autumn day, walking around Ryton Pools and these are just a few snapshots from a fairly long walk.
It used to be a landfill site, they have done a good job restoring it back to a natural environment.
The swan sanctuary
and then we enter the bird hide where we can see more swans and some mallards.
This path leads to Wappenbury woods and even though we won't be going into the woods today, we walk along here for a while.
Good view of the lake from here
When I first saw these from a distance I thought they were berries, but they are tiny red flowers - don't know what they are called, but they are gorgeous.
This is the actual site of the landfill, some black sheep grazing here today.
Getting ready for Halloween.
It's a good walk, a mixture of woodland
and lakes.
The sand martin wall: the holes in the front provide places for the birds to burrow into and nest in specially created chambers that mimic their natural nest sites.
One came near to say hello
And some more here. They were setting those up as we were leaving.
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