The snow may have largely gone from lowland St Helens, but it was still very much in evidence today on the Sandstone Trail at Peckforton, and a beautiful scene it was, with bright blue skies and the wind reduced to a gentle breeze, it was a much more pleasant day than most we have experienced recently.
This is a place I used to visit with my parents when I was a young lad, and I saw my first Pied Flycatchers and Great Spotted Woodpeckers here in 1974. Too early in the year for Pied Flies at the moment, but we saw a Great Spot in almost exactly the same tree as my first all those years ago. Also today, several Buzzards and a few Ravens, as well as a nice selection of woodland birds.
Birch Polypore
Friday 29 March 2013
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