Our last birding group visit of the month was to Burton Mere Wetlands on a lovely sunny day with fantastic visibility all the way over to the Welsh hills. There were plenty of ducks but not many species. We did get a year first bird, though.
Our visit to Pennington Flash saw us enjoy another fine day but the water levels were incredibly low and some of the ponds had dried out entirely. There was a dry area of about six feet from the ends of the main lake. This meant that the bodies of water weren’t the main interest for…
The first birding group outing of May was to Macclesfield Forest on a sunny, but initially cool, day. Although we didn’t see a huge number of birds, we did get a couple of good year ticks and the woods by the Teggnose Reservoir car park were ringing with bird song.
On the penultimate day of April we had intended to go to Parkgate for a high-ish tide of 9.9m at 1:10pm but with some time to spare beforehand we suggested that we go to Leowowe Lighthouse beforehand as there had been some Whinchat and Ring Ousel seen there in recent days. Since noone of the…
It surely could not be a coincidence that we went to the Wirral for a tide of 9.9 metres at 2:15pm on the first of April. It turned out to be something of an April’s Fool.
The birding group visit to Brockholes started to look very unpromising as we approached the site and saw that, where the islands had been, was bare, bulldozed mud with few birds in sight. However, the automatic car park car recognition meant that we would have had to pay for a days parking anyway, so we decided to have a look rather than drive on elsewhere. In the end we were glad we did because we ended up having a good day getting some nice year ticks on a day where it seemed that Spring might not be that far away.
The birding group visit to RSPB Marshside was blessed with some quite pleasant weather with sunshine and only a slight wind off the sea. Apart from the usual suspects we managed to get a few year ticks and some nice waders
The last day of the birding group term was a visit to Marbury Country Park followed by a lunch at the Spinner and Begamot where we planned the first term of next year.
The birding group had a fine, if cold, morning visit to RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands. There wasn’t too much going on but there were small groups of mixed finches around so we got a few Siskins and other small birds.
On the 26th of November the birding group had a day out to WWT Martin Mere. It turned out to be a sunny day with only one, very brief, spattering of rain. We managed to get 39 species of birds at 2 year-tick winter thrushes.
