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Birding Group Visit to Marbury Park : 28th October 2014
Birding Group Visit to Marbury Park : 28th October 2014 The birding group day out this week was supposed to be to RSPB Conwy and Llanfairfechan but a combination of a poor weather forecast, school mid-term and some flu meant that we were reduced to a group of five and we decided to just have a morning at Marbury Park. It wasn’t a particularly outstanding…
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Birding Group Visit to RSPB Leighton Moss : 14th October 2014
Birding Group Visit to RSPB Leighton Moss : 14th October 2014 The first birding group day our after our return from Mallorca was to RSPB Leighton Moss where we were hoping – as usual – that we might get views of Bearded Tits at the grit trays. On the plus side, October is the best month for this it seems, but on the negative side…
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Birding in Mallorca, October 2014
Birding in Mallorca, October 2014 We flew out to Mallorca on the 29th September arriving in Palma where we stayed for four days. We didn’t do any birding there but some friends drove us north from Palma over the mountains and down to Port de Pollenca and during this drive we had great sightings of Black Vultures (Aegypius monachus) in the vicinity of Lluc Monastery…
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Summary : September 2014
Summary : September 2014 Birding Days Out Our birding month was late in starting but then got off to a cracking start with sightings of two UK life listers in Cattle Egret and Red-necked Phalarope.. Added to this were Curlew and Pectoral Sandpipers, Greenshank and Little Stints. All these from RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands The visit to Burton Mere Wetlands was a last minute replacement…
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Birding Group Visit to Burton Mere Wetlands : 23rd September 2014
Birding Group Visit to Burton Mere Wetlands : 23rd September 2014 The birding group started up towards the end of September and as luck would have it the first date was to Burton Mere Wetlands. We had been there a couple of times recently and we knew that others in the birding group had as well because we met them there. Anyway, we were happy…
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Heswall Shore at High Tide : 11th September 2014
Heswall Shore at High Tide : 11th September 2014 We had planned to do this walk from the car park at Banks Road, Heswall along the shore to Thurstston Country Park, at high tide. The high tide was due to be at 13.24hrs (BST) with a height of 9.9m. We were a bit early so we thought we would drop in to Burton Mere Wetlands…
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Red-necked Phalarope : Inner Marsh Farm : 9th September 2014
Red-necked Phalarope : Inner Marsh Farm : 9th September 2014 Would you be tempted to drive for an hour in order to see a Cattle Egret, a Red-necked Phalarope, Pectoral and Curlew Sandpipers, Greenshank and Little Stint all on the one scrape ? Well we were tempted because all of these birds were reported to be at RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands and, apart from the…
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