A slight improvement to the recent, poor, weather saw the birding group reschedule the previously cancelled visit to RSPB Conwy. We also wanted to try for Hawfinches at Llanbedr-y-cennin and go on to Little Orme to look for Chough. As it happens, we didn’t see Hawfinches or Choughs but we did have a good day…
February was the wettest on record with flooding in lots of areas of the country. Although Manchester got it relatively well, it did put a damper on the birding for most of the month. Additionally, Anne still had a cast on her broken wrist and I still had a bad leg. This meant that we…
The first birding group outing of 2020 was to Pennington Flash. I wasn’t able to walk around the whole of the route due to my muscle injury but we still managed to get a decent number of birds but nothing particularly special. A nice day to get out and about though and Pennington was very…
The last birding group outing before Christmas was to Burton Mere Wetlands. Because of my leg injury I couldn’t get far around the reserve but I had a pleasant enough couple of hours around the reception hide getting the usual birds and a surprise Merlin. After that we repaired to the Wheatsheaf at Neston for…
The first birding group outing of November was to RSPB Leighton Moss. As, ever, at this time of year, we were hoping for sightings of Bearded Tits and some of our group got good views of them from the grit trays. Unfortunately it did not cross anyones mind to call the others of the group…
The last Tuesdayof the month for the birding group was a trip to the Wirral starting at Hoylake at 10 am for an 11:35am high tide of 9.89 metres. It wasn’t particularly high but there haven’t been that many recently, so we were looking forward to and – for once – it was a lovely,…
We had a birding group day lined up to be for RSPB Leighton Moss but reports on their web site and also by worl of mouth suggested that large parts of the reserve were under water so we decided to swop over to WWT Martin Mere where we had a reasonable day and good weather.
We holidayed in Spain for two weeks – one week in Seville and a second week in Cadiz. Although we were not on a birding holiday we did manage to fit in a six hour session with a guide that we found online. The company was Doñana Wings and our guide was Vicent Esteller, the…
The last birding group day of the month was left open for a decision nearer the time. The weather was predicted to be quite bad so a lot of people were put off but five of us took the risk and the risk was well rewarded with a good year tick and some great early…
On the 17th we went to Burton Mere Wetlands with the birding group followed by a quick stop at Parkgate. It turned out to be a nice day in the end and we managed to get a couple of Little Stints pretty much straight away – a nice year tick for us – but we…
