Goyt Valley and Cat and Fiddle : 21 May 2015 Tuesday outing for the birding group was scheduled for the Goyt Valley but was changed to Pennington because of poor weather. I was keen that this particular venue should not disappear off the schedule if the following Tuesday’s weather was also poor so we decided…
Birding Group Visit to Pennington Flash 19th May 2015 We were scheduled to go to the Goyt Valley today but the weather forecast was so poor we decided to divert to Pennington Flash. There had been some rain overnight and the water level seemed a little high. The main attractions of the day were Common…
Birding Group Visit to Macclesfield Forest : 12th May 2015 I looked up last years trip to Macclesfield Forest and it wasn’t that brilliant. This was a bit similar though it wasn’t as windy as then. The weather was a mixture of dry spells and rainy spells. We started out at the car park where…
Mallorca Holiday April – May 2015 Summary Guide Books The two books I relied on were, firstly, Dave Gosney’s book ““Finding Birds in Mallorca” (which comes with a DVD of the sites in the book and some of the birds you can see at them and, secondly, “A Birding Tourist’s Guide to Majorca” by Maties…
Mallorca Holiday 6th May 2015 : Port de Pollenca and Boquer Valley
Mallorca Holiday 5th May 2015 : Formentor Beach After a pretty busy day yesterday we decided not to do too much birding today so we got the bus to Formentor Beach with the idea of just having a bit of a walk around the area of the beach in the pine trees just in case…
Mallorca Holiday 4th May 2015 : S’Albefura I was keen to fit in at least one more visit to S’Albufera before the end of our holiday and this time Anne came with me. She was keen to see the species that she had missed when I last spent the day at S’Albufera. We didn’t spend…
Mallorca Holiday 3rd May 2015 : Formentor and C’an Cuarassa
Mallorca Holiday 2nd May 2015 : Walk from Port De Pollenca to Cala Sant Vincenze We tried the other walk from north coast to west coast, from Port De Pollenca to Cala Sant Vincenze. This was a much more difficult walk than the Bouquer valley one. The path is really just the bed of a…
Mallorca Holiday 1st May 2015 : C’an Cuarassa, S’Albufereta
