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…
September 2019 : Summary UK Species Year List to September : 181Total UK Species in September : 89New “Year Ticks” in September : 4New “Life Ticks” in September : 0
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…
The first birding group morning of the Autumn term was to Pennington Flash where, although it was generally quite quiet, we still managed to get thirty-four species and it turned out to be quite a sunny morning after a little rain to start with.
There haven’t been many high high-tides on the Wirral recently so with a poor weather forecast for home and a better one for the Wirral we headed up there. It was a Sunday and we had forgotten that it was the “Wader Festival” as well so there were plenty of people at tall the sites….
August 2019 : Summary UK Species Year List to August: 177 Total UK Species in August: 53 New “Year Ticks” in August: 1 New “Life Ticks” in August: 1
I had read that a Little Stint and a Green Sandpiper were both to be seen from the Eric Morecambe hide at RSPB Leighton Moss and, since the weather forecast was good, we decided to go up there and give it a shot. As it happened, we were wrong on both counts as the weather…
