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Montacute, Ham Wall and Shapwick Heath Nature Reserves 1- 5 April 2025
We drove down to Bristol on the 3rd April and stayed there for a night before moving on to Montacute in Somerset. On our way down we saw lots of Buzzards, a Kestrel and we also got two Red Kites, seen whilst having a cup of tea at Gloucester Services South. On the trip we
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Birding Group Visit to Burton Mere Wetlands and Parkgate 1 Apr 2025
It surely could not be a coincidence that we went to the Wirral for a tide of 9.9 metres at 2:15pm on the first of April. It turned out to be something of an April’s Fool.
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Birding Group Brockholes 25 Mar 2025
The birding group visit to Brockholes started to look very unpromising as we approached the site and saw that, where the islands had been, was bare, bulldozed mud with few birds in sight. However, the automatic car park car recognition meant that we would have had to pay for a days parking anyway, so we decided to have a look rather than drive on elsewhere.…
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WWT Martin Mere 18 Mar 2025
After our morning at RSPB Marshide, we stopped off at WWT Martin Mere for a cup of tea and then had a look around. With limited time and the United Utilities hide still closed (though repair work has begun) we retricted ourselves to the area between the Ron Barker Hide and the Discovery hide. Even then, we still managed to get a couple of year…
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Birding Group Visit to RSPB Marshside 18 Mar 2025
The birding group visit to RSPB Marshside was blessed with some quite pleasant weather with sunshine and only a slight wind off the sea. Apart from the usual suspects we managed to get a few year ticks and some nice waders
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Birding Group at New Brighton and Hoylake 4th March 2025
The birding group could not take full advantage of the high tides on the Wirral that ran from the 1st to the 3rd of March. The nearest they could find was Tuesday the 4th so the tide was only 9.8m at 14:16.

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