...still at least the first AVOCET is back....!
"IT RAINED AND IT RAINED,
IT WAS TOO WET TO PLAY"
So went the opening lines of the immortal Dr Seuss in his classic of 20th century literature, "The Cat In The Hat" (or at least it went something like that, my personal copy is not to hand at present).
But I thought, no, my good Doctor, I will not stay indoors and conform to your stereotypes of behaviour, nor be governed by the vagaries of meteorology.
Irrespective of whether a great big skinny black and white cat comes calling, his funky red and white stove pipe hat stuffed with attitude, I'm going out, I thought.
So I went down to Marshside for an hour of two this afternoon.
And it was very, very wet.
In case you're wondering, the bedraggled mess of a Kestrel at the top of this entry is quite probably the dashing male I photographed on Sunday against blue, blue skies.
How the mighty are fallen.
The Sandplant has pretty much gone now, apart from a lonesome shed....
I wandered down to the Sandgrounders Hide, where the first Avocet of the year was feeding a good distance off around Polly's Creek.
It turned up yesterday.
Luckily it flew off the creek and landed on the Sandplant Pools, where there were a few Pochard and Tufted Duck and the female and young male Scaup were dozing in the shallows.
The Avocet looked none too impressed with the weather and soon went to roost.
I saw my first three on the marsh on February 20th last year - so this one is a few days early.
A few hundred Lapwings, with smaller numbers of Golden Plover on Marshside Two, and dwindling numbers of wildfowl.
Time to go home and dry out.
Eyes to the skies everyone, eyes to the skies....
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