An overcast February afternoon and our choices were to stay at home and watch an old film on TV or visit a local hostelry to listen to a blues band at a cost of £8 each or a walk around Wrawby.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/roe-deer.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1584" alt="roe-deer" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/roe-deer-200x152.jpg" width="200" height="152" /></a>We decided on the walk and we were well rewarded with wildlife. Our first spot was a number of hares chasing each other across the fields shortly followed by a group of Roe deer that ran out of a stand of trees and didn't stop until they were out of sight.

Later on as we were walking alongside the Ancholme river we saw a band of six herons on the edge of a filed, quite a sight when they took off.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/river-measure.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1585" alt="river-measure" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/river-measure-200x150.jpg" width="200" height="150" /></a>As the Ancholme river approached a bridge of the M180 we came across the sign. At first we couldn't figure out why the depth got less as the river rose up the sign. When the river is at its current level it says 4.4 metres and as it rises to the top it says 2.9 metres - why? We soon figured out that it was indicating the headroom to get under the bridge and of course the higher the river level the lower the headroom - simples.

After two hours of walking having covered 7 miles we were pleased to get home to a delicious cup of Earl Grey and a slice of toasted cranberry and pumpkin bread - heaven.