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Birding Group Visit to Wales 29th May 2012 : The Fish Dock and Soldiers Point, Holyhead The Fish Dock After the birding group had finished eating the night before, Anne and I thought we would try to see if we could find the Fish Dock at Holyhead Harbour which was just over the road a…
Summary 2013 We had several holidays or breaks where we had an opportunity to see birds we would not normally see or just to get our “year list” up to speed. These included our first guided birding during a visit to Norfolk and Cambridgeshire in March, a visit to Somerset and Dorset in May that…
We went to Tatton Park, principally to look over the gardens but I managed to get a little bird-watching in, both round the gardens and then, after a short walk, down at the meres. It wasn’t a great birding day but, such is the current Covid 19 situation, I still managed to get a couple…
Birding Group Visit to Wigan Flashes 6th March 2012 Our visit to Wigan Flashes, which had been postponed previously, turned out to be something of a let-down due to the heavy mist over all the water. Although it was a gloriously sunny morning when we left Manchester by the time we got to the motorway…
“Owl” by Desmond Morris is part of the “Animal” range of books published by Reaktion Books. I had previously read “Falcon” by Helen Macdonald and like that book, Owl deals in great measure with the mythical, sociological and iconographic history of Owls as well as the natural history of owls. In this book, however, the…
Leighton Moss RSPB : 26th April 2016 The last birding group day of the month (and our last until we are back from holiday in Norfork etc.) was to Leighton Moss. The day started badly with three different traffic jams that meant that our joutrney there took two hours. When we got there, it was…
