Had a wander down from Chorlton to Sale Water Park this afternoon. Ivy Green was dead quiet and Chorlton Ees wasn't much better, aside from the occasional contact call or bunch of leaves moving the wrong way you wouldn't think there were any birds about at all.
It was only when I got to where Cholrton Ees meets Hardy Farm that things got busier, starting with a buzzard flying close overhead as it was being mobbed by a carrion crow.
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| Carrion crow mobbing a buzzard, Chorlton Ees |
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| Carrion crow mobbing a buzzard, Chorlton Ees |
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| Buzzard, Chorlton Ees |
Just across the river from Jackson's Boat there's a small copse of apple trees (including a russet, a Golden Delicious type and a nice rose-red apple, all the results of people chucking their apple cores away); these and the elderberry bushes by them were full of chaffinches, blue tits and blackcaps.
Carrying on down to Sale Water Park a swimming competition meant there wasn't much wildfowl on the water. There was some consolation at the feeding station by the visitor centre with plenty of blue, great and coal tits, a pair of nuthatches and a quick visit from a male great spotted woodpecker. No joy sign of any willow tits but they're always at their most elusive this time of year.
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| Great spotted woodpecker |
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