Birding Group Visit to Macclesfield Forest 5 May 2026
We had a nice morning out at Macclesfield Forest and managed to get five year ticks including a great pair of Pied Flycatchers.
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Birding Group Visit to Burton Mere Wetlands 14 Apr 2026
Our birding group visit to Burton Mere Wetlands on 14th April gave us a couple of good Spring birds – the first Swallows of the year and the first Willow Warbler of the year. A nice feature of the scrape was the presence of half a dozen Mediterranean Gulls in full breeding plumage.
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Birding Group Visit to Parkgate, Riverbank Road and Denhall Quay – 17 February 2026
Our scheduled birding group visit to Parkgate on the 17th February for a “high” tide of 9.1 metres at 10:58 am wasn’t very well attended with Anne and I and Richard the only people going there.
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Lapland Bunting at Leosowe 13 Nov 2025
The highlight of the month, and perhaps the year, was a visit to Leosowe Lighthouse on the 13th November 2025. We got a life tick and two year ticks on a dry, windless sunny day at the Leosowe horse paddocks and on the promenade there.
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WWT Slimbridge 30-31 October 2025
We had to go down to Bristol for the funeral of a friend so, to buck ourselves up a bit and to break up the return journey we stopped of at Slimbridge for an overnight stay that allowed us to get an afternoon visit one day and a morning visit the next day.
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Birding Group Visit to RSPB Leighton Moss 9-10 Oct 2025
The first birding group outing of October was to RSPB Leighton Moss and, in a break from tradition, it was on a Thursday. This was chosen over the usual Tuesday was because the high tide would be at 1:15pm rather than 11:15am which would fit it better with us because we normally want to spend the fist couple of hours at the main reserve looking for Bearded Tits before going down to the sea hides.
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North Wales Trip 24th – 26th July 2025
We decided to have a couple of days away in North Wales just for a change of scenery. It obviously wasn’t going to be the best time of year for birding, but we thought we would give it a shot anyway. We hadn’t managed to get to South Stack on Anglesey yet this year, so…
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Birding Group Visit to Burton Mere Wetlands 24 June 2025
We had been on holiday in Spain for a couple of weeks at the start of June, so it was the 24th June before we rejoined the birding group when we had a morning out to Burton Mere Wetlands. I say the birding group but there were only four of us! Be that as it…
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High Tide at Holake, New Brighton and Parkgate 16th December 2024
The last reasonable high tide of the year was on 16th and 17th December. We decided to go on Monday 16th to see if we could get any birds we had not got already this year and weren’t disappointed.
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WWT Martin Mere 9 Oct 2024
After a lapse in membership, we renewed our subscription to the WWT in order to go to WWT Martin Mere. Would our investment pay off? It did, indeed, with some excellent sightings and a couple of year ticks