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Visit to Lodmore RSPB : 25th June 2011
Visit to Lodmore RSPB : 25th June 2011 Just a short drive away along the A353 is the Lodmore RSPB reserve. We hadn’t been there before but a couple of people we met at Radipole Lake told us that it is often more productive than Radipole so we decided to go there. There is parking attached to Sea World which adjoins the site but we…
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Visit to Radipole Lake RSPB : 25th June 2011
Visit to Radipole Lake RSPB : 25th June 2011 Anne and I had spent the previous day attending the wedding of our friends’ daughter in Montacute in Somerset and this day we thought we should leave them all alone until meeting up again in the evening so we decided to drive down to the RSP sites at Radipole Lake and the nearby Lodmore reserve on…
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Visit to Slimbridge WWT : 23rd June 2011
Visit to Slimbridge WWT : 23rd June 2011 We were on our way to Montacute in Somerset for a wedding and we had stayed overnight at the Tudor Arms pub in Slimbridge village in order to break our journey up a bit and also to give us a chance to go to the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust centre there which we did in the morning.…
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Visit to Arlingham and Slimbridge Village : 22nd June 2011
Visit to Arlingham and Slimbridge Village : 22nd June 2011 We were scheduled to attend a wedding on the 24th June at Montacute in Somerset so we decided to break up our journey by stopping off at Slimbridge in Gloucestershire. On our way there we took a bit of a detour to look at a restaurant,” The Old Passage” in Arlingham (also in Gloucester)This is…
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Birding Group Visit to Rixton Clay Pits : 21st June 2011
Birding Group Visit to Rixton Clay Pits : 21st June 2011 This week’s birding group visit was to Rixton Clay Pits, a former clay extraction point now turned over to angling and parts of it are a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The general feel of the area is scrubland / woodland with a big lake for angling and further smaller ponds. There are footpaths…
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“The Secret Lives of Garden Birds” by Dominic Couzens
“The Secret Lives of Garden Birds” by Dominic Couzens I came across a first edition hardback copy of this book at our local Oxfam shop so I only paid £3.99p for it which was quite a bargain. I mainly know of Dominic Couzens from his regular features in “Bird Watching” magazine where he specialises in articles about the “secret lives” or little known facts about…
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Day Out To RSPB Lake Vyrnwy Nature Reserve : 16 June 2011
Day Out To RSPB Lake Vyrnwy Nature Reserve : 16 June 2011 We had stayed the previous night at a hotel in LLongollen because we had been on the Nightjar walk in the Coed LLandegla Forest until midnight so we didn’t want to travel back to Manchester late at night. This meant we had a chance to do something else we had been wanting to…
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