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Summary September 2012
Summary September 2012 Garden The start of September saw an improvement in the weather and by the end of the first week we had seen a few sunny days. On 7th we had a Great Spotted Woodpecker on our nut feeder in the garden which is a rarity. It had a rather stripy red head
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Birding Group Visit to Burton Mere Wetland and Inner Marsh Farm 17th September 2012
Birding Group Visit to Burton Mere Wetland and Inner Marsh Farm 17th September 2012 The Second date of the new birding term for our group was to Burton Mere Wetlands. In the main hide we could see a large number of Greylag and Canada Geese. There were high numbers of Lapwing around thirty Black-tailed Godwits.
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Open Day at Rostherne Mere 15 September 2012
Open Day at Rostherne Mere 15 September 2012 We attended an open day at Rostherne Mere nature reserve organised by Natural England. and CAWOS (The Cheshire and Wirral Ornithological Society). This was to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Boyd Observatory. We had been to Rostherne Mere before but the hide is
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Birding Group Visit to Pennington Flash 11th September 2012
Birding Group Visit to Pennington Flash 11th September 2012 This was the first day of the new term for the birding group and there was quite a good attendance. The weather was very changeable and when we first arrived it started to rain and stayed that way on and off for the rest of the
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Summary August 2012
Summary August 2012 Garden August started with some really sunny weather which was pleasant but it being August the birds are hiding away moulting. The numbers of Goldfinches have increased considerably with the addition of this years cohort. By the middle of the month some of them were starting to moult into their adult plumage
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Day Out to WWT Martin Mere 18th August 2012
Day Out to WWT Martin Mere 18th August 2012 A look at the weather forecast for Burscough suggested a fine day and with the weather being so changeable this month we thought we should drive out to Martin Mere WWT for the day. I was encouraged but recent reports on their web site that there
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Visit to Flamborough Head and Bempton Cliffs : 5th August 2012
Visit to Flamborough Head and Bempton Cliffs : 5th August 2012 For our second day on the east coast we took a drive out to the lighthouse at Flamborough Head and had a walk around the bay there which was very interesting and we could hear a number of small birds among the grass and
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