March 2017 Summary
March 2017 Summary UK Species Year List to March: 104 Total UK Species in March: 41 New “Year Ticks” in March: 3 New “Life Ticks” in March: 0 Year ticks inc Skylark, Meadow Pipit and Hen Harrier at Neston Old Quay on 28 March 2017
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Birding Group Visit to the Wirral for a low high tide 28th March 2017
The so-called high tide was supposed to be 9.7metres at 12:12pm which wasn’t particularly high but we thought it might be OK for Riverbank Road. We were a bit early so we dropped in to Burton Mere Wetlands where we just looked from and around the reception hide. The highpoint must surely have been the…
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Holiday to San Francisco and Hawaii, March 2017
We went for a fantastic three-week holiday taking in a three-night stop at San Francisco either side of a week on Maui and a week on Big Island. I didn’t record every sighting as it wasn’t really a birding trip, as such, and I wanted to record lots of other things too. I did, however…
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February 2017 Summary
February 2017 Summary UK Species Year List to February : 100 Total UK Species in February : 73 New “Year Ticks” in February : 15 New “Life Ticks” in February : 0
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Hoylake, Parkgate, Neston and Burton : 28th February 2017
With a high tide of 9.8 metres at 12.15pm we thought it was a good day for the birding group to go to Hoylake. There was a bit of a surprise in store, though, when we woke up to heavy snow falling. We waited a bit though, to see if it would ease off, and…
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Connah’s Quay and Burton Mere Wetlands 25th February 2017
After a long spell out of action with flu, I was keen to get out and about again. We opted for the Dee estuary which never disappoints. Our main target for the day was Twite at Connah’s Quay. We are going to Hawaii for three weeks shortly and this could have been our last chace…
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Chorlton Water Park and Kenworthy Woods : 3 February 2017
A break in the wet weather gave us a chance to get out to Chorlton Water Park and Kenworthy Woods. It has been a long time since we hace gone over there, preferring to go further afield for less common birds. It was well overdue for us to visit the water park so we drove…
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Summary January 2017
Total UK Species in January : 85 New “Year Ticks” in January : 85 New “Life Ticks” in January : 0
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Pennington Flash : 31 January 2017
The fist birding group date we could make in January was to Pennington Flash on the last day of the month. It started off a little wet but soon dried up. It wasn’t even all that windy ! The main attractions were the possibility of seeing the Long-tailed Duck we had seen last year…
