Birding Group Visit to Goyt Valley 4th June 2013 The birding group visit to Goyt Valley was always going to be interesting because last year we decided that we had probably left it too late to go there. This year it was decided to go a couple of weeks earlier but, of course, this year…
Summary May 2013 On the 8th May we saw four House Martins (the first for the year for us) starting to nest under the eaves of one of the new flat blocks opposite the Thai restaurant. We saw one nest but at least two other birds were also to-ing and fro-ing so I expected to…
Visit To Burton Mere Wetland, Iner Marsh Farm and Parkgate 30th May 2013 On the 30th May we spent the day out at Burton Mere Wetland, Inner Marsh Farm and Parkgate. We started out at the reception hide where we could see a decent number of Avocet. Unfortunately the young had been badly predated by…
Birding Group Visit To Neumann’s Flash and Haydn’s Pool 21st May 2013 The birding group visit to Neumann’s Flash and environs was notable for the fact that, apart from the three of us, there were only two others, Richard and David Hulse, in attendance whichwas a shame but it was an interesting dynamic being such…
Visit to Brockholes Nature Reserve 17th May 2013 The weather forecast looked like giving us one day this week where it probably wouldn’t rain so we decided to go out for the day and since Anne had not yet been to Brockholes nature reserve near Preston, we thought we should go there. The last time…
Birding Group Visit To Macclesfield Forest 14th May 2013 Despite the weather forecast being a bit iffy, we went out to Macclesfield Forest and the weather was kind to us remaining dry and sunny if a bit windy. We parked up at the bottom of the woods next to the reservoir and walked up into…
Birding Group Visit to Staley Brushes 7th May 2013 This was our first visit to Staley Brushes with the birding group; previously we have either been on holiday or it has been raining so the venue was changed at the last minute. We had no such problem today as it was a lovely sunny and…
Summary April 2013 Garden Although April started out still cold, there were some signs in the first week of the possibility of Spring happening. It has at least been dry for a couple of weeks so the surrounding countryside is getting a chance to soak up the record rainfalls of March. Disturbingly there have been…
Visit to WWT Slimbridge 30th April 2013 We had stopped off at Slimbridge to break up our journey back from Somerset to Manchester and again we stayed at the Tudor Arms Hotel in Slimbridge. This afforded us a chance to go to WWT Slimbridge once again before we had to go home. We started off…
Visit to RSPB Shapwick Heath 29th April 2013 Flushed with our glorious sighting of three Bitterns at the Ham Wall end of Ashcott Road, we crossed over the car park and onto the Shapwick Heath reserve. We walked up to the pools on Meare Heath and there were a couple of people who had been…
