Sunset over Liverpool Bay

To Crosby Beach and its environs to see if I could see all the visible planets after sunset. I managed three - Venus, Jupiter and Mars. Saturn and Mercury were lost in the afterglow of the Sun, and before setting themselves by the Great Orme. Neptune and Uranus require a good telescope, so don’t count.

As I was watching the Sun sink below the horizon a chap wandered up and began reminiscing. The body of water in the foreground is the River Alt heading into the bay, he used to fish it for eels when he was young.

It was wonderful seeing skeins of pink footed geese flying in to roost on the exposed sandbanks, as well as groups of waders.