In a two hour walk around Sale Water Park (4 miles in 2 hours !!) I managed to encounter three professional dog walkers with between 6 and 8 dogs each and in total around 60-70 dogs during that 2 hour period; two of these jumped up on me and the second of these led to a slight altercation with the owner who explained the dogs behaviour with “it’s a dog!!” – as if this explained everything. She was genuinely amazed that anyone would be less that charmed by her fucking Jack Russell and its shitty paws.
Bird-wise, though it was pretty good with a total of twenty-nine species seen including year tick Jay, Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe and Ring-necked Parakeet.
A good walk with plenty of bird song and plenty of species spoiled by the epidemic of dogs.
Bird Sightings Sale Water Park 11th February 2019
| Mute Swan | 24 |
| Gadwall | 4 |
| Mallard | 12 |
| Northern Shoveler | 8 |
| Common Merganser | 1 |
| Little Grebe | 3 |
| Great Crested Grebe | 1 |
| Great Cormorant | 1 |
| Grey Heron | 6 |
| Common Buzzard | 1 |
| Common Moorhen | 2 |
| Common Coot | 10 |
| Black-headed Gull | 30 |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | 2 |
| Common Kestrel | 1 |
| Rose-ringed Parakeet | 6 |
| Eurasian Jay | 1 |
| Eurasian Jackdaw | 40 |
| Carrion Crow | 6 |
| Coal Tit | 6 |
| Great Tit | 8 |
| Eurasian Blue Tit | 6 |
| Long-tailed Tit | 12 |
| Eurasian Nuthatch | 3 |
| Eurasian Treecreeper | 1 |
| European Robin | 3 |
| Eurasian Blackbird | 4 |
| Redwing | 1 |
| Song Thrush | 2 |