Sale Water Park

Mallard March had been doing that coming in like a lamb and going out like a lion rubbish again. A night of ferocious horizontal rain was fo...

Mersey Valley

Heron, Broad Ees Dole Spring passage is a process of overlapping waves, just as much as it's about the arrival of Summer visitors it's also...

Mersey Valley

Kingfisher, Broad Ees Dole Getting to half-past January without having seen a goldcrest seems a bit off somehow so it came as a relief to fi...

Mersey Valley

Mallards, Jackson's Boat Yesterday at dawn there were 79 black-headed gulls on the school playing field, today there were just sixteen. If t...

Mersey Valley

Mallard, River Mersey It was a cooler, grey day and I felt like having a lazy morning of it. Magpies rattled in the rowan tree, they seem to...

Mersey Valley

Mandarin ducks on the Mersey The day, cloudy and warm but significantly cooler than the past few days, started with a coal tit on the sunflo...

A sunny afternoon walk over Stretford Meadows and drifting round to Sale Water Park.

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Mersey Valley

Kestrel, Stretford Meadows  I wasn't feeling particularly energetic today so I opted for a short toddle over Stretford Meadows in the Spring...

Mersey Valley

Mute swans, Sale Water Park  It was a cooler, cloudier day with a definite edge to the wind. The business of the day was done by lunchtime s...

A wander down the Mersey Valley from Stretford to Sale Water Park, an interlude watching willow tits and a walk through Platt Fields on the way home.

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Mersey Valley

Willow tit, Sale Water Park  I'd had an early start to the day then found I had unexpectedly got a free day after all. All my instincts were...