Walk on Chorlton Ees and Chorlton Water Park 1st February 2013
I had read on a birders message board that someone had seen Fieldfare and Snipe on the rough ground next to the football pitch at Chorlton Ees so we set off for a morning walk over there. We walked the short route which took us by the old sewage works which is a way we do not normally go preferring the longer walk down the side of Chorlton Brook. We were very glad we did because the first thing we came across was a small flock of half a dozen Lesser Redpolls ! These had not been our target birds but you do read that they are around the Ees and Kenworthy Woods so I suppose it should have been less surprising than it was.