Lazy Friday

Blue tit, Leighton Moss  Quite what the blackbird was about, starting singing at half three in the morning, but he gave it a good hour befor...

Leighton Moss

Pintails, mallards and teal I would have put good money on my first words of the day not being: "Where's your tail?" As I opened the front d...

Leighton Moss

Redwing It was a cool, grey day. I got the morning's errands sorted and set out for a day out, using one of my Delay Repay compensatory retu...

Leighton Moss

Teal It was a rainy start to the day with the promise of its becoming finer and it was very mild for the approach to mid-December. I thought...

Leighton Moss

Shovelers  There was a good start to the day today with an adult yellow-legged gull landing amongst the assorted herring gulls on the school...

Leighton Moss

Coal tits and chaffinch  We're not into the cold, wet weather yet and I'm already walking about like I'm on dodgy stilts. After a lazy day y...

Leighton Moss

Goldcrest It was another dull, cool morning. I'd had a really good sleep, getting four hours' uninterrupted in the wee small hours, and was ...

Footpath through the reedbeds at Leighton Moss.

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Leighton Moss

Black-tailed godwits, black-headed gulls and avocets Another nice, not too warm yet, day so I got myself an old man's explorer ticket and he...

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Black-headed gulls and Sandwich terns I had a pile of Go Anywhere On Northern return tickets burning a hole in my pocket with more on the wa...