Rye Harbour Nature Reserve : 26th June 2015 Having spent the morning ot RSPB Dungeness we spent some time walking around Rye Town and we found ourselves with a little time at the end of the day so we made a return visit to Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. This time we took another path to…
RSPB Dungeness : 26th June 2015 On the morning of the 26th we stopped at Dereck Jarman’s garden first before heading off for RSPB Dungeness which I had never been to before but was curious to see. We started by dropping into the visitor centre where we immediately got a good year tick when one…
The New Inn at Wincheslea 25th June 2015 After we left Rye Harbour we went to our hotel for the next couple of days, the New Inn at Winchelsea where we had a nice room overlooking the graveyard in which Spike Milligan is buried and the church of which has magnificent Arts and Crafts stained…
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve : 25th June 2015 After our visit to the Stodmarsh NNR, Sandwich and Deal we finished up at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. The whole reserve is quite big so we concentrated more on the part that borders the sea and takes in the Ternary Pool which was our principle interest with…
Stodmarsh NNR : 25th June 2015 On the morning of the 25th June we set out from Canterbury to Winchelsea with a planned stop off en route atthe Natural England Stodmarsh Nature Reserve. This was another well reviewed birding site and we were not to be disappointed with a good range of birds and some…
Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory : 24th June 2015 From Blean Woods we drove towards Winchesea stopping to do some tourist things at Whitstable (Oysters for lunch) and Herne Bay (Ice Cream on the prom), the latter of which did not seem to think that summer had started and was something of a ghost prom/pier. Of…
RSPB Blean Woods : 24th June 2015 After our party we had three days in Canterbury We did the usual tourist things but also went to RSPB Blean Woods. which had been recommended to us for good birding. We parked at 51.294456, 1.042020 and took one of the longer circular routes around the woods. Although…
Studley Green Red Kites : 20th June 2015 We started our holiday in the south of England with a visit to friend’s wedding anniversary party in Maidenhead. As we drove down the M40 near to Maidenhead the usual Buzzards gave way to the local specialty – Red Kites. Not only are they the dominant large…
Mallorca Holiday April – May 2015 Summary Guide Books The two books I relied on were, firstly, Dave Gosney’s book ““Finding Birds in Mallorca” (which comes with a DVD of the sites in the book and some of the birds you can see at them and, secondly, “A Birding Tourist’s Guide to Majorca” by Maties…
Mallorca Holiday 6th May 2015 : Port de Pollenca and Boquer Valley
