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I was up early for our first morning at the Woodcutter’s Lodge in Lynford Arboretum, so sat outside on the patio drinking tea and listening to the assorted bird song – Blackbird, Blue Tit, Chaffinch, Cuckoo, Goldfinch, Robin, Song Thrush, Swallow, Wood Pigeon and Wren.

The first birding group outing we were able to attend after our holiday in Lanzarote and the subsequent business getting back into a domestic routine was to the Wirral for a high tide of 9.8m at 12:12pm. Although 9.8 metres doesn’t seem that much, from bitter experience we know that that can mean nothing when…

The first birding group outing of the autumn 2025 year was a trip to Pennington Flash on a nice sunny day following some weeks of heavy rain. We didn’t see an awful lot but it was nice to get back into some birding after a long period off

Birding Group visit to Marbury Country Park followed by planning session for next term at the “Spinner and Bergamot” pub.

June was a fairly quiet birding month for us as from the 30th May we were in Spain for two weeks. We stayed mainly around the town on Nerja. We didn’t do any real birding, but we always seemed to be surrounded by a good number of them. In the town of Nejra there were…

The birding group could not take full advantage of the high tides on the Wirral that ran from the 1st to the 3rd of March. The nearest they could find was Tuesday the 4th so the tide was only 9.8m at 14:16.

The first birding group meeting of the term that we had been able to get to was a visit to Tatton Park – a walk that is longer than I remember but it was good exercise and we got a couple of good birds.

More illness picked up on the plane to Lanzarote meant that for the first hald of Ferbruaty I was still recovering. Eventually I felt well enough to venture out to Burton Mere Wetlands for the day.

A week-long winter break in Sicily was supposed to offer us some winter sun but the weather was so bad that it didn’t go to plan. Although it was warm enough – about 20 degrees most days – it rained heavily frequently. We managed to have a couple of nice birding experiences despite this.