Fiona had a Bollywood dance class while Ciaran and I went to badminton. Now that I have some grip back its rematch time!
Once we had all finished our respective activities we met up for a session of table tennis.
Ciaran seems to have all the moves with an elaborate Chinese style grip, but in reality I think we spent as much time picking up the ball as we did playing, something which seemed common between all the tables and the short tennis courts alongside.
After an early dinner we had a nature walk - 'What's out at dark'
It was quite interesting but apart from ducks and a glimpse at the badgers we didn't actually see anything. A woodpecker was pointed out fleeing from our approach, and the bat boxes were all empty. We did learn about the red squirrels - Whinfell is one of 6 red squirrel sanctuaries with paid 'wardens' who will actually cull any grey squirrel found - and ducks - the mallards will produce mainly males if food is plentiful and will have to be culled to ensure breeding and there is a set of albino mallards and their descendants on the lake.
The badgers have their own TV channel - there is a webcam feed into all the houses. We had seen it but never saw any activity and had only figured out it was a live feed on Tuesday.
Their sett and webcam is just down from where our cabin is and as we passed two badgers were out but low light and distance means blurry photos.
We also found out that the noisy bird outside our cabin is a partridge.
