A Blue tit at The Riverside, River Lane, Saltney.
A Common blackbird The Riverside, River Lane, Saltney.
A Song thrush sings.
A song thrush does its best to compete with the noise of a jet engine flying nearby.
Two male Common pheasants in a face off - oblivious to the noise of the jet overhead.
Goosander on the River Dee.
Mike enjoying the view towards Moel Famau from the Saltney Ferry Footbridge.
The Beluga ST 5 coming into land - taken from Flint Road, Saltney Ferry.
Distance: 9.8 miles Climb: 145'.Time: 4 hours 28 minutes. On the move walking average: 2.8 m.p.h. Overall walk average: 2.2 m.p.h.
Temperature: 12.1 - 17.2 Celsius. Max wind speed: 4.1 m.p.h.
Group: Martyn and Mike ( for the second part of the walk).
This really was a gloriously warm and sunny day for walk - perfect after about 10-30. The Song thrushes thought so as well as I saw and heard several, particularly along the Wales Coast Path.
Birds seen and heard today included: House sparrow, Woodpigeon, Collared dove, Moorhen, Magpie, Greenfinch, Blue tit, Great tit, Black billed magpie, European robin, Carrion crow, Raven, Jackdaw, Oystercatcher, Great cormorant, Common pheasant, Black headed gull, Dunnock, Common blackbird, Goldfinch, Feral pigeon, Little egret, Teal, Common buzzard, Goosander and Song thrush.
In all I saw 9 Goosander, 5 females and 4 males - the first time I have seen more females than males.
I had arranged to meet Mike at The Cop on Sealand Road, so that I could give him some dehumidifiers that I had spare after ordering more than I needed online.
Mike decided to accompany me on the rest of my walk as far as the Saltney Ferry Footbridge. Here we parted company, I headed home via Mold Junction / Saltney Ferry and Mike crossed the footbridge, heading for home, following the same route back to The Cop as I had earlier.
Along the Riverside Promenae Trail by the Roodee Racecourse, we met Carol and Steve and spent about twenty minutes chatting to them before carrying on our way.
I was less than 100 m from home when I ended talking to an out of walk bricky (another Evertonian) and it was over thirty minutes later that I managed to escape!
Overall a very enjoyable walk, especially good being able to talk to someone you know face to face in the great outdoors.
Thankfully i still arrived home in plenty of time to be able to clean my boots outside in the warm sunshine.
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