Peckforton

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