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  • Great Northern Diver, Salford Quays. 9th January 2016

    Great Northern Diver, Salford Quays. 9th January 2016 With Christmas and New Year dominated by bad colds and illness, it was a pleasure to open the year’s birding campaign with a woderful bird; the easiest Great Northern Diver I’m ever likely to get.

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  • 2015 Annual Summary

    Summary 2015 UK Life Ticks During 2015 Laughing Gull Lesser Whitethroat Long-eared Owl Montagu’s Harrier Red-footed Falcon Sabine’s Gull Wood Warbler UK Bird List 2015 : 165 Species   Species Count Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica Bearded Tit Panurus biarmicus Bewick’s Swan Cygnus columbianus Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros Black Swan Cygnus atratus Blackbird Turdus merula Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus Black-necked…

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  • Summary December 2015

    Summary December 2015 Species this month = 53 New Species added to 2015 Year List in December= 0 Running Total for the 2015 UK So Far = 165 New UK Life List Birds In December= 0

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  • WWT Martin Mere : 8th December 2015

    WWT Martin Mere : 8th December 2015 The last birding group day of the term was to WWT Martin Mere where we hoped – in vain – to see either the Greenland White-fronted Geese or the Green-winged Teal that had been reported. We didn’t see either of these species but we had a nice enough day before the rain came hammering down. The most interesting…

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  • Marbury Country Park and Budworth Mere : 1st December 2015

    Marbury Country Park and Budworth Mere : 1st December 2015 The first December birding group date was in danger of being cancelled due to the bad weather but we did find one place with a fair forecast and that was Marbury Country Park and Budworth Mere. The day turned out to be quite pleasant and we had a couple of nice sightings in Kingfisher and…

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  • Summary November 2015

    Summary November 2015 Species this month = 72 New Species added to 2015 Year List in November= 2 (Red-breasted Merganser and Common Scoter) Running Total for the 2015 UK So Far = 165 New UK Life List Birds In November= 0

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  • High Tide at Hoylake, West Kirby and New Brighton : 27th November 1015

    High Tide at Hoylake, West Kirby and New Brighton : 27th November 1015 Hoylake The last high tide we are likely to get to before Christmas was on the 27th November and it was 9.8m at 11.45. S with the last time we went to Hoylake, the tide came in really quick. We were in reasonable time but it has to be said there weren’t…

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