Chester Road Canal.

I thought it was about time I had a walk down one of Birmingham's many canals, so I decided to have a walk along Chester Road Canal starting from The Tyburn House public house along to the farmers fields past the Hare and Hounds public house and back again which was approximately five miles.

Highlights of the day were seeing my first House Martin of the year darting along the waters surface looking for insects, a pair of Blackcap, a Song Thrush in full song and seeing House Sparrow and Starling numbers in the hundreds, the House Sparrow were along the route on the houses, in the gardens, the reeds and the farmers fields whilst the Starling numbers were more concentrated in the farmers fields and the houses near the fields. Another highlight was spotting the 'Insect Hotel' shown in the last picture, which is hopefully home to many bugs.

Birds seen were House Martin, Swallow, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Blackcap, House Sparrrow, Dunnock, Wren, Robin, Song Thrush, Blackbird, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Woodpigeon, Feral Pigeon, Mallard, Moorhen and Canada Goose.

The only downer on the morning apart from the litter was seeing a dead Canada Goose which looked like it may have been on the nest being as it was on the opposite side of the canal in an accessible part where it could have easily flown into the canal if attacked but judging by it's location and the state of it, it looked like it had fell prey to a fox attack.