Local patch

Golden rod, Barton Clough

I've only had a couple of wanders round the local patch this month, both at teatime, and there wasn't much doing. I thought I'd have a mid-afternoon nosy to see what was about and after an hour the answer was: hardly anything. Had it not been for a lot of furtive squeaks and rustling in the last bush I looked at I wouldn't have managed a double-figure total. Desperately quiet, even by August lull standards.

• 2 Black-headed Gull overhead
• 2 Blackbird
• 1 Blue Tit
• 2 Carrion Crow
• 1 Chaffinch
• 1 Feral Pigeon overhead
• 1 Goldfinch
• 1 Greenfinch
• 3 Lesser Black-backed Gull overhead
• 4 Magpie
• 9 Woodpigeon

Blackberries, Barton Clough