NEW! Foxhill Bank Nature Reserve website - Page 2

garinda · 28-06-2006, 13:34

Any more pics on your site Kipax? Looks good.

I did see you wandering about whilst I was sat in bed watching Trisha, but thought if I shouted out of the window I would have frightened both you and the wildlife.

KIPAX · 28-06-2006, 13:42

Am doing the pics in a mo to put onsite.. got lots of different ones and some wildlife.... Didn't ya see my missus as well ?

Gayle · 30-06-2006, 06:10

Ironically, although I live closest to the entrance of the reserve the one thing I don't have is a view of it from my house. I'm about 20ft from the entrance but have a gable end pointing at it so envy Garinda's splendid view.

I have to admit that I've lived in Ossy most of my life but didn't know the place existed until about six years ago. I would take a guess that a lot of people in Ossy don't know it exists.

garinda · 30-06-2006, 07:23

It is somewhere we came to walk before I moved here.

We were walking through it at Easter two years ago when I'd just moved back home, when we saw the for sale sign whilst looking up from the benches.

Happily because the estate agent was closed over Easter we shoved a note through the door saying we'd like to view it and left our phone number. I was the first person to look round and because houses were selling very fast then made him an offer. I told him I would be paying cash and he even knocked something off the price thinking he was going to get a carrier bag full of notes!

Mine and next door are probably the only houses that can see the lodges all year round because there is a gap in the trees. Last night I lay on the sofa with the front door open watching the swallows dive en masse over the water. This morning I awoke and sat up in bed to see the Heron in it's usual place by the little island.

I feel very lucky living here, nice views and smashing neighbours, something I never had whilst living in cities.

Basher · 30-06-2006, 07:48

Nice informative site, with the corrections mentioned by others it'll be even better, love the gallery bit and can't wait until there is more images in it.

I may well go have a snoop around this weekend.

harwood red · 01-07-2006, 07:47

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Originally Posted by garinda

This morning I awoke and sat up in bed to see the Heron in it's usual place by the little island.

You sure that bl**dy heron's not plastic????

K.S.H · 01-07-2006, 09:13

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Originally Posted by harwood red

You sure that bl**dy heron's not plastic????

Not unless someone flies it like a kite as we see it flying over our house regular

It has a few feeding sites, its on the nature reserve, flies up to the "Antley syke" mid morning - see another thread about this

goes to the bubble factory lodge and see if flying towards Accrington from there, don't know where it lands though, seems to be heading in the direction off haggs lodge but thats only a guess. We see it last night on someones rooftop and was eyeing up the property owners fishpond

or it was after a mate as he also has a plastic heron next to his pond.

KIPAX · 01-07-2006, 09:24

It was a looong way away when i took the pick... the other side of the lodge and then back some near top of trees. 420mm lens and still had to crop all the way in..

katex · 01-07-2006, 11:29

Am definitely going to try and find this place during one lunch time next week and take a look. Will I need wellies, usually have stilettoes on at work and don't wish to leave behind in what looks like marshy ground ?.

A refreshing glass of lemonade would be welcome Garinda

Think that Heron comes to visit my lodge later, see it most days, their very timid, slightest movement and its off ... woe betide another Heron though if it tries to land on its territory .. look delicate, don't they ? Wanna'see 'em fight

Plastic

that's was very funny H-R. Thought of Garinda waking up every morning and believing was real and turns out to be plastic.

Madhatter · 01-07-2006, 21:57

What is a lodge and what is it for ?

Madhatter · 01-07-2006, 21:58

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Originally Posted by katex

Am definitely going to try and find this place during one lunch time next week and take a look. Will I need wellies, usually have stilettoes on at work and don't wish to leave behind in what looks like marshy ground ?.

A refreshing glass of lemonade would be welcome Garinda

Think that Heron comes to visit my lodge later, see it most days, their very timid, slightest movement and its off ... woe betide another Heron though if it tries to land on its territory .. look delicate, don't they ? Wanna'see 'em fight

Plastic

that's was very funny H-R. Thought of Garinda waking up every morning and believing was real and turns out to be plastic.

fighting is bad, you shouldn't want to see fights, you naughty girl.

garinda · 01-07-2006, 22:18

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Originally Posted by Madhatter

What is a lodge and what is it for ?

I think originally it was a lodge for a print works at Church. It tells you the history on the website I think.

No, the Heron ain't plastic, unless it has batteries and also flies off after Trisha has finished.

Why don't Herons deliver something interesting, like Storks do? Instead of just flying off somewhere else looking out for a well stocked pond?

Madhatter · 01-07-2006, 22:23

yes but what is a lodge, to me a lodge is a building on the entrance to the estate here.

katex · 01-07-2006, 22:26

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Originally Posted by Madhatter

yes but what is a lodge, to me a lodge is a building on the entrance to the estate here.

An expanse of man made water, bigger than a puddle, smaller than a lake, get it ? Textile industries always had to have water available for various processes along the line, mainly when the boilers were steam driven, but bleaching needs plenty.