A beautiful walk in glorious weather today, perhaps a fraction too hot in the
afternoon if I'm honest but can't complain. Just shy of 10 miles, the walk
takes in the reedbed and saltmarsh parts of Leighton Moss, plus Jack Scout /
Jenny Brown's Point.
We dropped on with 10 crossbills which were found on the car park just as we
reached the building and later managed to catch up with a lesser yellowlegs on
the saltmarsh.
The crossbills were a mixed flock of at least one male, two or three females
and a few juveniles. Probably a couple of family parties I guess.
The Eric Morecombe pools. The lesser yellowlegs was sitting down and asleep with about 30 redshanks on the island left of centre and was generally a pretty poor view, but it did at least wake up and have a brief walk around before going back to sleep again.
Jack Scout.
Wild thyme.
Morecombe bay from Jenny Brown's point.
Glasswort, an edible saltmarsh plant.
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