Katharine and I have just had two longer than usual days out - the summer Moorsbus service is back! Our day out yesterday didn't go quite as planned though, due to adverse weather. The plan was simple, we can catch the bus a few hundred yards from our house, and it takes us directly from York to the North York Moors.
We were due to leave the bus at Hutton le Hole for a short walk, but as we were approaching the village the rain was coming down, so we stayed on the bus over the moor tops and to the National Park centre at Danby. By that time the rain had stopped, so we had cake and cups of tea in the open air dining area.
One of the features of the outdoor dining area is the numbers of very tame garden birds who aren't slow to let you know that they would like to share your cake with you! Here a young sparrow is perched on the edge of a bench waiting patiently. I'm afraid we didn't feed him - feed one bird and there will soon be dozens of them around. But I did have fun taking photos of the different types of bird in the garden.
Fav. This is an amazing shot. Very difficult to find a small bird waiting for the photographer to get the focus and settings of the camera right before clicking the button. A very nice story to accompany this capture. Enjoy your moors buses.
Thank you all for your lovely comments and favs, they are very much appreciated.
It was good to visit the Moors again. Our plans were abandoned and the day was rather different to what we expected, but we still had an excellent day out. It was good to catch up with several people who we only ever see on the Moorsbus!
Thank you all for your lovely comments, they are very much appreciated. The birds outside the cafe here are quite tame as they seek to attract your attention and get you to feed them!
(it is a large park. Visit it several times a year.)
Even if it didn't go exactly to plan it sounds as though you enjoyed a good day out.
Thank you all for your lovely comments and favs, they are very much appreciated.
It was good to visit the Moors again. Our plans were abandoned and the day was rather different to what we expected, but we still had an excellent day out. It was good to catch up with several people who we only ever see on the Moorsbus!
Ian
Thank you all for your lovely comments, they are very much appreciated. The birds outside the cafe here are quite tame as they seek to attract your attention and get you to feed them!
Ian
Judging by the shape of this little bird, he had already had too much cake!
Ian