Provisional Bird Group Venues for Winter Term
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We travelled from Oxfordshire to Somerset to visit friends and this gave us a whole day to check out both RSPB Ham Wall and also the neighbouring Shapwick Heath. It was a lot colder than we expected and it felt more like a winter day than a spring day. Be that as it may, we…
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…
The first birding group trip for us in a while was supposed to be North Wales but the recent poor weather sent us, instead, to Pennington Flash where, surprisingly enough, it was actually quite mild with no wind to add the generally low temperatures. As usual for Pennington there was a good variety of birds…
Stodmarsh NNR : 25th June 2015 On the morning of the 25th June we set out from Canterbury to Winchelsea with a planned stop off en route atthe Natural England Stodmarsh Nature Reserve. This was another well reviewed birding site and we were not to be disappointed with a good range of birds and some…
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…
Scotland Holiday Day 11: Bass Rock 8th June 2016 After we left St Andrews, we drove to Musselburgh, our next family destination, but we were early enough that we decided to drive down to the Scottish Seabird Centre at North Berwick. Totally out of the blue Inoticed that there was a boat trip out to…
