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Summary May 2016
Summary May 2016 Species this month = 132 New Species added to 2016 Year List in May= 41 Barn Owl at Thornham on 8th May, Bar-tailed Godwit at Minsmere on 3rd May, Bearded Tit at Titchwell on 7th, Blackcap and Common Tern at Rutland Water on 13th, Black-throated Diver and Common Sandpiper at Lochindorb on 31st, Common Crane at Horsey Mere on the 6th, Common…
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Scotland Holiday Day 3: Anagach Forest, Lochindorb, Carrbridge, Avielochan and Cairngorm, 31st May 2016
Scotland Holiday Day 3: Anagach Forest, Lochindorb, Carrbridge, Avielochan and Cairngorm, 31st May 2016 I started off the day with an early walk from 5.45am – 7.15am in the Anagach Forest. This time the first animal I encountered was a Roe Deer and in the woods the bird feeders were dominated by Red Squirrels – I saw around six of them. Still no Crested Tits…
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Scotland Holiday Day 2: Laggan and Anagach Forest, 30th May 2016
Scotland Holiday Day 2: Laggan and Anagach Forest, 30th May 2016 On our way to Grantown on Spey we saw a Raven, a pair of Red-legged Partridge, a Buzzard and a few other birds. We were in plenty of time arriving at the hotel so we came off the main road to Grantown on Spey and took a detour to Laggan. This was really just…
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Scotland Holiday Day 1: WWT Caerlaverock : 29th May 2016
Scotland Holiday Day 1: WWT Caerlaverock : 29th May 2016 On our way up to Dumfries we stopped off at WWT Caerlaverock. It was a lovely day but there wasn’t anything special on show just a smattering of ducks and hedgerow birds. We took the path down to the Avenue Tower and diverted, halfway down, on to the “Summer Walk” that leads through meadows down…
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Upper Goyt Valley & Dane Bower Quarry : 20th May 2016
Upper Goyt Valley & Dane Bower Quarry : 20th May 2016 We are due to go to Scotland at the same time as the birding group has scheduled Upper Goyt Valley so we will miss it. We decided to go there, a little earlier than usual) in the hope of seeing the usual species we like to think we will see there; Spotted and Pied…
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Summary of East Anglia Holiday
Summary of East Anglia Holiday Our holiday was to be roughly as follows; a travel day with an overnight stop at Peterborough Ferry Meadows Premier Inn. with a visit to Rutland Water reserve en route. The next day we headed for Halesworth in Suffolk where we stayed at Poachers Cottage, a place we had found online. We hired a cottage in this location so we…
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Hambleton Woods : 14th May 2016
Hambleton Woods : 14th May 2016 After breakfast we fancied a bit of a walk and we had wanted to check out the nearby Hambleton Woods which is famous for its Nightingales. We really didn’t fancy our chances of hearing or seeing Nightingales as late in the morning as it was but it was a chance to find out where the paths were and so…
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