Nipped into Reach Lode

Today – GOBA Moorings (A1123 br) to Wicken Lode Junction, River Cam and Reach Lode, 2 miles 0 locks Wed 25th – Nr Little Thetford to GOBA Moorings, 2.5 miles 0 locks Tues 24th – Moored Nr Little Thetford

Well I am trying hard to catch up on my blog, emails and comments here, but I have another project on the go at the moment taking all my time up! Hopefully soon I will be able to direct all my energy to where i should be! Tuesday was wet and windy, and we were pleased to stay put and watch one or two brave narrowboaters pass us by with winter coats and wet gear on…. In the evening it did calm somewhat, which enabled Lucy and I to take off over the countryside yet again.. it was a nice mooring there belonging to EA.

Wednesday was better and we moved down and on to the Cam itself. I hadn’t seen an oystercatcher since I was on the River Ouse last summer, but a walk from the Goba mooring by the bridge took me through a cow field with, to my surprise, an oystercatcher seemingly quite at home with grazing cattle! Bloomin’ cattle gave me grief too… all youngsters, finding chastising a human being great fun… not so for me though…. thank goodness I had my walking stick with me… they did at least respect my overhead walking stick swinging!!

Today thought we would take a quick look at Wicken Lode… a nature reserve, a great nature reserve… but I want to leave actually going down to the bottom of that until we return after visiting Cambridge, but of course, I couldn’t resist walking the whole way to the bottom… Oh boy wasn’t I well rewarded… this then my backyard today pic

I have never seen a cuckoo in my life, always chasing the sound to get a glimpse of one, never seeing the naughty bird who waits for a different bird to leave a nest, flies in, chucks an egg out and lays her own.. the emerging chick either chucking out the other eggs or chicks to be brought up by the ‘substitute’ mum… but today I saw a cuckoo, in fact I even got a pic of it! It’s not the best pic in the world, but I’ll put it in the wildlife album later

Another sighting today a red kite… unusual for this area.. I only knew it was a red kite when I met a ‘twitcher’ also looking at the bird, I asked him what it was! Oh yes, nearly forgot, yesterday a barn owl… hunting near the mooring…. hey I better watch out I am sounding more like a twitcher every day here!!

Annie… You would go mental here, the walking is the best yet, hey get that Moore2Life lifted on a lorry and plonk it down here!

When we return it’s gonna be hard for Vic to prise me away from this place!