Finally got to the river today amid the snow. Hardly saw a thing but it was SO beautiful out. Not much to say really other than the light was just something else. The snow made the backdrop to everything a weird blue-tinged monotone - like everything was shot in black and white but through a cold blue or UV filter or something. Really enhanced the colours of the few birds and animals that were out and about. The gulls and squirrels looked smokey blue grey today; the Bullfinches and Jays en route to the river blushed shades of pink; the solitary Woodcock and Snipe at the east end of the reseve looked like they'd been inlaid with gold and ebony and the small flocks of Redwings that were skitting between berry bushes were undescribabley gorgeous and just made me feel...well, christmasy to be honest! Even the two Buzzards I came across (one drinking from a stream, the other labouring under a full crop by the ship canal) seemed to have every rich shade of warm fire-side brown you can imagine. Bloody marvellous I tell thee... and to cap it all, I had the world to myself. Happy days :)
Parked up here and set off... getting male Green Woodpecker on the way to...
... the path along the Manchester Ship Canal...
...where I came across my first tracks - Pheasant...
...Rabbit...
... Wood Mouse? ...
... Fox ...
... stopped to check a crest ... couldn't relocate it...
... quickly rushed past the crack in the Universe...
... and was soon at Halfway House...
... headed back to Shipton's via the big oak...
... to take the obligatory snow silhouette shot...
... before heading back to the car and hitting the east side...
Track to the Eastern Reedbed
The Eastern Reedbed
Millbrook Pool (aka The Lagoon)
4 Lapwing, 1 Common Snipe and 1 Buzzard shared this little trickle of running water
En Route to the east River
Nothing about though...
By the Angler's Pool
The Angler's Pool
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