Birding Group Day Out to Pennington Flash 11th October 2011
We were supposed to go to Wigan Flashes this day but the weather was so poor that it was decided that we should go to Pennington Flash again just because it has enough hides to provide pretty continuous cover if needed and needed it was as we went from hide to hide whenever there was a bit of a lull in the rain. there was also a driving wind which is always at its most furious in the Horrocks hide where we started. The only good spot here was three Little Grebes although we all spent an age discussing whether a duck with a white front was actually a cross bred Mallard or something more interesting. In the end we decided that it was a cross breed because it started swimming with other Mallards when some flew in. Apart from that it was all Coots and Canada Geese and Lapwings and Cormorants