Sunday 8th April
Well today was a quiet one on the patch and so in the spirit of this quietude I shall today, say very little. Spring seems finally to have begun to... well, 'spring'... coz today the Willow Warblers started to arrive and there's now also a sprinkling of Blackcaps. Along the Manchester Ship Canal (MSC) path to Halfway House this lunchtime there were 9 Chiffchaff singing, 2 Blackcap and 2 Willow Warbler (picked up a 3rd in Daisy Field on Upper Moss Side later and there'd been one singing on Lapwing Lane earlier Gary text me.
Plan was to walk the MSC path (which I did) and catch the rising tide and look for waders (which I didn't - see below). Did bump into a chap called Dave (I learned later), along the way and had a wee chat and gripe bout photographers and LEOs.
HWH was alas, having another 'Vintage Women's and the Anti-sausage' day, probably because idiot moi had not checked the tides and the bugger had already rushed in, covering the mudflat, the latter of which has changed markedly. There used to be TWO channels either side of the main sandbank... a north channel and a south channel. The north has now vanished... in-filled by sedimentation. Wonder when THAT happened??
SO, I didn't stay long and strolled instead through Upper Moss Side...
Where, disappointingly, I saw NO BEASTS (!) despite the encouraging poster on the screen hide...
...neither was there anything from the Tower Hide... apart from Norton Marsh...
...but the Marshy Pool did 'PERCHUNG!' a couple of zigging Snipe at me...oh and a Brown Hare too...which was nice...
Apart from that though and the 10 Lapwing, 8 Stock Dove, 2 Grey Partridge and zero Wheatear... that was it... apart from the moles...
Oh, hang on tho... got a Grey Wagtail near the factories... so now on about 73...74 ish?
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