A Fifteen Grey Heron Walk.
A male Common blackbird on the path at The Riverside on River Lane, Saltney, with a Dunnock skulking in the grass.
A male Greenfinch at The Riverside on River Lane, Saltney.
One of the many Grey herons on the banks of the River Dee this morning.
It pays to be patent when you go fishing.
A Little egret by the river.
A Common buzzard surveying its territory.
Heading along the Wales Coast Path towards the Higher Ferry Footbridge on the return journey.
Bridge maintenance still ongoing.
A Common whitethroat singing from a bush next to the railway.
I could still hear it singing from my back garden when I arrived home.
Distance: 7.1 miles Climb: 100'.
Time: 3 hours 46 minutes. On the move walking avwerage: 2.5 m.p.h. Overall walk aveage: 1.9 m.p.h.
Once again, I decided on an early start to avoid the anticipated unpleasant heat around mid-day. Having experienced wet feet yesterday, the walk today would not include any grassy paths.
I set off just before six when the temperature was a very pleasant 16 Celsius. It had risen to 21 Celsius by the time that I got home just before ten, but with the occasional welcome breeze, I never felt it was uncomfortable to walk.
Only one complaint about a cyclist who shouted "get out of the f...... way" as he went passed me. I was stationary on the edge of the path, looking at a bird on the hedge, and he took exception to having to slow down because another cyclist was approaching in the opposite direction. Another cyclist approached just at the wrong time, as I was about to take a photo of a Mistle thrush, he rang his bell ant the Mistle thrush flew off! "Thanks for that" I thought, but I soon came down to earth, after all the cyclist was only doing what I ould appreciate all cyclists doing. Had the first one rung a bell, perhaps I could have moved out of his way.
This was a day when the Grey herons came out in force, I saw fifteen in all, at one point it looked like there was a fishing match going on with Grey herons every hundred yards or so on the river bank close to the water north west of the Saltney Ferry Footbridge.
O one occasion, I saw Great cormorant with a fish in its beak, walk out of the water to at it, when one Grey heron approached presumeably to steal the fish. It didn't succeed. There seemed to be a good number of juvenile Grey herons amongst the fifteen that I saw.
Birds seen or heard today included: Common blackbird, Woodpigeon, Black billed magpie, Pied wagtail, Lesser black back gull, Herring gull, Black headed gull, Dunnock, Winter wren, Chiffchaff, Common whitethroat, European robin, Barn swallow, House martin, Chiffchaff, Carrion crow, Rook, Oystercatcer, Moorhen, Goldfinch, Common chaffinch, Common swift, Lapwing, Common buzzard, Skylark, Little egret, Great cormorant, Common redshank and Grey heron.
The only butterflies seen today were Red admiral, Meadow brown and a white butterfly (probably a Small white).
Even though I was on the Wales Coast Path before seven, plenty of cyclists and jogers were early birds too.
A very pleasant walk if the hot spell continues, it lookas though I will be doing a few more early morning walks.
Ed's Welsh Wanders.
Little Orme Little loop and Llandudno Town.
Distance: 6 miles + 3 with Evelyn.
Little Orme Trig point View.
The Old Watch Tower/gun site.
Angel Bay with only 2 seals in the water today.
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