Frodsham Marsh is not everybody’s cup of tea, but I like it. One of the things I have missed since leaving Chester is my relatively frequent trips down to this site to enjoy its wildlife and ragbag of dog-walkers, fly-tippers, rapscallions and birders.
It was therefore time – after an absence of about a year and a half – for another trip and after Mark Murphy had picked me up early doors we were on the fringes of number six tank before eight.
As you only notice that people age after prolonged periods of not seeing them, the marshes were essentially the same but subtlety different.
Number six tank is more vegetated that a couple of years ago and also sports a new bank in its north-western corner.
The birdlife has changed too; now two Schedule 1 breeding wading birds nest on the site as opposed to just one – I’ll leave those for you to work out…not too difficult though.
Five nests of each this spring, but sadly three nests were ruined by cretinous retards on quad bikes.
The Ruddy Ducks have gone too – at six-hundred nicker a pop apparently – so the wildfowl mainly comprised a handful of Pochard amongst the commoner species.
A few raptors were on the wing and included a small number of Buzzards and a pair of Kestrel over number three.
The Weaver Bend was a little more productive, but still relatively quiet. Passage wader migration was evident - although modest - comprising just a juvenile Dunlin, a single Common Sandpiper and a brace of Little Ringed Plovers.
And that was a wrap.
Until later.
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