A couple of weeks ago I spoke about the heron I had seen standing silently in the shadows of a hedge by the old Cheshire Lines.
He [or she] was out in the open this morning.
While sheep and gulls warmed up in the field immediately before Farmer Ted's, the heron was very active. It was walking about in a brisk fashion, keeping its eyes on the grass very near to the roadside and not at all bothered as traffic sped past.
Quite made my morning.
Further down the road, as the double bend drops down on to the flatlands, there was debris in the field and a giant hole in the hedge. An articulated lorry had turned over on to its side in the field yesterday afternoon, having come off the road as it came round the second bend. As ever, the farm lads made quick work of righting the cab with a tractor. The trailer would have been harder work, I imagine.
Music on the moss: given that last paragraph it should have been the late Clarence White's version of Truck Stop Girl from his time with The Byrds, but it isn't. It's still the first week of Lent so rock n roll is banned. Instead, we have Sr Marie Keyrouz, a Paris-based nun from the Melchite Church of Lebanon singing some exquisite Lenten chants and hymns.

A nice study of a heron at Ince Blundell by Formby Times photographer Gavin Trafford

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