April
05 Moore
12 Burton
19 Wigan Flashes
26 RSPB LEIGHTON MOSS
MAY
03 Macclesfield Forest
10 STAYLEY BRUSHES
17 RSPB DOVE STONES
24 rspb OLD MOOR (near Barnsley)
31 Goyt Valley (+ Danebower Quarry?)
JUNE
07 Neumann’s & Haydn’s Flashes
13/14 Anglesey
21 Marbury ( proposals for Autumn programme over lunch)
28 Tittesworth Reservoir (+ rspb Coombes valley?), including pub lunch to confirm Autumn programme) ?
Summary October2012 Garden The start of October was very wet with some really torrential downpours. A few days towards the middle of the month were sunny and cold but the rain kept coming back in, sometimes, biblical quantities. October saw the return of Blackbirds and we have had a noisy pair in the garden recently….
Birding Group Visit to Poynton Park and Bramhall Woods 27th February 2012 The scheduled visit to Bramhall Park woods was slightly altered so we could go to Poynton Park to try to see the Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers that have been widely seen there. Unfortunately we didn’t see any. This was not the first time I…
Cemlyn Bay We met a chap at South Stack who told us that we had to go to Cemlyn Bay to see the Terns that breed there. This was on our list of places to go but with a strong recommendation we decided we would head there from South Stack. Cemlyn Bay is a small…
Although the weather reports for the Wirral were poor, we decided to risk the weather to have a go at finding the Great Northern Diver seen recently on West Kirby Marine Lake. We knew that on a Sunday it might be busy but we had forgotten that the tide was as far out as it…
The first week of our holiday ended when we left Horning and headed towards Thornham where we were due to spend a week at the cottage we have previously hired from our “friends” Tom and Anita. It was a bit of a drive and we wanted to do some shopping for food and drink and…
October 2017 Summary UK Species Year List to September: 189 Total UK Species in October: 39 (in UK – 87 in Mallorca) New “Year Ticks” in October: 0 New “Life Ticks” in October: 0 (1 in Mallorca)
