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| A tad damp |
The overnight rain had had its consequences, the morning trains cancelled due to floods and the gulls bathing in the lake that had been the school playing field. I'd opened the bedroom curtains to a grey wagtail strutting across the washhouse roof before flying over to feed on next door's lawn so I had no illusions but that it would be damp outside. I looked at the reports of floods all over and the record height of the river at Northenden and decided not to go for a walk along the river.
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| We played this game this time last year |
The sun came out for an hour at lunchtime, coinciding with torrential horizontal rain which chased the starlings out of the flooded field the other side of the railway and into the dubious cover of the embankment sycamores. Seeing them all clustered together explained how the suet pellets and mealworms disappeared so quickly.
Today's motley assemblage of gulls on the school playing field was thirteen black-headed gulls, three herring gulls, three lesser black-backs and a common gull. I was mildly surprised not to see any ducks.
The promise for the rest of the week is ice, wind and damp, which isn't putting off the collared dove and woodpigeons from singing.
- Black-headed gull 5 overhead
- Blackbird 1
- Carrion crow 1
- Collared dove 1
- Feral pigeon 3
- Grey wagtail 1
- House sparrow 8
- Jackdaw 2
- Lesser black-back 2 overhead
- Magpie 1
- Robin 1
- Song thrush 1
- Starling 27
- Woodpigeon 2
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