Birding Group Visit to Burton Mere Wetlands : 17th March 2015 In a change of schedule we swopped our planned venue for Burton Mere Wetlands. This gave those members of the group that had not already seen the Long-eared Owl to try for it. Although the bird had moved from its previous location we eventually…
Birding Group Visit to Marbury Park : 10th March 2015 The birding group visit this week was to Marbury Park. It was a pretty quiet affair really. Wes searched the reed bed for Bittern but to no avail. Budworth Mere had the usual Cormorants and Black-headed Gulls on posts and the water held mainly large…
Birding Group Visit to Sandbach Flashes : 3rd March 2014 A brisk morning at Sandbach Flashes saw a rather small birding group party – just six people including us three ! As usual, though, you can expect a nice range of birds. We didn’t do too well on waders but there was an attractive mixed…
Summary : February 2015 New Species added to 2015 Year List in February= 12 Running Total for the 2015 UK So Far = 94 New UK Life List Birds In February = 2 Our Garden February started the same way as January ended – with some hard overnight frosts and some cold clear and bright…
Birding Group Visit to Moore Nature Reserve : 24th February 2015 A fairly uneventful morning of birding at Moore. We looked, unsuccessfully, for Lesser Spotted Woodpecker and Tawny Owl but at least the rain held off and, although it was a bit windy, we did get a reasonable variety of birds. Our count for the…
Laughing Gull at New Brighton : 22nd February 2015 After getting lucky with the Long-eared Owl at Burton Mere Wetlands, we decided to head off to New Brighton for the last high tide day of February (10.1 metres at 1.27pm). We got there around 1pm so we had half an hour before high tide. As…
Long-eared Owl at Burton Mere Wetlands : 22nd February 2014 While we were on holiday in Lanzarote I had been monitoring some of the sightings in and around Manchester and two in particular jumped out at me. The first was a roosting Long-eared Owl that had been at Burton Mere Wetlands and the second was…
Lanzarote and Fuerteventura Holiday Summary I can’t really say that we were particularly organised for birding and we were certainly not organised enough but with the help of Carmen from “LanzaroteActiveClub” and a brief read of “Gosney” we were not completely without resources. We did manage to see most of our target birds and mixed…
Lanzarote : 15th February 2015 We didn’t really do any birding this day but we did see a Southern Grey Shrike or two at Papagayo beach as well ad the usual Yellow-legged Gulls and Rock Doves.
Fuerteventura : 14th February 2015 We got 9am Armas ferry from Playa Blanca to Correlejo ( €95 Inc 10% discount for using the car hire firm). From Correlejo we drove down to the Antigua plain, specifically with the hope of seeing Black-bellied Sandgrouse at a location we got from Dave Gosney’s book “Finding Birds in…
