Mastodawn

A Saturday afternoon potter about Wellacre Country Park and a look at Irlam Locks.

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Flixton

Black-headed gull and common tern, Irlam Locks It was a grey and gloomy sort of day with the sun making occasional weak attempts at glowing ...

Steven Heywood Apr 19

That time of year where you get two or three seasons a day.

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A game of two halves

Sand martins, Irlam Locks It was a day for having curry for breakfast. The forecast unpleasant weather duly arrived, the spadgers sulked in ...

Steven Heywood Mar 22

A Saturday afternoon wander.

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Urmston and Irlam

Teal, Davyhulme Millennium Nature Reserve It was another fine May morning in March. I woke to the dawn chorus, missing the blackbird but cat...

Steven Heywood Feb 23

Pottering about on a sunny Sunday afternoon.

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Pottering about

I was suspicious of another sunny day. The knees creaked and my flat cap needed another dose of air refreshener to stop it smelling quite so...

Steven Heywood Dec 1, 2025

A walk along Irlam Locks.

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Irlam Locks

Black-headed gulls It was a bright sunny morning and I'd had two hours' sleep. The usual array of a dozen black-headed gulls danced for wor...

Steven Heywood Nov 2, 2025

A dawdle round Irlam Locks.

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Irlam Locks

Fieldfare November started with a ferocious wind and teeming rain that calmed down a couple of hours after dawn. The sun came out for an hou...

Steven Heywood Sep 13, 2025

A stroll through Flixton to Wellacre Country Park and Irlam Locks.

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Wellacre Country Park

Swallow It was another of those sunshine and shower days, though without the thunderstorms. Each time I put my boots on to go out the sunshi...

Steven Heywood Aug 6, 2025

An evening stroll by Irlam Locks.

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Irlam Locks

Juvenile heron After a sadly eventful day (I had to take the cat to the vet's and come home without her) I was in need of distraction. There...

Steven Heywood Jul 13, 2025

A late teatime dawdle by Irlam Locks.

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Irlam Locks

Sand martins It was warm again and the pollen count was very high, neither condition likely to make walking very enticing. The small birds w...

Steven Heywood May 18, 2025

Saturday afternoon in Irlam.

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Irlam

Common tern, Irlam Locks It was an almost cloudy morning. The blackcap in the back garden has gone quiet, which I hope means he's busy. The ...