It's Salford, Jim .......

...... But not as we know it.

Big open skies, not a building for seemingly miles, very few souls around. Willow warblers singing, as well as reed buntings and yellow hammers. The clear call of oystercatchers, lapwings also. A quick bird heading out across the edge of the water is a little ringed plover.

It is Salford's mosslands. Specifically Little Woolden and Cadishead mosses where the Lancashire Wildlife Trust is busy on restoring areas damaged by years of peat extraction. This blip - it looks like a face - is the base of a 10-12,000 year old bog oak covered by the developing moss and now exposed post extraction. It is actually either a pine or birch "bog oak" is a generic term.

I have added an extra to give a bit of context. The very distant hill is Winter Hill.