Day Out To Pennington Flash 21st September 2011
We fancied a couple of hours out as the weather wasn’t too bad so we decided to go to Pennington Flash. Before we even got on the motorway in Chorlton we had great views of a Buzzard considering whether to land on a roadside tree. In the end it didn’t but we had good views of it swooping around so we considered this a good start to our birding day.
At Pennington Flash we parked up and had a quick look at what was on the Flash from there and encountered an Egyptian Goose looking a bit shabby in moult. From the car park we took the usual route we take with the birding group starting out at Hide 2 (The Horrocks Hide – the coldest and windiest) from which we could see large numbers of Cormorants (at least 20) Lapwings (at least 100) Mute Swans, Great Crested Grebe, Moorhen, Coots, Tufted Ducks, Shovelers and Mallards and lots of Black-headed and Herring and Great Black-backed Gulls. There were around 200 Canada Geese as well. Continue reading