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Weeting Heath and Lakenheath Fen 1 May 2017
When we left Peterborough, our first call was at Weeting Heath where we had a blank at first but then, suddenly as happens with them, a single Stone Curlew appeared and showed very well pretty much for as long as we had time to stay. A couple of Curlew flew in but I didn’t see
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April 2017 Summary
April 2017 Summary UK Species Year List to April: 129 Total UK Species in April: 92 New “Year Ticks” in April: 25 New “Life Ticks” in April: 0
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Rutland Water 30th April 2017
We started a holiday at Rutland Water where we broke up our journey to Halesworth in Suffolk. This was part of a fortnight taking in Suffolk and Norfolk but having as “bookends” stopovers that allowed us to visit Rutland Water twice – a fortnight apart. “Bookends doesn’t quite cover it as on this first visit
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Woolston Eyes 25th April 2017
After our visit to Moore Nature Reserve with the birding group (actually just six of us) we went to a local pub for kunch before heading off to the nearby Woolston Eyes Reserve where we managed to get a couple of examples of our target bird, Black-necked Grebe, which was a “year tick” for us.
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Birding Group Visit to Moore Nature Reserve : 25th April 2017
On the 25th April we had intended to go to Etherow but David decided that we should not go there, in part because rain (had we had any ?) had washed away some of the path up the hill to the top of the site. Instead we changed our schedule to Moore Nature Reserve.
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Burton Mere Wetlands : 19th April 2017
After a bit of a break from birding due to having a (non-birding) visitor staying with us, we managed to get back out on the 19th for a day at Burton Mere Wetlands. One way and another we seem to have missed early spring this year so this was a chance to catch up with
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Birding Group Visit to the Marshside and Mere Sands Woods 4 April 2017
The first birding group outing in April was to Marshside where we had a good day, with fair weather (but still impossibly windy) and managed to get two good “year ticks” in the shape of a pair of Mediterranean Gulls and a large flock of Golden Plover.
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