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Visit to WWT Martin Mere 14th March 2013
Visit to WWT Martin Mere 14th March 2013. On 14th March we paid a visit to WWT Martin Mere, principally to pick up my new Swarovski ATX scope and APO adapter for my Nikon D300 that I had ordered two months ago ! We gave the scope a test run on a fairly quick walk
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High Tide at Hoylake 2nd March 2013
High Tide at Hoylake 2nd March 2013 On the 2nd March we went up to Hoylake for the high tide as we had done earlier in the year in the middle of January. The tide was supposed to be quite high but it didn’t come in anywhere as near to the promenade as it had
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Summary February 2013
Summary February 2013 Garden February continued wet and sometimes very windy and still a bit cold. Many of our garden birds seem to be absent though I did see a Wren on several occasions. By the 13th there was more snow and the cold brought our two Mistle Thrushes back into the garden. In fact
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Birding Group Visit to Brockholes Nature Reserve 26th February 2013
Birding Group Visit to Brockholes Nature Reserve 26th February 2013 The last birding group outing for the month was to a new venue for us, Brockholes Nature Reserve which turned out to be a much larger site than we had imagined on the many occasions we had passed over it on the motorway. They have
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Birding Group Visit to Pennington Flash 19th February 2013
Birding Group Visit to Pennington Flash 19th February 2013 Our latest visit to Pennington Flash was unusually clement with hardly any wind and, although it was quite cold, there were plenty of birds around and it was a great day for birding. We started off in the car park and from here we saw Canada
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Day Out To Etherow Country Park 17th February 2013
Day Out To Etherow Country Park 17th February 2013 We started out by walking up the path between the two lakes where there were the usual Canada Geese and Mallards were present with a smattering of domestic geese. On the right there were lots of Black-headed Gulls on the sailing pond. Unusually this far down
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Birding Group Visit to Point of Ayr 12th February 2013
Birding Group Visit to Point of Ayr 12th February 2013 We planned this visit to coincide with a high tide (10 metres) and we thought that if we arrived at the viewing site by an hour bebore this we would be well in position to observe the tide come in. Unfortunately , even before we
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