Birding Group Visit to Pensarn : 4th February 2014 After the birding group visit to RSPB Conwy we were going to go to Llandullas but I suggested that Pensarn might be a better place to go. This was perhaps not the best choice for those without scopes because we ended up mainly sea watching even…
Birding Group Visit to RSPB Conwy : 4th February 2014 The birding group date this week was for a full-ish day at RSPB Conwy. We met up in the cafe at 10.30am and after a quick cup of tea we were off. It was a fairly pleasant day with some bright sunny periods. Initial…
Birding Group Visit : Pennington Flash : 28th January 2014 The first birding group date of the year that I could turn out for was the visit to Pennington Flash. It had been scheduled to be Redesmere but, as ever with Redesmere, it was changed to Pennington due to the wet weather. However, a new…
Provisional Bird Group Venues for Winter Term
Birding Group Visit to Dunham Massey 10th December 2013 The last birding group day out before Christmas was to Dunham Massey. It started out a nice morning but gradually got duller. As we left the car park we saw a small flock of Redwing fly over the park but this was not an indication of…
Visit to Hoylake and Parkgate for High Tide : 5th December 2013 We had high hopes for a visit to Hoylake and Parkgate for a 9.9 metre high tide (12.24pm at Liverpool) that wasn’t really a birding group date but several of the group had planned to go there. Unfortunately the combination of low pressure,…
Birding Group Visit to Burton Mere Wetlands / Inner Marsh Farm: 2nd December 2013 For various reasons the birding group visit this week was moved to Monday rather than Tuesday and was at Burton Mere Wetlands on a cloudy and overcast – but dry – day. The rumoured Golden Plover and Little Stint refused to…
Birding Group Visit to Frodsham Marsh : 26th November 2013 We were driving up the lane leading to the parking place at Frodsham and as we drove along a Kestrel flew parallel to the car for a while giving us really close views. As it peeled off and flew into the distance we started to…
Birding Group Visit to Sandbach Flashes 12th November 2013 We had a lovely morning for the birding group visit to Sandbach Flashes. As usual we had a quick look at Pump House Flash which was pretty full of water. There were large numbers of Great Black-backed Gulls and Black-headed Gulls as well as Coots. There…
Birding Group Visit to Parkgate and Hoylake 5th November 2013 We have been to Parkgate a few times now, usually for the high tides, and this was our reason again today. Often we go for the Spring high tides but this was rather different. It was a 9.8 metre tide, which we have had before…
