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Spoonbills, Spotted Crake and Redshank at Burton Mere Wetlands : 28th July 2016
Spoonbills, Spotted Crake and Redshank at Burton Mere Wetlands : 28th July 2016
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Summary June 2016
Summary June 2016 Species this month = 82 New Species added to 2016 Year List in June = 11 Hooded Crow near Grantown on Spey and Guillemots, Razorbills, Kittiwakes, Shags and a Puffin at the Bullers of Buchan on the 3rd, King Eider on the Ythan Estuary at Newburgh on the 5th, Rock Pipit at Fowlsheugh on the 6th, Arctic Tern on the Isle of…
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Marbury Park 21st June 2016
Marbury Park 21st June 2016 Despite not having much time between our Scotland holiday and our Canada holiday, I managed to squeeze in the last day of the birding group term. The had been going to Tittisworth but a recce indicated that it was too flooded to be much good. Accordingly the penultimate date at Marbury Country Park became the last day of the term…
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Scottish Birding Holiday May / June 2016
Scottish Birding Holiday May / June 2016 Our holiday to Scotland was really to go to my brother’s for his 70th birthday. In 2014 when we went to Scotland birding at about the same time (perhaps 4 days earlier) we felt that we had done rather better but then we were guided by John Poyner; this time we decided not to be as intense and…
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Scotland Holiday Day 13: Moffat Community Nature Reserve 10th June 2016
Scotland Holiday Day 13: Moffat Community Nature Reserve 10th June 2016 This was technically the last day of our holiday and it was all returning home now. We had decided to break the trip from Musselburgh to Manchester by staying at a pub in Penrith so as not to arrive on a Friday night in Manchester rush hour traffic after a long drive. So, with…
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Scotland Holiday Day 12: Aberlady Bay 9th June 2016
Scotland Holiday Day 12: Aberlady Bay 9th June 2016 With a bit of time to spare on our second day in the Musselburgh area, we decided to drive down the coast to Aberlady. We parked in the small car park near the boardwalk and walked the mile and a half each way out to the sea. As you walk through marshy land first, then through…
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Scotland Holiday Day 11: Bass Rock 8th June 2016
Scotland Holiday Day 11: Bass Rock 8th June 2016 After we left St Andrews, we drove to Musselburgh, our next family destination, but we were early enough that we decided to drive down to the Scottish Seabird Centre at North Berwick. Totally out of the blue Inoticed that there was a boat trip out to the Bass Rock in about an hour. Anne was not…

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