Visit To Gauntlet Bird of Prey Centre We went for an afternoon out to the Gauntlet Bird of Prey Centre which is next to Fryer’s Rose Nursery and Garden Centre on Manchester Road in Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 0SX. The admission is very cheap compared to other similar places we have been to. They are open…
Day Out to Leighton Moss RSPB : 6th July 2011 It had been a while since we were last at Leighton Moss and we hoped that although it was late on in the season that we stood a chance of seeing Bearded Tits or at least a good range of Warblers. We were to be…
“Corvus : A Life with Birds ” by Esther Woolfson : 4th July 2011 This book has been sitting on the bookshelf for a while. I actually bought it as a gift for Anne but I borrowed it to read on our holiday to Montacute and then the New Forest. The title gives the story…
Weather The weather this month has continued to be a bit up and down with the odd fall of hail stones and some heavy downpours but most days fairly dry if – almost always – a bit windy. Towards the middle of the month we got some more heavy rain and this continued intermittently until…
Visit to Slimbridge WWT : 30th June 2011 From the New Forest we drove to Bristol on the 29th where we stayed overnight. This enabled us to break our return journey up into stages and in Bristol we caught up with an old friend of ours. Next morning we just had a short drive to…
New Forest Holiday Day 4 : Ashley Walk : 29th June 2011 It was our last day in the New Forest so we decided to go for one last long walk over the heath. We settled on Ashley Walk / Pitts Wood. It was a hot day again and we did not really want to…
New Forest Holiday Day 3 : Keyhaven: 28th June 2011 On the afternoon of the third day of our New Forest Holiday we decided to head for the coast and go to Keyhaven near Lymington. We drove to the parking place at the end of Hurst Beach and then we walked the length of the…
New Forest Holiday Day 3 : Beaulieu Road / Shatterford Bottom : 28th June 2011 On the third day of our New Forest break we decided to return to Beaulieu Road / Shatterford Bottom that we had reccied on our first day. Again it was a very hot day and instead of walking into Denny…
New Forest Holiday Day 2 : Bucklers Hard and the Beaulieu River : 27th June 2011 For a change of location we decided to try a boat trip so we headed off for the “historic village” of Bucklers Hard, once a naval shipbuilding dockyard where many of Nelson’s ships, including some that fought at the…
New Forest Holiday Day 2 : Acres Down and Bolderwood : 27th June 2011 Our guidebook “Where To Watch Birds in Britain” by Simon Harrap and Nigel Redman suggested that this was “probably the best site in the New Forest for Watching raptors” so we were looking forward to some exciting birding. We followed the…
