Pennington Flash 1st November 2022
The first birding group trip of November was supposed to be to Sandbach FLashes but road closures meant that we could not get there and the usual alternative emerge – Pennington Flash. The water there was also very high and it wasn’t possible to walk the circuit as usual because of flooding on part of the path.
It wasn’t an especially great morning at Pennington. The water levels were very high and a lotof the grassy land was still very overgrown so Horrocks Hide was a little disappointing. SInce the flooding of the path meant that we could not get to a lot of the hides we had to turn back at the canal. I did actually walk a long way down the path but then it was impassable so it was a long walk back again. The leaves are coming off the trees so that made bird spotting easier – if only there were birds. Best birds of the day were a very few Redwing; but not even the first for the year since I saw some early in the year. The new visitor centre is still being built – not that anyone much is ever working there. A sign said that it was going to be closed Monday to Friday for 2 weeks in November due to the preparations for opening the new visitor centre – ridiculous!
Bird Sightings : Pennington Flash 1st November 2022
| Species | No |
|---|---|
| Black-headed Gull | 40 |
| Blackbird | 3 |
| Blue Tit | 4 |
| Bullfinch | 8 |
| Chaffinch | 8 |
| Coot | 160 |
| Cormorant | 10 |
| Gadwall | 12 |
| Goldfinch | 4 |
| Great Crested Grebe | 10 |
| Great Tit | 4 |
| Little Grebe | 2 |
| Long-tailed Tit | 3 |
| Magpie | 4 |
| Mallard | 20 |
| Moorhen | 2 |
| Mute Swan | 16 |
| Nuthatch | 3 |
| Redwing | 3 |
| Reed Bunting | 8 |
| Robin | 2 |
| Shoveler | 18 |
| Stock Dove | 2 |
| Teal | 20 |
| Tufted Duck | 100 |
| Willow Tit | 2 |
| Wren | 1 |