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Summary of September 2011
Summary of September 2011 The highlight of September was undoubtedly our holiday in Scotland which took in visits to RSPB Inversnaid, Lerrocks Farm in Doune, Stirlingshire, the SWT site at Loch of the Lowes, Forvie and the Ythan estuary, Montrose Basin and Caerlaverock WWT all in the space of around a week. We saw over 50 species including some nice sightings of Buzzards, Kestrels and…
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Day Out To Pennington Flash 21st September 2011
Day Out To Pennington Flash 21st September 2011 We fancied a couple of hours out as the weather wasn’t too bad so we decided to go to Pennington Flash. Before we even got on the motorway in Chorlton we had great views of a Buzzard considering whether to land on a roadside tree. In the end it didn’t but we had good views of it…
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Scotland Visit Day 7 : WWT Caerlaverock : 14th September 2011
Scotland Visit Day 7 : WWT Caerlaverock : 14th September 2011 Although we were due to return to Manchester this day, we still managed to get a couple of hours in at Caerlaverock again before continuing our journey. We started off by doing the short circular of the Peter Scott trail and in the woods there we saw some small passerines and also heard a…
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Scotland Visit Day 6 : WWT Caerlaverock : 13th September 2011
Scotland Visit Day 6 : WWT Caerlaverock : 13th September 2011 On the Tuesday morning we drove from Stirling to Dumfries. The weather wasn’t brilliant but the worst of the storms seemed to pass in the night. We had planned on going over to the west coast and then driving down and then inland again to get to Dumfries but since this was where the…
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Scotland Visit Day 5 : Montrose Basin : 12th September 2011
Scotland Visit Day 5 : Montrose Basin : 12th September 2011 On Monday we had to return to Manchester but we still had a couple of interesting places to visit on our way back. Firstly we wanted to go to Montrose Basin Local Nature Reserve and then to break up the journey a bit we planned to stay the night in Dumfries so that we could…
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Scotland Visit Day 3 & 4 : Forvie & The Ythan Estuary : 10th September 2011
Scotland Visit Day 3 & 4 : Forvie & The Ythan Estuary : 10th September 2011 We has been to various bits of the Ythan estuary on previous visits to Aberdeen-shire but we wanted to go to the parts where we might have a chance of seeing waders. We were also interested in going to the the Forvie visitor centre to find out a bit…
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Scotland Visit Day 2 : Loch of the Lowes : 9th September 2011
Scotland Visit Day 2 : Loch of the Lowes : 9th September 2011 We left Stirling on Friday with the intention of getting to Aberdeen by around 6pm. This gave us just enough time to drop in to the Loch of the Lowes Scottish Wildlife trust reserve on our way up. We didn’t have a great deal of time but we managed to fit in…
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