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Scotland Holiday Day 3 – 8th July 2012 : Corncrakes on Iona
Scotland Holiday Day 3 – 8th July 2012 : Corncrakes on Iona We arrived on Mull on Saturday 7th July and by the time we were settled into our self-catering cottage the rain was pouring down and things did not seem very auspicious at all. However by 9 am the next morning things were much better and we were picked up by our tour guides,…
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Summary June 2012
Summary June 2012 Garden The good weather that was a feature of the end of May was promptly replaced by heavy rain for the start of and this lasted for most of the month. Our pair of Blackbirds had three fledglings that they were feeding in our garden and a little later that appeared to be four fledglings. A Coal Tit and two fledgling Coal…
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Birding Group Day Out to Martin Mere WWT 26th June 2012
Birding Group Day Out to Martin Mere WWT 26th June 2012 This weeks birding day was at WWT Martin Mere. Unusually for us we started at the United Utilities hide first because there had been talk of a Barn Owl flying as late as 11am. Unfortunately we didn’t manage to see it but, as is often the case, we did get great views of the…
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Birding Group Visit to RSPB Burton Mere Wetland 18th June 2012
Birding Group Visit to RSPB Burton Mere Wetland 18th June 2012 Our birding group day out this week was on a Monday rather than a Tuesday and this was to match up with the high tide which should push more birds onto the reserve. As it happens there has been so much rain recently that the water levels were very high on the reserves and…
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Birding Group Visit to Goyt Valley 12th June 2012
Birding Group Visit to Goyt Valley 12th June 2012 Our morning outing today was to the Goyt Valley which is located between Macclesfield and Buxton in the Peak District National Park. The valley is close to the Cheshire and Derbyshire county border. The River Goyt that flows through the valley rises high on Axe Edge Moor near the Cat and Fiddle Public House and flows…
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Summary May 2012
Summary May 2012 Garden The start of May saw a little improvement in the weather as some of the heavy rain stopped. On 3rd May we saw a newly fledged Dunnock pecking around trying out various things to see if they were edible. By the end of our holiday mid-month we saw our first – and by the end of the month – only fledgling…
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Visit to Cemlyn Bay, Anglesey, Wales 30th May 2012
Visit to Cemlyn Bay, Anglesey, Wales 30th May 2012 After our couple of days with the birding group we wanted to stay another day and go to Cemlyn Bay again and perhaps a few other places. It wasn’t to be quite that way in the end but we had a good start when we revisited Cemlyn Bay. There wasn’t really all that much new there…
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