The birding group had a morning at Moore Nature Reserve followed by a lunchtime planning session for the next “term”. Although it was a relatively short morning we did manage to get some good birds with “year tick” Goldcrests and plenty of Treecreepers and Nuthatches. No Lesser SPotted Woodpeckers, though, just GSW and a heard…
Bird Sightings Leosowe Lighthouse 15th April 2019 We had a solo day out on the Wirral on the 15th, starting out looking for migrants at Leosowe Lighthouse. Unfortunately the wind was so strong that all the dust was blowing up from the car park and made hard work of my contact lenses. We tried to…
We only had four of us for the birding group visit to RSPB Leighton Moss on 9th April 2019 but we had a most fantastic day with good weather and lots of birds including a number of year ticks and a life tick as well.
Anne suggested that we did something the next day, which was a Sunday morning, so I looked at Bird Guides and saw that there had been a Velvet Scoter on High Rid reservoir near Bolton, only about a 20 minute drive away. A quick Google of Pete Hines Youtube channel brought up a video of…
I had been looking forward to the birding group visit to the Goyt Valley for a while now. It is always good for at least some good year ticks and is sometimes exceptionally good. This time it was exceptionally good though we did not get all out target species.
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…
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…
With Christmas and New Year over we decided to take advantage of some dry weather to get out to North Wales to see if we could get our year list off to a good start. Last year we both had colds so we got off to a slow start. Not this year!
Wales Day Out : Species Nos 197 – 200 : 30th December 2016 Last week I happened to mention to Merynn that I was on 197 species in the UK for the year and that I would really like to get three more to get to the 200 mark by the end of the year….
Riverbank Road, Neston Old Quay and Burton : 15th November 2016 A high tide of 10.1 metres at 11:10am took us to the Wirral again on a birding group morning out. We started out at Riverbank Road which was moderately busy but we managed to get a parking place facing on to the marsh. As…
