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  • Summary October 2013

    Summary October 2013 Garden Things were fairly quiet at the start of the month with just a handful of Goldfinches and a few Blue Tits pretty constant. A Mistle Thrush has been lurking around on the neighbouring house roofs, perhaps eying up their winter supply of berries on the Rowan trees. On the whole though the background temperature has often been quite high and the…

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  • Birding Group Visit to Pennington Flash : 29th October 2013

    Birding Group Visit to Pennington Flash : 29th October 2013 Our birding group morning this week was supposed to be at Wigan Flashes but, as so often happens with Wigan, the poor weather meant that the visit was transferred to Pennington Flash. There were periods of heavy rain and periods of some sunshine so we dodged from hide to hide managing to keep dry and…

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  • Birding Group Visit to RSPB Leighton Moss : 22nd October 2013

    Birding Group Visit to RSPB Leighton Moss : 22nd October 2013 Despite a poor weather forecast the birding group decided to stick with the scheduled visit to RSPB Leighton Moss and it turned out to be a good decision because the weather largely held up and we got at least one notable sighting at one of the main hides and a good number of waders…

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  • Glossy Ibises Bolton : 20th October 2013

    Glossy Ibises Bolton : 20th October 2013 I had been following the presence of four juvenile Glossy Ibises on “Bird News Anywhere” for a few weeks and we even went to the fields at the back of Bob’s Smithy Inn (at 1448 Chorley Old Rd, Bolton BL1 7PX ) on our way up to Scotland on the 2nd of October. That time we had been…

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  • Neumann’s Flash and Haydn’s Pool : 15th October 2013

    Neumann’s Flash and Haydn’s Pool : 15th October 2013 Although we had just got back from holiday in Scotland, I was still keen to go to the birding group visit to Neumann’s Flash and Haydn’s Pool. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost my notebook so have to recall the birds from memory. We took the right hand path from the main road and there were…

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  • Summary of Scottish Birding 4th – 12th October 2013

    Summary of Scottish Birding 4th – 12th October 2013 Our Scottish holiday took in a quick stopover at Montrose Basin, a visit to Loch of Strathbeg and environs and on our return a stopover at WWT Caerlaverock. In between we had three great days of birding in the Highlands in Inverness-shire, Ross and Cromarty and Moray. Over all the sites we saw a minimum of…

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  • WWT Caerlaverock : 12th October 2013

    WWT Caerlaverock : 12th October 2013 Before returning to Manchester we drove over to WWT Caerlaverock to see how the autumn migration was looking on the opposite side of Scotland and that was exactly what we saw. The air was full of Whooper Swans and Barnacle Geese flying in skeins all over the sky flying in all sorts of directions as some arrived there for…

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