The first birding group morning out of the autumn term was, as it often is, to Pennington Flash. The weather forecast was for mainly dry with occasional light showers. Shortly after we arrived it started raining and progressively got worse until it was heavy rain all the way round and back to the car park…
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It was two and a half months ago we last went to Burton Mere Wetlands. In fact, it has been two and a half months since we have done any birding at all. A prolonged heat wave (summer, actually) meant that we hardly wanted to go the effort at the quiet time of year when…
After our morning at Burton Mere Wetlands, we repaired to Pesto at the Yacht where ten of us had lunch and went on to plan the next batch of mornings out starting again in September. The details are:
The last day of the Spring/Summer Birding Group term saw us at Burton Mere Wetlands on a day that, despite the rather grim weather forecasts, turned out to be a nice sunny and warm morning with not too much of the recent humidity. Although we didn’t see anything very special there was at least one…
Our annual overnight stay was a trip to Anglesey where we hoped to get as many cliff breeding birds as possible at RSPB South Stack. The weather turned out to be fine and the traffic wasn’t too bad, so we were hopeful for a great couple of days of birding.
The first outing of June for the birding group was to the Goyt Valley and Dane Bank Quarry. We had somewhat mixed weather and also mixed results. Our target birds here are always Pied and Spotted Flycatchers, Redstarts, Tree Pipits and, at the quarry, Ring Ouzel and Wheatear. We were disappointed in some of these…
Our, nearly two-week, holiday around Sussex and Norfolk in May 2026 involved us mixing a bit of birding with visiting friends. Over the period we stayed at “The Old Pheasant” at Oakham, near Rutland Water, The Woodcutters Lodge in Lynford Arboretum in Norfolk followed by a night with friends at Bury St Edmunds and two…
