The River Hull, Tickton
(c) Image Copyright Ian Sykes (see below)
Last Tuesday’s hot sunny afternoon brought Nature out in all its glory. I just had to get out of the house and set off to Tickton for a ramble along the River Hull with friends.
It should have been a short journey, but the road works and delays on the A164 put paid to that. We arrived a little late, but everyone was in high spirits.
It was warm and humid. High-flying swifts darted through the azure skies. Only the huge roar of jet engines overhead could momentarily break the silence of this idyllic scene straight from a Constable masterpiece. You know, cattle munching grass in the meadow, oil seed rape and wheat struggling in the fields, having endured drought and a long hard winter. Yellow irises colouring the river bank were a sign of the regeneration taking place.
River Hull looking towards Pulfin Bog
Our arrival at Pulfin Bog further down the river bank was a sheer delight; lots of trees and wildflowers – but the decay of Ash trees set against green flashes of foliage was a sad sight to behold.
One highlight of the afternoon was observing a flotilla of geese led by a rogue swan! A surprising example of entrepreneurship perhaps, whilst his fellow swans were lazing in the warm afternoon sun.
A long-tailed tit
But the “The jewel in the crown” was the long-tailed tits flitting from branch to branch accompanied by the melodious tone of a thrush!
My river bank trail was just the tonic to shake off the winter-time blues as we hopefully enter summer.
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