Joe's Pond
May. 22nd, 2025 05:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustFor once it was durham_rambler who suggested that we take Tuesday afternoon off, and go out. What's more, he knew where he wanted to go: his social media had been showing him pictures of Joe's Pond, and the adjacent nature reserve at Rainton Meadows.
This is post-industrial landscape: the nature reserve was created by the restoration of the Rye Hill Opencast coal mine, and Joe's Pond is a former clay pit, now a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a very pleasant place to walk around on a sunny afternoon. There's a swan on her nest, and another preening by the path, who hissed at us as we passed. There were some coot, but they were camera-shy. The hawthorn was in bloom, and the yellow irises were just emerging.
And we called at a farm shop on our way home.
durham_rambler who suggested that we take Tuesday afternoon off, and go out. What's more, he knew where he wanted to go: his social media had been showing him pictures of Joe's Pond, and the adjacent nature reserve at Rainton Meadows. This is post-industrial landscape: the nature reserve was created by the restoration of the Rye Hill Opencast coal mine, and Joe's Pond is a former clay pit, now a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a very pleasant place to walk around on a sunny afternoon. There's a swan on her nest, and another preening by the path, who hissed at us as we passed. There were some coot, but they were camera-shy. The hawthorn was in bloom, and the yellow irises were just emerging.
And we called at a farm shop on our way home.
