Birding Group Visit to Sandbach Flashes : 18th November 2014
Our group visit to Sandbach Flashes was on a very nice autumnal morning with crisp clear low sunlight that made for glare-free viewing of the flashes. We started off with Pump House Flash; on hte fields at the back were considerable numbers of Wigeon and Canada Geese. On the water the gulls were mainly Herring Gulls but there was a single Great Black-backed Gull and a few Black-headed Gulls.
Ducks included Tufted, Mallard, and Teal. There were lots of Coots and Moorhens and Starlings feeding on the grassland amongst the Gulls and Wigeon. In the trees there were Magpies and Carrion Crows and also the usual Cormorant roost. Smaller birds in the bushes included Great tit, Tree Sparrow, Robins and a Wren.