Foulshaw Moss...

With the gout receding to nothing more than a dull ache, I was able to get out for a walk yesterday. Just a couple of miles - down to the river and back - but it was good to be out in the spring sunshine, and to hear the skylarks singing. I saw a heron, some little egrets and a cormorant. What’s the difference between a cormorant and a shag? Well, no one ever says “Fancy a cormorant?”.

Licenced yesterday: a bird-watcher at Foulshaw Moss, in South Lakeland...