Birding Group Day Out to Marbury Country Park 4th October 2011 We were hoping that today’s birding group visit to Marbury Country Park would be a chance to catch up with those birds who had seemed to be lying low of recent weeks but we walked through the woods at Marbury with hardly a sight…
Day Out to Martin Mere WWT 2nd October 2011 I had been looking for a new pair of binoculars and since I usually get my kit from the “In Focus” shop at Martin Mere WWT I asked them to let me know when they had a pair of Swarovski 8.5 x 42 ELs in stock…
Summary of September 2011 The highlight of September was undoubtedly our holiday in Scotland which took in visits to RSPB Inversnaid, Lerrocks Farm in Doune, Stirlingshire, the SWT site at Loch of the Lowes, Forvie and the Ythan estuary, Montrose Basin and Caerlaverock WWT all in the space of around a week. We saw over…
Day Out To Pennington Flash 21st September 2011 We fancied a couple of hours out as the weather wasn’t too bad so we decided to go to Pennington Flash. Before we even got on the motorway in Chorlton we had great views of a Buzzard considering whether to land on a roadside tree. In the…
Scotland Visit Day 7 : WWT Caerlaverock : 14th September 2011 Although we were due to return to Manchester this day, we still managed to get a couple of hours in at Caerlaverock again before continuing our journey. We started off by doing the short circular of the Peter Scott trail and in the woods…
Scotland Visit Day 6 : WWT Caerlaverock : 13th September 2011 On the Tuesday morning we drove from Stirling to Dumfries. The weather wasn’t brilliant but the worst of the storms seemed to pass in the night. We had planned on going over to the west coast and then driving down and then inland again…
Scotland Visit Day 5 : Montrose Basin : 12th September 2011 On Monday we had to return to Manchester but we still had a couple of interesting places to visit on our way back. Firstly we wanted to go to Montrose Basin Local Nature Reserve and then to break up the journey a bit we planned…
Scotland Visit Day 3 & 4 : Forvie & The Ythan Estuary : 10th September 2011 We has been to various bits of the Ythan estuary on previous visits to Aberdeen-shire but we wanted to go to the parts where we might have a chance of seeing waders. We were also interested in going to…
Scotland Visit Day 2 : Loch of the Lowes : 9th September 2011 We left Stirling on Friday with the intention of getting to Aberdeen by around 6pm. This gave us just enough time to drop in to the Loch of the Lowes Scottish Wildlife trust reserve on our way up. We didn’t have a…
Scotland Visit Day 1 : Lerrocks Farm : 8th September 2011 The main reason that we had decided to stay in Stirling was to attend the Red Kite feeding at Lerrocks Farm in Doune, Stirlingshire. We had gone to RSPB Inversnaid, on the banks of Loch Lomond, in the morning but we had to leave earlier…
