Reds at Formby

A visit to the National Trust reserve at Formby Point near Southport, Merseyside.

The Reserve

Red Squirrel

Blackbird

Canal at Gathurst

The canal is the Leeds-Liverpool canal.  The section is at Gathurst, Lancashire, near where the canal, the M5 motorway and the railway line all cross each other.

M-way, railway, canal

Canal traffic

M-way

Railway, canal

Locks (current and disused)

Lock gates

Lock keeper's cottage

M-way and lock

Weir into canal

Lock gate

M-way traffic

M-way, disused lock

Floating tearoom

Railway over canal

Road bridge (B5206 Gathurst Lane)

Canalside property

Gathurst Lane bridge

R.Douglas

Martin Mere

Images from a photoshoot in early March at this WWT reserve in Lancashire.  My first outing since I relocated to Lancashire.  This is now my local wildfowl reserve.

Whooper Swan

Pochard

Mallard

Shelduck

Black-tailed Godwit

Greylag Goose

Pheasant