One of my resolutions this year is to get out and about more, so on Wednesday with dry weather forecast we headed out to somewhere new. There's no longer a village at Church Wilne - just a twisting narrow country lane leading to the old church of St Chad, and, on the opposite side of the road, a small lake called St Chad's Water, which is a nature reserve with car park and a path around the water.
We seem to have walked round every park and nature reserve within a short drive, so I was delighted to stumble across somewhere new (through the not-necessarily-reliable method of zooming around on Google maps satellite view)
It's a larger body of water than Swan Lake which we frequently visit, but with less birds - maybe because there are less visitors feeding them. We definitely spotted moorhens, mallards, black-headed gulls, and half a dozen swans, and possibly a heron.
Despite warnings about damage to the path from recent floods, the footing was good and dry, and there are several seats on the way round - it wasn't really the weather to entice me to sit a while though - maybe I'll be back in summer.
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