Grand Tour of The Wirral : 22nd January 2016 Although there had been a high tide on the Dee Estuary, it wasn’t particularly high (8.8m) and it had been at 9.48am and we didn’t get to our first stop until around 10.30am. Be that as it may we wanted a day out and I suggested…
Burton Mere Wetlands 19th January 2016 The second birding group outing of the term, and the year, was to RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands where I hoped to add a fair number of species to my 2016 year list. I wasn’t to be disappointed and, although we did not see the Long-eared Owl that has been…
Pennington Flash 12th January 2016 The first birding group morning of the new year was to Pennington Flash. The weather held out and although it was overcast at the outset, the sun eventually came out before the rain started again around mid-day. We managed to stay dry, though and had a great start to our…
Great Northern Diver, Salford Quays. 9th January 2016 With Christmas and New Year dominated by bad colds and illness, it was a pleasure to open the year’s birding campaign with a woderful bird; the easiest Great Northern Diver I’m ever likely to get.
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…
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…
Conwy and North Wales 10th November 2015 The birding group day out this week was to Llanfairfechan, Conwy and Llanddulas. The weather had been dreadful for several days so we were pushing our luck a bit going to north Wales. Still we gave it a go and we had to endure extrtemely strong winds at…
Frodsham Marsh : 3rd November 2015 We were due to have a birding group visit to Frodsham Marsh this Tuesday but there had been a lot of bad fog for a couple of days so most people called off. David Poole seemed to think it would be bad on the motorway and foggy on the…
Hoylake, Parkgate & Burton Mere : 29th October 2015 After we got back from our Mallorca holiday, I was checking up on recent sightings closer to home and I ame across the monthly news at the Deeside Birding Website and it showed a high tide of 10m at around 1pm on the 29th so I…
Mallorca Summary : 11th – 24th October 2015 We set out for Mallorca in the (horribly) early hours of the morning of the 11th October. En route to the hotel we got our first bird of prey – a Red Kite. This was just the start of a good tally of birds of prey but…
