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Day Out To Tatton Park : 3rd August 2011
Day Out To Tatton Park : 3rd August 2011 We drove out to Tatton Park, parking in the usual place at the south side of Tatton Mere. We walked through the woods which were pretty quiet although we did see a Nuthatch and a Song Thrush as well as the more familiar suspects. On the Mere were lots of Coots with their young, now pretty…
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Summary of July 2011
Summary of July 2011 Weather Very hot at the start of the month getting wetter towards the end of the first week. By the middle of the month it had gotten very wet. We were away between the 14th – 18th and on return we got the impression that there had been heavy rain throughout the period. By 24th warm to hot and sunnier again…
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Day Out To Upper Derwent Valley : 28th July 2011
Day Out To Upper Derwent Valley : 28th July 2011 The Upper Derwent Valley is an area of the Peak District National Park and within it are various sites including Ladybower Reservoir, Derwent Reservoir and Howden Reservoir and their associated dams. From the visitor centre (on weekdays only) you can drive all the way up to “Kings Tree” where there is parking. From there we…
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Day Out To WWT Martin Mere : 26th July 2011
Day Out To WWT Martin Mere : 26th July 2011 We went up to Martin Mere mainly because I wanted to get a part exchange price on my 4 year old Opticron scope from the “In Focus” store there. I spoke to Andy Bunting who works in the shop there and who we have talked to on previous occasions. In fact if memory serves me…
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“The Running Sky: A Birdwatching Life” by Tim Dee : 20 July 2011
“The Running Sky: A Birdwatching Life” by Tim Dee : 20 July 2011 “The Running Sky” is one of those bird books that belongs to the “emotional” or “aesthetic” tradition of natural history writings. In twelve chapters, one for each month of the year starting in June, Dee relates stories from a lifetime of birding. In his own words “it follows a single year of…
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Visit To Musselburgh Links : 17 Jul 2011
Visit To Musselburgh Links : 17 Jul 2011 On the last day of our visit to Musselburgh we decided to try a site that we had tried to get at before but which was then fenced off. I discovered a map of this site in “Where to Watch Birds in Britain” (entry no 364) so we decided to try again and this time we came…
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Boat Trip To Isle of May and Bass Rock : 16 Jul 2011
Boat Trip To Isle of May and Bass Rock : 16 Jul 2011 We went up to Scotland in the middle of July to visit relatives but I was also aware that there was only another week or so to go before the Puffins would leave the islands in the Firth of Forth off the east coast of Scotland and then they would be out…
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