Another trip to St Aidans

Dragline Excavator used for open cast mining is the first thing

you will see when you arrive in the carpark at St Aidans.

Early this morning and the Sun is trying to break through the

Clouds

The first sighting of the day a Bearded Tit

Great Crested Grebe

Is it going to rain, thankfully no.

A lovely Kestral looking for its breakfast

Tufted Ducks

A nice couple of shovelers

Carrion Crow

A Sudden Invasion of Geese

And a dunnock on the way home

  • Wendy S said:
    Mike, Oddball,the walking digger, has its own web pages and friends group. I remember it working at Swillington, the original open cast mine on the site, before the River Aire started to leak into the pit. We often called in when coming back from RSPB Fairburn Ings. The area is riddled with mine subsidence from the past coal mines

    Mine subsidence since the demise of mining seems to be coming quite a big problem generally. We're starting to get a few reports of sink holes on some new build estates around here, and all over now disused coal mines. The interesting things is, only new builds, former farm land seem to be affected, currently as most of the existing houses are built away from the mine caverns/tunnels....