May 20 2014
After our morning at Goyt Valley with the birding group our small select group of “lunchers” stopped off for some lunch at the Cat and Fiddle – it only had one beer on pump and one in bottle. The pump beer was a blonde beer called Brazilian ! The bottled beer was £3 a half and was rubbish. The food was poor. In short it was a mistake going there for lunch. It wasn’t a total waste of our time, however, as we managed to get a life tick there.
May 20 2014
We had been to Macclesfield Forest, which is quite close by, two weeks previously and not seen a great deal. This visit to the area was an entirely different kettle of fish. We parked up at the second car park near the southern end of Errwood Reservoir and crossed the road to the reservoir side. As we walked along the road we stopped at a bird box. one of the modern concrete kind, and we watched a pair of Pied Flycatchers coming and going. We were so taken with this display that it took us a while to notice an even more splendid birding sight at our very feet.