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Chorlton Water Park and Kenworthy Woods : 3 February 2017
A break in the wet weather gave us a chance to get out to Chorlton Water Park and Kenworthy Woods. It has been a long time since we hace gone over there, preferring to go further afield for less common birds. It was well overdue for us to visit the water park so we drove
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Summary January 2017
Total UK Species in January : 85 New “Year Ticks” in January : 85 New “Life Ticks” in January : 0
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Pennington Flash : 31 January 2017
The fist birding group date we could make in January was to Pennington Flash on the last day of the month. It started off a little wet but soon dried up. It wasn’t even all that windy ! The main attractions were the possibility of seeing the Long-tailed Duck we had seen last year
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White Storks at Lagos : 17th January 2017
The sad loss of a very good friend took us to Portugal for her funeral. We were in Lagos between 15th – 19th January. The unhappiness of the occasion was soothed a little by the odd couple of hours birding that I managed to fit it. It was a bit of relief from the intense
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Red-crested Pochard and Smew at Newchurch Common 11th January 2017
An expected dry day before some very stormy weather was an opportunity to add to my 2017 year list with the reports of a drake Red-crested Pochard and a redhead Smew at Newchurch Common. As before, we parked at the end of Novscotia Lane and walked down the track rather grandiosely named Overdale Lane.
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North Wales Trip Waxwing, Snow Bunting and Hawfinch: 3 – 4 January 2017
With Christmas and New Year over we decided to take advantage of some dry weather to get out to North Wales to see if we could get our year list off to a good start. Last year we both had colds so we got off to a slow start. Not this year!
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2016 Annual Summary
Summary 2016 I had decided that 2016 was going to be a good birding year for me and I set myself the target of seeing 200 birds in the UK by the end of the year. To this end I had arranged some holidays that would help us get the less common birds.
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