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| Hardy Farm |
A combination of Sunday public transport timetables and family commitments limits the options for what you can do with a sunny Sunday so I ended up taking a walk round the local patch (which was considerably quieter than yesterday) then getting a bus and walking down from Hardy Farm back to Stretford.
It was a busy family Sunday so most of the bird life was being heard but not seen. A few mixed tit flocks worked their way through the hedgerows. The ring-necked parakeets were being invisibly shrill. A low-flying buzzard swooped over the path and quickly on over Chorlton Ees. Walking through Chorlton Ees it occurred to me that I've never seen a heron on any of the bits of water or brooks here, it's purely a roosting site for them.
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| Grey herons |
The River Mersey was very high still and both Hardy Farm and Chorlton Ees were very damp underfoot. Just how damp became evident when I got to Turn Moss.
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| Rain stopped play (for nearly everyone) |
A couple of hundred black-headed gulls were playing in the puddles together with a couple of dozen common gulls and a handful of lesser black-backs and herring gulls.
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