Coate Water Park (Friday 11th April 2025)

I've been meaning to revisit Coate Water Park for awhile, but it wasn't until I returned from there today that I discovered it has been a year since my last visit. The day seemed warm. I walked around the Lake anti-clockwise but arrived at the café at its busiest time, so skipped lunch. I didn't see any great crested grebes, egrets or herons and I missed their black swan, who has passed on, but I did see swans building nests, orange tip butterflies, bumble bees and a couple of cormorants. I called in at Wootton Bassett's Aldi for a ploughman's sandwich on the way home.

Looks better in Large.

L.
Friday 11.4.2025 (1929 hr)

Blip #4247 (#3997 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2025 #045/265 + 040/100 Extras
Day #5498 (1447 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3386 (#3226 + 160 in archived blips)

Swans series
Swindon series
Coate Water Park series

Coate Water Park, 11 April 2025 (Flickr album of 41 items)

Taken with Pentax K-50 (Red) and Pentax smc P-DA 18-135mm F3.5-5.6ED AL[IF] DC WR lens

Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Galactic and Irma Thomas - How Glad I Am (2025)
I knew this song by Nancy Wilson, a big hit for her in 1964, so I was pleased to hear this new version from the forthcoming album Audience With The Queen, played on this week's Blues Show (R2). Irma Thomas is known as the Soul Queen of New Orleans (although born in Ponchatoula  LA).