A warm welcome to this week’s blog update and this week
it comes with a bit of a difference as it will be an update that will not
feature any angling from this week as basically the put it bluntly there hasn’t
been any hehe. Last weekend the country
was thick with snow and all the venues locally where cased in a layer of ice. The conditions we were faced with on the
morning of the planned trip just meant it wasn’t worth the risk to even make
the journey to pick my uncle up given the gradient of the hill at his
house. I did think whether it was worth doing
a blog update this week but I think it does no harm to keep in the routine and also
it gives me an opportunity to devote a small update to a side of myself I try
to portray in my angling updates but find it hard to do well given the nature
of the fishing I do and that is my love of wildlife. So in this update I hope to show you some of
the different ways I feed my love of both British and wildlife form around the
world.
Spring???
Before me move onto the meat and bones of this update it
is with great pride I share with you that the blog made the top 10 blogs list
for march 2013 on the Angling Gazette Website.
The piece they wrote about the blog was really nice and although I don’t
see writing this blog as anything more than an add on to my fishing it really
moved me to read someone else saying such nice things about a blog I write and
it really did mean a lot to myself.
Thank you so much to Angling Gazette for picking my blog out for
recognition and congratulations to all the other blogs on that list.
Here is the write up it received:
We absolutely love this blog. On it you can follow the exploits
of Danny, his dad and his uncle as they go on fishing trips around the north
west of England. They catch everything from Dace to Carp and have some
brilliant images of the river Dee in the gallery. This site captures the true
spirit of blogging and we can see why Danny’s blog has had over 67,000 views
And here is a link to the page on their website where you
can view all the other blogs represented in the March 2013 list: http://www.anglinggazette.co.uk/the-best-10-angling-blogs-weve-read-this-month-march-2013/
I would also like the thank the people who run the
Twitter account at Angling Gazette for their promotion of all Amateur Blogs as
they regularly Retweet blog update Tweets from the many blogs on the internet
and I would like to say a big thank you too them for taking the time to do
this.
Chester Zoo
Trip 2013
Chester Zoo is a place I have visited every year of my
life, even as a kid it was a once a year trip during the summer holidays to
this place. It was a place that allowed
me to see the all the animals I was watching on David Attenborough’s Wildlife
on One in the flesh and has always been a place that has captured my
imagination and still continues to do so.
As many of you will know last Wednesday last week was
budget day and it was also a strike day for many civil servants across the
country. Many of the long term followers
of the blog will remember I went fishing on the one a year or so back but this
year with a family your plans and thinking change and a day off from work that coincided
with my partners day free day was only going to mean one thing in my eyes and that
was a family day out to Chester zoo. At
this time of year you miss the hustle and bustle that goes with the summer
trips where you can barely move and spend any amount of time looking at the
animals before feeling you are ruining someone else view or taking too much
time. At this time of year most of the
animals are out and about and it is quiet enough for you to spend a decent
amount of time looking at the animals in peace.
This year has been a extraordinary year at the zoo with so many babies
being born with the Rhinos, elephants and giraffes being the main attractions.
Here are a few of the pictures we took on the day.
One thing I love about Chester Zoo is how they reinvest
the money back into to Zoo, each year there is something new opening and it is
always great to see how they also put money back into conservation of endangered
species both in captive breeding programmes and in the wild, a truly remarkable
place to visit and one I hold many fond memories of and highly recommend.
Dyfi Osprey
Project
Towards the end of last year a good friend of mine in
work opened my eyes to the magnificent world of the Dyfi osprey Project and its
pair of breeding Ospreys, Monty and Nora.
When I was introduced to this Facebook page last year it was coming
towards the end of their breeding cycle and the birds and their young were just
about ready to migrate back to Africa but those last few weeks I spent watching
the lives of these magnificent birds stole a place in my heart and from the moment
they migrated I longed for their return and I am pleased to say they are due
back any time soon and I cannot wait to experience a whole breeding season with
this lovely birds.
If you are on Facebook you can keep up with this project
on the following link:
They also have a website here: http://dyfiospreyproject.com/
I hope you will enjoy checking out my new found friends
and get as much enjoyment from this as I will this year.
Nottingham
University Peregrine Falcons
Again introduced to me by the same good friend in work
and this one is a new one this year for me and is a webcam set up by Nottingham
University to watch a pair of falcons that call the rooftops of this university
home. This, as I said, is a new one for
me this season and I am really looking forward to having an insight into the
nest of what is in my eyes the greatest of all birds of prey.
Here is a link to the site: http://www.ntu.ac.uk/ecoweb/biodiversity/falcons/index.html
Falconry in the
blood
As you can probably tell I hold a special place for birds
of prey and I was fortunate enough to have been bought a falconry experience
day by my mum and dad for my 21st birthday. I was really apprehensive about the day but
it really was a special day and I couldn’t thank my mum and dad enough for
their thoughtful gift. I went to Cheshire
Falconry for this day experience and I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed
it. If getting close to these birds or
even flying them is something you think you would like to do then I really recommend
this place.
Here is a link to their site: http://www.cheshirefalconry.com/falconry_taster.htm?gclid=CN_YmrGFo7YCFcHHtAodRjAAEA
Any that is that for this week’s update I am sorry it
wasn’t the normal update I write but it is an update I have wanted to cover for
some time now and this gap in the fishing gave me a little gap to put this
together I hoped you liked it and I hope if you are out on the bank this
weekend then it’s a huge
Tight lines
danny
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