Birding Group Visit to Staley Brushes 7th May 2013 This was our first visit to Staley Brushes with the birding group; previously we have either been on holiday or it has been raining so the venue was changed at the last minute. We had no such problem today as it was a lovely sunny and…
Birding Group to Visit to Burton Mere Wetlands 15th April 2013 After we finished up at Inner Marsh Farm we decided to drop in on Burton Mere Wetland. As it happens a tree had fallen across the main road to the reception so we parked up in the filed at the top of the lane…
Birding Group to Visit to Inner Marsh Farm 15th April 2013 We had a lovely spring-like day for our group visit to Inner Marsh Farm and with the weather being quite sunny and warm we had everything we needed for a food days birding. Our treat of the day cam early on with very good…
Birding Group to Visit to Moore Nature Reserve 9th April 2013 The first birding group morning out of the term was to Moore Nature Reserve was a little under-attended due to holidays and other commitments so there were only six of us. Still we hoped we might hear or see some summer migrants and perhaps…
Birding Group Schedule Spring 2013 The provisional schedule for Spring is as follows : Tue 09-Apr-13 Moore Nature Reserve Mon 15-Apr-13 Inner Marsh Farm ? Burton Mere Wetlands Tue 23-Apr-13 Pennington Flash Tue 30-Apr-13 Marshside / Mere Sands Woods Tue 07-May-13 Stayley Brushes Tue 14-May-13 Macclesfield Forest Tue 21-May-13 Neumann’s / Haydn’s Flash Tue 28-May-13…
Birding Group Visit to Frodsham Marshes 19th March 2013 After missing a couple of weeks of the birding group, due to work being done on our house, we were glad to get back to our mornings out and it was a pleasant day and not too cold or windy. As usual Frodsham was very muddy…
Birding Group Visit to Brockholes Nature Reserve 26th February 2013 The last birding group outing for the month was to a new venue for us, Brockholes Nature Reserve which turned out to be a much larger site than we had imagined on the many occasions we had passed over it on the motorway. They have…
Birding Group Visit to Pennington Flash 19th February 2013 Our latest visit to Pennington Flash was unusually clement with hardly any wind and, although it was quite cold, there were plenty of birds around and it was a great day for birding. We started off in the car park and from here we saw Canada…
Birding Group Visit to Point of Ayr 12th February 2013 We planned this visit to coincide with a high tide (10 metres) and we thought that if we arrived at the viewing site by an hour bebore this we would be well in position to observe the tide come in. Unfortunately , even before we…
Birding Group Day Out to RSPB Marshside and Mere Sands Woods 5th February 2013 Last week we deferred our visit to Marshide due to bad weather though surely it couldn’t have been much worse than we had this week with phenomenally strong winds and later on driving rain. It was all a bit severe but…
