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  • Holiday Birding March 2018

      Our American holiday this year took us to San Diego, Big Island, Maui and San Francisco. San Diego In San Diego we found a rather splendid site at Imperial Beach, San Diego Bay. We actually ran into a few birders who were looking for a (locally rare) Flamingo. They gave us some pointers and helped us identify some tricker birds – well, at least…

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  • February 2018 Summary

    February 2018  Summary UK Species Year List to February: 92 Total UK Species in February: 82 New “Year Ticks” in February: 24 New “Life Ticks” in February: 0  

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  • Pennington Flash 20th February 2018

    We got finished with the birding group quite early this day so we decided to go for just an hour to Pennington so we only took in Horrocks Hide , Pengy’s and the Bunting Hide. It was half-term so the place was heaving and we didn’t stay long. But we did get some birds while we were there including a KIngfisher

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  • Wigan Flashes 20th February 2018

    The birding group visit this week was to Wigan Flashes, somewhere where I haven’t been since April 2016 Again, it was a rare dry February day so we were glad to get out. It would be fair to say that we saw nothing particularly special but in the lovely sunlight there were really nice groups – and decent numbers – of both Pochard and Goldeneye.

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  • High-ish Tide on the Wirral 16th February 2018

    Poor weather had kept us from birding in February but a drier day and a highish tide on the Wirral (9.13m at 11:33am) got us out again and it turned out to be a pretty good day with visits to Hoylake, West Kirby, Burton Mere Wetlands and Connah’s Quay.

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  • High Tide of The Wirral 2nd February 2018

    The first high tide of the year that we were able to get to was a 10 metre tide at 12.21pm. We drove up to Burton Mere Wetlands to stop off for a coffee and comfort break and had a quick look around first. As soon as we entered the reception hide we could see a Marsh Harrier flying low over the reeds just by…

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  • January 2018 Summary

    January 2018  Summary UK Species Year List to January: 68 Total UK Species in January: 68 New “Year Ticks” in January: 68 New “Life Ticks” in January: 0  

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