Brought Back Down To Earth

 After Tuesday it was always going to be a bit of an anti-climax whatever I decided to do, I just didn't expect it to be quite so bad! Once again I misguidedly put my trust in the good people at Stagecoach and once again that trust was misplaced. My bus to Wellingborough eventually arrived some twenty minutes late which did not impress my fellow travellers at all who for the most part were heading to work. It was a discontented and frustrated group of passengers that filed on to the bus, this was apparently the fourth time this week that a tardy bus has made people late. An angry woman sitting in front of me was talking to an irate woman to my left, from what I gather Stagecoach will be receiving more than a few complaints in the immediate future! I didn't join in as my commute mercifully doesn't require Stagecoach's erratic services, it's only my leisure that they take some of the pleasure out of. 

Stonechat and Spitfire

Eventually the bus pulled into Wellingborough and I was glad to get off, the fetid air, a miasma of farts, yesterday's garlic and a melange of deodorants and perfumes made even the traffic tainted air of Welly town centre seem fresh. I made my way down to the Embankment from where I followed the Nene towards Ditchford. A pair of Stonechats were present in a field on the edge of town, this area is quite a reliable wintering spot for them. It pretty much went downhill from there as on my stroll between here and Ditchford Lane I saw nothing other than a Spitfire to keep me entertained. On my return trudge I noted that a growing number of large gulls were gathering at Chester House Lake and I stopped to go through them. To my eyes I picked out a first calendar year Caspian and a similarly plumaged Yellow-legged Gull. While taking some record shots my camera stopped working and appears to have developed a terminal fault, one further shovelful of what was becoming an ever increasing pile of s***! My bus ride home was relatively punctual by recent standards and I took the opportunity to look at cameras on Ebay.

Caspian and Yellow-legged Gulls....possibly!