Gadwall, Wigeon, Shoveler, Teal etc all still pretty tatty from Nels Hide today, although a reasonable flock of Golden Plover were worth checking (albeit fruitless checking), a Ruff or two were around the Blackwits, Snipe, and Redshanks etc.
Plenty of Pinkies about, and many Skylarks in the air, with a Rock Pipit over the Sandplant compound as Bazzo and I shambled about.
The leucisticy Red Crested Mess-chard was still on Marshside One - no shame.
20 odd Ruff on Crossens Outer, with Little Egrets further out, but a look at Mere Sands Wood was perhaps more entertaining when we hit a reasonably sized feeding flock of 50 odd birds - titmice, Goldcrest, Nuthatch, Brambling, Robin, Chaffinch, Siskin - on the northern side of the reserve.
Good to work through.
Jays squawking everywhere here, and mucho Teal on the water, with Bullfinch, Tree Sparrow and Redwing in the woods.
Ten out of ten to Mere Sands for still selling Wild Merseyside too!
Eyes to the skies everyone, eyes to the skies....
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On the way to work this morning at 6.15 a Fox ran out in front of me on Seeds Lane, Aintree and went into Kirkdale Cemetery through a tiny gap in the railings, I couldn't believe how it got through a gap so small.
I went to the Forest of Bowland yesterday and saw male and female Hen Harriers also Stonechats and Ravens near Dunsop Bridge. Earlier we saw lots of titmice and Goldcrests and a single Crossbill and a couple of Roe Deer rounded off a great day.