Linseed harvest
During a sunny interval a Red Admiral feeds on the flowers of a shrub in the car park of a riverside pub.
The linseed harvest is underway in a canal-side field at Stanley Ferry, near Wakefield.
Mushrooms grow in the pasture and a red blobby fungus on the crust of the cow pats.
A dug-out canoe was found during the excavations for the foundations of the Stanley Ferry Aqueduct in 1835. It was hewn out of a single log, probably oak, it is 18 feet long and is unusual in having struts. It is now kept in the collection of the Yorkshire Museum in York.
Monday 19th October 1998, Richard Bell's Nature Diary
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