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Right out of time

Posted by on October 30, 2007 8:37 PM | 

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Despite playing Tito and Tarantula as loud as possible I couldn't make the traffic speed up.
Every light was on red.
Every careful and learner driver on Merseyside was out on the road.
Which all conspired to mean the tiny window between the end of the day's work and dusk was getting narrower and narrower.....
I did manage to get out onto Plex Moss, but with just enough time to watch the light fade and the first rain of the evening start to roll down the windscreen of the Baby Black Death...perfect end to a perfect day.
A few Kestrels were still hunting in the gloom, and the usual Red Legged Partridges and Pheasants were in the fields, but I only managed one Fieldfare, up near the old Cheshire Lines.
About 700 Pink Feet grazing in fields between Plex and Carr Moss. Robins and Wrens still singing.
Welcome to winter.
Anyone out there actually seeing anything?
Eyes to the skies everyone, eyes to the skies....

Comments (5)

Stephen Dunstan wrote...

Regarding Barry's seawatch plans for Wednesday there were 10 Little Gulls off Blackpool today so there might be a few off Formby also.
Stephen.

Posted by: Stephen Dunstan  | October 30, 2007 9:21 PM

Bazzo wrote...

31.10.07: Seawatch, Formby Point, 11.50am - 2.45pm:
275 Common Scoter
2 Red Breasted Merganser
7 Great Crested Grebes
2 Guillemot

Posted by: Bazzo  | October 31, 2007 5:27 PM

gary wrote...

30:10:07 my first sea watch formby point
Dont laugh
10 scoter first for me
1 red throated diver also a first for me.
loads of blackdots on horizon but my scope not good enough.
well you have to blame something!
on the shoreline 4 bar tailed godwits,20 sanderlings and a few oystercatchers and 2 black backed gull.
Went on to taggs island and got another first for me a grey plover and i dont mean one off father christmas.
Plenty knot around here,black tailed godwits,curlew and a good gull roost.
20 ruff at marshside.

Posted by: gary  | October 31, 2007 6:15 PM

derek forshaw wrote...

Plenty of birds at and around Leighton Moss today, despite the gloomy weather.
It's amazing when you add up what you actually see, in my case 72 species, all common, no rarities - not even the Leighton Moss specialities.
The best were 185 Gadwall (I thought this was an impressive total), 8 Goldeneye, 14 Mergansers; 4 Goosander, Peregrine, Merlin, Sparrowhawk and Buzzard.

Posted by: derek forshaw  | October 31, 2007 7:20 PM

mike bird wrote...

hi john, 1 nov.marshside this afternoon. 1 sm tort, 1 comma , and 2 common darter. mike.

Posted by: mike bird  | November 1, 2007 7:13 PM

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