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  • 2015 Annual Summary

    Summary 2015 UK Life Ticks During 2015 Laughing Gull Lesser Whitethroat Long-eared Owl Montagu’s Harrier Red-footed Falcon Sabine’s Gull Wood Warbler UK Bird List 2015 : 165 Species   Species Count Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica Bearded Tit Panurus biarmicus Bewick’s Swan Cygnus columbianus Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros Black Swan Cygnus atratus Blackbird Turdus merula Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus Black-necked…

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  • Summary December 2015

    Summary December 2015 Species this month = 53 New Species added to 2015 Year List in December= 0 Running Total for the 2015 UK So Far = 165 New UK Life List Birds In December= 0

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  • WWT Martin Mere : 8th December 2015

    WWT Martin Mere : 8th December 2015 The last birding group day of the term was to WWT Martin Mere where we hoped – in vain – to see either the Greenland White-fronted Geese or the Green-winged Teal that had been reported. We didn’t see either of these species but we had a nice enough day before the rain came hammering down. The most interesting…

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  • Marbury Country Park and Budworth Mere : 1st December 2015

    Marbury Country Park and Budworth Mere : 1st December 2015 The first December birding group date was in danger of being cancelled due to the bad weather but we did find one place with a fair forecast and that was Marbury Country Park and Budworth Mere. The day turned out to be quite pleasant and we had a couple of nice sightings in Kingfisher and…

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  • Summary November 2015

    Summary November 2015 Species this month = 72 New Species added to 2015 Year List in November= 2 (Red-breasted Merganser and Common Scoter) Running Total for the 2015 UK So Far = 165 New UK Life List Birds In November= 0

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  • High Tide at Hoylake, West Kirby and New Brighton : 27th November 1015

    High Tide at Hoylake, West Kirby and New Brighton : 27th November 1015 Hoylake The last high tide we are likely to get to before Christmas was on the 27th November and it was 9.8m at 11.45. S with the last time we went to Hoylake, the tide came in really quick. We were in reasonable time but it has to be said there weren’t…

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  • Burton Mere Wetlands : 24th November 2015

    Burton Mere Wetlands : 24th November 2015 The birding Group Tuesday on the 24th was to Burton Mere Wetlands. The weather was poor and there weren’t many birds around, particularly at Inner Marsh Farm, but we did get a nice field of mixed Fieldfare, Redwing, Mistle Thrush and Starlings in the sloping field on your left as you walk back from Inner Marsh Farm. There…

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