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Wales Break Day 3 : Newborough Warren and Penmon Point : 13th May 2011
Newborough Warren On our third day we wanted to look at Newborough Warren on Anglesey which had a good write-up in “Where To Watch Birds in Britain” by Simon Harrap and Nigel Redman. We drove to Maltraeth where we had some breakfast and a look around the estuary and Maltraeth Pool but there really wasn’t that much to see there and it was windy and…
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Wales Break Day 2 : Cemlyn Bay : 12th May 2011
Cemlyn Bay We met a chap at South Stack who told us that we had to go to Cemlyn Bay to see the Terns that breed there. This was on our list of places to go but with a strong recommendation we decided we would head there from South Stack. Cemlyn Bay is a small bay with a shingle beach. The beach rises up to…
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Wales Break Day 2 : South Stack : 12th May 2011
South Stack Our first full day was spent on Anglesey. We started out driving up to the RSPB cafe and shop. When you drive up the road leading to it you are given the impression that the parking is some way from the shop and cafe but if you keep driving past the car park there is further parking just outside the cafe and this…
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Wales Break Day 1 : RSPB Conwy : 11th May 2011
We booked 4 nights in the Premier Inn in Caernarfon with a view to using it as a base for touring Anglesey and The Lleyn Peninsula. On our way we stopped at RSPB Conwy for a spot of lunch and a walk around the reserve. The House Martins and Swallows were flying over the water in their masses. There were also a few swifts. It…
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“Watching Waterbirds with Kate Humble”
I have just read this beginners introduction to the kinds of wild birds you are likely to encounter at a WWT site. Aimed at the newcomer to waterbirds, it splits the birds into logical groups (if not exactly taxonomically correct) and in “Kate’s Top Tips” it appears to aim at provide the reader with various aides-mémoire to help in distinguishing the various species you are…
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Birding Group Visit to Moore Nature Reserve 3rd May 2011
This weeks visit of the birding group was to Moore Nature Reserve again. It was a lovely day – the weather has been very good for a while now – so we had a very pleasant stroll through the woods. Our previous visit had been on 18th January when we had quite a good morning. This time we started by walking down Lapwing Lane past…
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Summary of April 2011
April has been remarkably dry and warm. The Met Office described it this way – “With high pressure influencing the weather for most of the month, it was much warmer, drier and sunnier than normal. The mean temperature was 4.0 °C above the 1971–2000 average and it was the warmest April in the series from 1910, being 0.6 °C warmer than April 2007 (now ranked…
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