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  • Test posting using the wordpress app

    After trying several other ways of blogging on the tab 2 I am wondering if this isn’t the easiest way after all This works if you tap the bottom right button. With the photo you can also click the bottom right edit button and resize, align and name the photo. Bold Italic Strike through Underline

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  • 2014 Annual Summary

    2014 Annual Summary The tail end of 2013 had seen some great birds (Ross’ Goose, Long-tailed Duck, Two-barred and Common Crossbill, Hoopoe, American Buff-bellied Pipit and Siberian Chiffchaff) but 2014 was not without its great birding days either. We managed twenty life ticks in 2014 and our annual UK list stood at 193 species.

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  • Summary : December 2014

    Summary : December 2014 Birding Group Days Out The first birding group day of December was to Moore Nature Reserve and whilst there was a reasonable smattering of birds, the day was pretty average with one exception, a Tawny Owl – my first ! How strange that, the very next week, at a full day

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  • Bittern at Budworth Mere : 30th December 2014

    Bittern at Budworth Mere : 30th December 2014 After reading reports of a Bittern in the reed bed at Budworth Mere for a couple of days, I thought that this could be a great chance to end the birding year (most likely) if I could manage to coincide with this bird. A group of us

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  • Burton Mere Wetlands : 23 December 2014

    Burton Mere Wetlands : 23 December 2014 To finish off our birding day on the Wirral, after stops at Hoylake for the high tide followed by a visit to New Brighton Marine Lake to see the Purple Sandpipers, we dropped in on Burton Mere Wetlands on the way back. We started off at the reception

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  • Purple Sandpipers at New Brighton Marine Lake : 23rd December 2014

    Purple Sandpipers at New Brighton Marine Lake : 23rd December 2014 After a bit of a disappointing spell at Hoylake with a rather birdless high tide at Hoylake, I decided that it was worth a shot popping over to New Brighton to look for Purple Sandpipers. I had read that they were to be found

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  • High Tide at Hoylake : 23rd December 2015

    High Tide at Hoylake : 23rd December 2015 A last visit to Hoylake for 2014 was for a high tide of 9.7m at 11.45am. Whilst the tide came in as expected and it came in quite far, for some reason the birds did not appear as expected. There were certainly plenty of Oystercatchers and Curlew

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