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Birding Group visit to Flint and Burton Mere Wetlands 19th March 2019
I missed the birding group visit to Neumann’s Flash on the 12th March due to bad weather but I did manage to get to the one on the 19th to Flint. Unfortunately there wasn’t a lot there and we had to wait a couple of hours for the tide to recede and a few, common,
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Birding Group Visit to Marshside and Martin Mere – 5th March 2019
The first birding group outing of March was to Marshside and it was windy as ever and only moderately interesting. We had dome by about noon so we decided to go to Martin Mere which was a bit more interesting and gave us a good range of species even though there was nothing especially exciting.
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February 2019 : Monthly Summary
February 2019 : Summary UK Species Year List to February : 103 Total UK Species in February : 100 New “Year Ticks” in February : 31 New “Life Ticks” in February : 1
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Birding Group Sandbach Flashes 26th February 2019
We had a nice morning out on a beautiful sunny day – unbelievable for February but we have had a few recently. We had a year tick Green Sandpiper and Tree Sparrow and Common Snipe were more regular ticks, but still first for the year. A nice group of male and female Goosanders were colourful
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Overnight Stay at Parkgate for High Tide on the Wirral 21-22 February 2019
We have been planning an overnight visit to Parkgate so we could get the chance to see the birds of prey coming into the overnight roost at Neston. WIth a high tide of 10.12 metres at 12:20pm we thought that if we stayed over we could get two high tides at Parkgate and the evening
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Birding Group visit to Hoylake, New Bighton and Parkgate : 19th February 2019
The birding group visit for 19th February was to Hoylake and New Brighton for the high-ish tide of 9.6 metres at 10:48pm but this left us time to add on a visit to Parkgate after those two places and this gave us probably the best one hour of raptor watching we have ever had.
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Blythe’s Reed Warbler – Hope Carr Nature Reserve, 14th February 2019
We saw on Birdguides that the Blythe’s Reed Warbler thathas been around at Hope Carr Nature Reserve had been showing early in the day on the perimiter fence at the sewage works at the end of Hope Carr Terrace. It has been around for a while and we tried to see it the previous Tuesday

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