High Tide at Hoylake : 25th November 2014 The birding group visit for this week was to Hoylake for a high tide. The tide was due at 12.37 at 9.5 metres. We arrived there around 10.15am and were pleased to find that it was a lovely sunny morning with no wind which made a very…
Birding Group Visit to Sandbach Flashes : 18th November 2014 Our group visit to Sandbach Flashes was on a very nice autumnal morning with crisp clear low sunlight that made for glare-free viewing of the flashes. We started off with Pump House Flash; on hte fields at the back were considerable numbers of Wigeon and…
Birding Group Visit to Frodsham Marsh : 11th November 2014 Our visit to Frodsham Marsh could not have got off to a better start. As we collected at the parking spot and were starting to head off down the path to the River Weaver, I stopped to try to locate the source of some bird…
Birding Group Visit to Tatton Park : 4th November 2014 Our visit to Tatton Park was a very pleasant morning but it has to be said it was a bit quiet, especially in the woods, though we did see Greater Spotted Woodpecker and Nuthatch and Treecreeper. On the water there was a good spread of…
Birding Group Visit to Marbury Park : 28th October 2014 The birding group day out this week was supposed to be to RSPB Conwy and Llanfairfechan but a combination of a poor weather forecast, school mid-term and some flu meant that we were reduced to a group of five and we decided to just have…
Birding Group Visit to RSPB Leighton Moss : 14th October 2014 The first birding group day our after our return from Mallorca was to RSPB Leighton Moss where we were hoping – as usual – that we might get views of Bearded Tits at the grit trays. On the plus side, October is the best…
Birding in Mallorca, October 2014 We flew out to Mallorca on the 29th September arriving in Palma where we stayed for four days. We didn’t do any birding there but some friends drove us north from Palma over the mountains and down to Port de Pollenca and during this drive we had great sightings of…
Birding Group Visit to Burton Mere Wetlands : 23rd September 2014 The birding group started up towards the end of September and as luck would have it the first date was to Burton Mere Wetlands. We had been there a couple of times recently and we knew that others in the birding group had as…
Heswall Shore at High Tide : 11th September 2014 We had planned to do this walk from the car park at Banks Road, Heswall along the shore to Thurstston Country Park, at high tide. The high tide was due to be at 13.24hrs (BST) with a height of 9.9m. We were a bit early so…
Red-necked Phalarope : Inner Marsh Farm : 9th September 2014 Would you be tempted to drive for an hour in order to see a Cattle Egret, a Red-necked Phalarope, Pectoral and Curlew Sandpipers, Greenshank and Little Stint all on the one scrape ? Well we were tempted because all of these birds were reported to…
