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Day Out to Martin Mere WWT 13th December 2011
Day Out to Martin Mere WWT 13th December 2011 The birding group usually occupies our Tuesdays but last week was the last group-day before Christmas so we were keen to get out for a day birding before the demands of Christmas got too pressing and before the bad weather set in. We fancied going up to Martin Mere WWT – a regular haunt of ours but…
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Sale Water Park 12th December 2011
Sale Water Park 12th December 2011 In a break in the patch of wet weather we have had recently I went for a walk in Chorlton – along the burn, down to the Mersey, over the bridge and through Sale Water Park and returning to Chorlton Green via Jackson’s Bridge. Normally this would be a fairly mundane walk with no great expectation of seeing anything…
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Bird Group Meeting at Dunham Massey Park 6 Dec 2011
Bird Group Meeting at Dunham Massey Park 6 Dec 2011 On 6th December we all met up at Dunham Massey but the weather was pretty poor so we only went for a short walk after lunch there. The lunch was the birding group’s end of term meeting to plan for the next term where a rough schedule was made up as follows :
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Summary November 2011
Summary November 2011 November saw a range of weather from the very mild and sunny to the misty, cold and autumnal. The month started mild and then by the end of the first week there was a little rain and a considerable amount of mist, overcast skies and, of course, the evenings are dark with dusk being around 5pm. Towards the middle of the month…
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Birding Group Day Out to Sandbach Flashes 29th November 2011
Birding Group Day Out to Sandbach Flashes 29th November 2011 I hadn’t been to Sandbach Flashes before so I looked it up in “Where to Watch Birds : North West England & the Isle of Man” by A. Conlin et al. This describes Sandbach Flashes as “a series of 15 or so shallow pools formed during the last century as a result of salt mining.…
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Birding Group Day Out to Neumann’s Flash & Haydyn’s Pool 22nd November 2011
Birding Group Day Out to Neumann’s Flash & Haydyn’s Pool 22nd November 2011 The birding group were a little bit concerned that the visit to Neumann’s Flash and Haydyn’s Pool wouldn’t be very fruitful because of the lack of rain recently but, as it happened, the pools were quite full. In truth there wasn’t that much around but there were a couple of good sighting…
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Chorlton Water Park 20th November 2011
Chorlton Water Park 20th November 2011 On the water at Chorlton Water Park we saw the usual Canada Geese, Black-headed Gulls, Mallards, Coots and Mute Swans but there were also about a dozen Tufted Ducks, an adult Great Crested Grebe with two juveniles and a pair of Pochard. We met a young boy who was fishing and he said that he had seen a Kingfisher…
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