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  • Summary : January 2015

    Summary : January 2015 New Species added to 2015 Year List in January= 82 Running Total for the 2015 UK So Far = 82 New UK Life List Birds In January = 0 Our Garden The weather is very mixed. There have been some very light snow falls and some very cold days but the bird bath has seldom been frozen more than three mornings…

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  • Tatton Park : 27th January 2015

    Tatton Park : 27th January 2015 The last birding group morning of January was to Tatton Park. We started off, as usual, at the Dog Wood entrance. There are dramatic changes there with what looks to be around one third of the trees in Dog Wood having been cut down. There was plenty of plant there but no one to ask what the works were…

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  • New Brighton Marine Lake 24th January 2015

    New Brighton Marine Lake 24th January 2015 After we left Riverbank Road we went on to New Brighton to find the Purple Sandpipers again as Anne had missed them. A note to myself, NEVER go there on a weekend; parking is impossible ! Would we have a bit more luck that we had had on the birding group visit a few days prior ? Well…

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  • High Tide at Riverbank Road, Heswall 24th January 2015

    High Tide at Riverbank Road, Heswall 24th January 2015 This was a ranger-led high-tide watch. The tide was 9.9 metres at 1.46pm and the meeting time was 11.30am. We got there in plenty of time after being at Shotwick Lane first. It was a sedentary affair with a row of people lined up on the edge of the car park that fronts the marsh. It…

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  • Shotwick Boating Lake 24th January 2014

    Shotwick Boating Lake 24th January 2014 I had been reading on the Dee Estuary Birding web site that there were Black-necked Grebes wintering on Shotwick boating lake. I was quite keen to see these but I was actually more taken with the report for the 17th January when someone had seen four species of Swan in the nearby fields. I was particularly keen to the…

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  • RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands 20th January 2015

    RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands 20th January 2015 We finished up our birding group day on the Wirral with a visit to Burton Mere where we were in for a bit of a surprise as almost every body of water was frozen and there were very few birds there at all and what was there was to be seen in the woods. Accordingly the highlights were…

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  • New Brighton Marine Lake 20th January 2015

    New Brighton Marine Lake 20th January 2015 Our birding group day out on the Wirral had started at Hoylake for the high tide. After we had seen what we could see there we moved on to New Brighton. I had seen Purple Sandpipers there on the 23rd December and got some nice video which the birding group had seen. Quite a few of the group…

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