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Birding Group : Burton Mere Wetlands : 3rd June 2021
The second birding group outing since resuming our trips after 2nd wave Covid was to Burton Mere Wetlands. The hides were open again but you still have to wear a mask and ones bins and scopes steam up straight away so not much fun and hard to bear for long. Anyway, we decided to head
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May 2021 Summary
UK Species Year List to May 2021: 78Total UK Species in May 2021: 72New “Year Ticks” in May 2021: 23New “Life Ticks” in May 2021: 0
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Birding Group – Goyt Valley and Danebank Quarry 27th May 2021
The birding group reformed for its first outing since the Covid outbreak with a visit to the Upper Goyt Valley and Danebank Quarry. We had actually done this visit on our own on the 6th of May and had had some success with sightings of Redstart and lots of Pied Flycatchers. We saw neither of
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Burton Mere Wetlands and Parkgate 25th May 2021
With both vaccinations completed and reserves starting to open their hides up again, we headed off to Burton Mere Wetlands. When we got there we discovered that the larger than usual numbers of cars was due to the presence of a Glossy Ibis on the reserve. Naturally we were interested so we hot-footed it down
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Sparrowhawk and other wildlife in our garden – May 2021
A glance out the back window of our house revealed a Sparrowhawk that had picked off one of our House Sparrows. There have also been some other unusual sightings including a Grey Wagtail that has been with us since February, Pheasant, Fox and Hedgehogs
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Goyt Valley, Cat and Fiddle, Danebower Quarry 6th May 2021
With a break in the recent (but much needed) rain, we headed out to the Goyt valley. We are planning to go here later in the month but with a lot of the hides still closed at reserves this seemed like a good option for a bit of exercise. When we go with the birding
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Hoylake, Leosowe and Parkgate 27th April 2021
We went up to Hoylake for a high tide of 9.9 metres at Noon but, even though we were there a good hour before, the tide was all the way in when we got there. There was still some sand but lots of dog walkers and no birds at all except the odd Cormorant or
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