Birmingham and Warwick Junction Canal.

More Birmingham's canal shenanigans was the order of the day today, namely that being a walk a walk along the Birmingham and Warwick Junction Canal starting from Saltley Viaduct heading off towards Bordesley Junction and joining the Grand Union Canal and walking along until we reached The Ackers Adventure Park on Golden Hillock Road where it was then time for some scran. Today was one of the days where I didn't see many birds, but that sometimes how it goes, our feathered friends don't just appear because you want them too but that what makes it all the more special when you do spot them.

Birds spotted today were, Willow Warbler, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, House Sparrow, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Woodpigeon, Feral Pigeon, Mallard and Canada Goose. It was great to see a colony of at approximately thirty House Sparrow flitting along some trees along the canal side as it was seeing yet another family of Willow Warbler. There was also plenty of young Feral Pigeon to be heard on the walk today, mainly under bridges (which resemble their natural rock cliffs) and in the old abandoned factories of which there are many in Birmingham, our great Industrial past goes more into decline day by day. Strangely enough there wasn't to much litter about, even though any is too much, the most I really saw was what factories had dumped over walls down the embankment, chop there bloody hands off I would. People in Brum don't seem to appreciate all the great canals we have, but I'm glad most people stay away and leave it nature, birds and the other wildlife.