Fledgling House Martins

 

Lots of activity in the yard today as a brood of young House Martins

leave the safety of their of nest.

 

 

This little chap took some persuading to leave his perch....

 

 

 



Bird on a wire..... I fear for my washing today. 

Its directly below their flight path!

 

 

 

 



Fledgling House Martins

 

Lots of activity in the yard today as a brood of young House Martins

leave the safety of their of nest.

 

 

This little chap took some persuading to leave his perch....

 

 

 



Bird on a wire..... I fear for my washing today. 

Its directly below their flight path!

 

 

 

 



All is safely gathered in

 

Its been a long day in the hay fields and there's along night ahead

to get all 2000 bales undercover.

 

 

Modern machinery helps however ......

 

 

There's still a lot of manual labour required.

 

 

 

Trailer load after trailer load comes off the field to the hay sheds

 

 

and each bale is carefully stacked by hand till the huge hay sheds are full to the rafters.

Its a wonderful feeling when the hay is in and we know with certainty that there is enough

best quality feed to see us through the longest and hardest of winters. 

 



Hay Time at Pry House Farm

 

Its been a blistering hot day.  The sun was up and blazing at 5.30 this morning.

 

Breezy too so perfect hay making weather.

 

 

Rowing up with the Massey 35 and baling with the John Deere

 

 Leading in using a flat 8 grab clears the ground quickly.

 

 

 

 

 



Coast to Coast on Horseback

 

On Friday 24th June we were host to 7 horses, 6 riders and Brian the horsebox driver.

 

Mike Myers of Bigland Equine Group, South Lakes and five other riders are raising funds

 for the children's charity HorseHeard by riding Coast to Coast

on Cookie, Star, Jigsaw, Spirit, Fred, Bailey and Poppy.

To find out more about their work visit www.horseheard.com

 

 

 

 

Riders arrived tired and ........

 

 

...... horses arrived hungry.

 

 

Untacked the horses graze contentedly on the edge of our meadow

 before being turned out to pasture.

 

 

The group reflect on the day's trail whilst tucking into dinner

around the kitchen table at Pry House Farm.

 

 

 While they enjoyed dinner I couldn't resist popping out to see how

my four-legged guests were getting on in Firs High Pasture.

 

All perfectly happy.

 

 

 The next day was glorious and Spirit set off ahead to find a good vantage point 

as the whole trail is being filmed by his rider.

 

 

 

 

Some riders found our walls make excellent mounting blocks!

 



 After a few safety checks by Mike .....

 

 

..... they were off on the next leg.

 

 

 This is the third time we have had equine bed & breakfast guests at Pry House Farm.

It is always a pleasure to have horses on the farm. 

Hope you all enjoy the rest of the C2C and please come again.

For more photos & information about Pry House Farm, equine friendly B&B visit

www.upperswaledaleholidays.co.uk

 



Coast to Coast on Horseback

 

On Friday 24th June we were host to 7 horses, 6 riders and Brian the horsebox driver.

 

Mike Myers of Bigland Equine Group, South Lakes and five other riders are raising funds

 for the children's charity HorseHeard by riding Coast to Coast

on Cookie, Star, Jigsaw, Spirit, Fred, Bailey and Poppy.

To find out more about their work visit www.horseheard.com

 

 

 

 

Riders arrived tired and ........

 

 

...... horses arrived hungry.

 

 

Untacked the horses graze contentedly on the edge of our meadow

 before being turned out to pasture.

 

 

The group reflect on the day's trail whilst tucking into dinner

around the kitchen table at Pry House Farm.

 

 

 While they enjoyed dinner I couldn't resist popping out to see how

my four-legged guests were getting on in Firs High Pasture.

 

All perfectly happy.

 

 

 The next day was glorious and Spirit set off ahead to find a good vantage point 

as the whole trail is being filmed by his rider.

 

 

 

 

Some riders found our walls make excellent mounting blocks!

 



 After a few safety checks by Mike .....

 

 

..... they were off on the next leg.

 

 

 This is the third time we have had equine bed & breakfast guests at Pry House Farm.

It is always a pleasure to have horses on the farm.  Hope you all enjoy the rest of the C2C

and please come again when you do the trail again.

For more photos & information about Pry House Farm, equine friendly B&B visit

www.upperswaledaleholidays.co.uk

 



Baby Birds

 

There are still an abundance of birds all around the farm.

 

I was thrilled to catch these three young birds on camera.

 

If I haven't identified them correctly please let me know. 

Pry House Farm is perfect for bird watching - why not come and stay? http://www.upperswaledaleholidays.co.uk/

 

Fledgling Pied Wagtail

 



 

Young Skylark

 

Ugly duckling! 

No seriously, this lovely little duckling chick has lost its mum

and I found it swimming round and round in the trough in the yard. 

I've put him in the meadow and hopefully he will find his family.