Birding Group Visit to Leighton Moss : 11th October 2016 At this time of year the birding group likes to go to Leighton Moss as it is at this time of year that the resident Bearded Tits turn from insect eaters into seed eaters. This change necessitates the ingestion of grit to aid in the…
Birding Group : Burton Mere Wetlands : 4th October 2016 The second birding group outing f the sutumn term was to Burton Mere Wetlands. The best birds were again the Black Swans and Little Stints, the latter both from the reception hide and Inner Marsh Farm. As with our previous visit a few days before…
Birding Group Schedule for Autumn 2016
High Tide at Hoylake, Riverbank Road and Burton Mere Wetlands : 1st October 2016 The weekend of the 1st and 2nd of October was “Wirral Wader Festival” with lots of events at Thurstaston, Hoylake and Red Rocks etc. With a “low” high tide, only 9.2 metres, at 12.30pm we thought that Hoylake was probably the…
Summary September 2016 Species this month = 60 New Species added to 2016 Year List in September= 1 Little Stint at Inner Marsh Farm on 8th September 2016 New UK Life List Birds In June = 0 Running Total for the 2016 UK So Far = 185
Birding Group : Pennington Flash : 27th September 2016 The first day of the birding group’s autumn season started with a visit to Pennington Flashes on quite a pleasant morning – eventually. There had been very large numbers of Coots here recently but most of those seem to have moved on. There was a reasonble…
Connah’s Quay and Burton Mere Wetlands 8th September 2016 A weather forecast indicating poor weather getting better by mid-morning saw us set off for a visit to Connah’s Quay, a reserve we have not been to in a while, and Burton Mere Wetlands. It is getting to the time when we can expect to see…
Summary August 2016 Species this month = 88 New Species added to 2016 Year List in August= 5 Green Sandpiper (WWT Slimbridge) on 20th, Curlew Sandpiper (WWT Slimbridge) on 21st, Litle Owl (Studland Bay) on 27th, Sparrowhawk (at WWT Steart Marshes) on 28th, Glossy Ibis (Shapwick Heath) on 30th. New UK Life List Birds In…
WWT Slimbridge 31st August 2016 We had a long drive ahead of us up to Manchester and it turned out to be bir arduous and our worst trtaffic of the holiday despite most of it being over a bank holiday and our return day being a normal day. Still we thought we had time for…
WWT Slimbridge 30th August 2016 We arrived from Shapwick Heath at Slimbridge about ten minutes to two o’clock and we rushed to the reception to see if they were running a Range Rover tour of the site. We had tried twice before on this holiday but wet ground had meant that the trailey they mount…
