Coate Water Park (Friday 28th October 2022)

It was a day without commitments and the forecast was good so I set off at lunchtime for a last visit to Coate before we return to Greenwich Mean Time at the weekend. I spent a pleasant hour and a half there after a picnic by the canal at Wichelstowe. I noticed that even at four o'clock the light was going fast in shaded areas. There were far fewer birds than on my last visit, though I did see herons, cormorants and the resident female black swan (in Extras).

When I first saw the black swan I got a "camera card full" message, and the first spare card wasn't accepted, and by the time I'd formatted a second spare, she'd swum over to the far side of the lake, but I caught up with her half an hour later.

An album will follow when I've processed the many shots I took.

L.
Friday 28.10.2022 (1909 hr)

Blip #3759 (#3509 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2022 #194/265 + #085/100 Extras
Day #4601 (1100 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2901 (#2741 + 160 in archived blips)

Taken with Pentax K-50 (Yellow) and Sigma AF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG Macro lens

Swindon series
Birds series
Coate Water Park series
Geese series

A Visit To Wichelstowe, 28 October 2022 (Flickr album of 13 photos)
Coate Water Park, 28 October 2022 (Flickr album of // photos)(Work in progress)

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Jerry Lee Lewis - Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee (recorded 5 February 1957, Memphis TN, for Sun Records)
R.I.P. Jerry Lee Lewis (29 September 1935, Ferriday LA - 28 October 2022, Nesbit MI)
This was the first non-religious song to be publically performed by Jerry Lee, back in 1949, and was regularly performed by him throughout his lengthy career, so can be considered a signature tune. Due to its subject matter this Sun recording from 1957 didn't see the light of day until 1971 on an album. Another studio recording of it from 1958 stayed in the vaults until 1983, so its first actual release was a 1963 cut made for Smash Records, one of the highlights of the 1966 album Memphis Beat. Finally a new version from 1973 was released as a single and reached the US top forty. The original recorded version by Stick McGhee came out in 1947.