“The Running Sky: A Birdwatching Life” by Tim Dee : 20 July 2011 “The Running Sky” is one of those bird books that belongs to the “emotional” or “aesthetic” tradition of natural history writings. In twelve chapters, one for each month of the year starting in June, Dee relates stories from a lifetime of birding….
Visit To Musselburgh Links : 17 Jul 2011 On the last day of our visit to Musselburgh we decided to try a site that we had tried to get at before but which was then fenced off. I discovered a map of this site in “Where to Watch Birds in Britain” (entry no 364) so…
Boat Trip To Isle of May and Bass Rock : 16 Jul 2011 We went up to Scotland in the middle of July to visit relatives but I was also aware that there was only another week or so to go before the Puffins would leave the islands in the Firth of Forth off the…
Boat Trip To Craigleith and Bass Rock : 15 Jul 2011 We went up to Scotland in the middle of July to visit relatives but I was also aware that there was only another week or so to go before the Puffins would leave the islands in the Firth of Forth off the east coast…
Schedule for Birding Group Mornings ; September to December 2011 27 Sept : Pennington 04 Oct : Marbury 11 Oct : Wigan Flashes 18 Oct : Leighton Moss rspb (day trip) 25 Oct : school half term (?) – local trip tbc 01 Nov : Inner Marsh Farm rspb 08 Nov : Moore 15 Nov …
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…
