Spring comes to Burdale pond

Burdale Pond

Monday 20th April 2015

About half way between Fimber and Thixendale, there is a triangular grass area near Burdale House Farm, which has the appearance of a village green - but no village. Next to this is a beautiful pond, marked on the O.S. map as a spring. I quite liked the location, steep hills all around with the pond in the middle of a bowl and spring trees coming into leaf reflecting in the water. There are two ducks in the picture under the trees on the left. I waited about fifteen minutes for one of them to swim into the centre of the picture, but they refused!