Woody's Antics

She seemed to like the margarine best of all.

 

Garden Birds Today

 The woodpecker and I kept missing each other and I got only three frames all morning.

St Mary the Virgin, Great Shelford (2)

 Plenty of decoration on this church - crowned heads either side of the main east window, with commoners beside the aisle windows.  Gargoyle spouts to make up, and inside a rood screen for Our Lady's chapel.  The chancel roof is decorated; the bell tower is square and also contains the font.   

St Mary the Virgin, Great Shelford (1)

Another much-crenellated church, quite short and with a narrow chancel.  It has two side aisles, a C15th Panorama of Doom above the chancel arch and wooden carvings lit by the clerestory windows.  

 

Wicken Fen

My second visit to the Fen in a fortnight.  Raining most of the day; few insects and no Hobbies.  Plenty of Cuckoo activity and the Barn Owls were disturbed from the 'Mother' sculpture.  Our first view of Swifts this year.

 

It's the Pits Again!

 A few of the birds at Paxton today.  The cormorant looked as if it had lost its punt!

Takeaway Grub

 Our female woodpecker has made several visits to the feeders today.

St Andrew's, Girton

 The next parish to Oakington, Girton also has a church of Saint Andrew.  That's five in the district.  He got about a bit, did Scotland's patron saint!  This is the most crenellated church in the area, and neat but austere inside.  Refurbishment took place in 1853, and signs of repair can be seen on the north side.  Above the porch is a small room for private prayer; it is accessed by a steep and dangerous staircase lit by a quatrefoil window seen in pic. 5.  It was full of junk, including painted wood triptyches.  The churchyard is open to the world - no fence or wall.

St Andrew's, Oakington

 A church that makes a lot of music from the look of the amplifiers and music stands scattered around.  The chancel ceiling is painted rather than embossed.  Some lovingly-crafted woodwork adorns the church, especially the clever folding chairs beside the altar.  The east window shows St Andrew and St Ethelreda (holding a model of Ely Cathedral).