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  • Moore Nature Reserve : 5th June 2015

    Moore Nature Reserve : 5th June 2015 The weather forecast was good for a limited number of areas for the day and Moore Nature Reserve was one of them. My target birds were Yellowhammer and Grey Partridge. Unfortunately we saw neither but we had a nice long walk on a hot and humid morning where we still managed to get forty-one species of birds.

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  • Red-necked Phalarope at Burton Mere Wetlands : 2nd June 2015

    Red-necked Phalarope at Burton Mere Wetlands : 2nd June 2015 Our birding group day out today was supposed to be to either Neumann’s Flash or Brockholes. Since the weather forecast was poor we decided on a familiar fall-back – Burton Mere Wetlands. The weather forecast was a bit better here and although not entirely dry it wasn’t too bad; very windy though. We did get…

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  • Summary : May 2015

    Summary : May 2015 New Species added to 2015 Year List in May= 16 Running Total for the 2015 UK So Far = 128 New UK Life List Birds In March = 1 (Wood Warbler) Our Garden The Starlings have been coming to the bird feeders with their new young many times a day and food lasts mere seconds. A pair of Stock Doves comes…

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  • Birding Group Visit to Goyt Valley : 26th May 2015

    Birding Group Visit to Goyt Valley : 26th May 2015 Although I had been to the Goyt Valley the Thursday before, I was still keen to try again for the two species we would normally hope to see there that we did not get on Thursday; Tree Pipit and Redstart. Not only did we fill these missing gaps but we also got another three “year…

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  • Goyt Valley and Cat and Fiddle : 21 May 2015

    Goyt Valley and Cat and Fiddle : 21 May 2015 Tuesday outing for the birding group was scheduled for the Goyt Valley but was changed to Pennington because of poor weather. I was keen that this particular venue should not disappear off the schedule if the following Tuesday’s weather was also poor so we decided to go on the Thursday. The weather that day was…

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  • Birding Group Visit to Pennington Flash 19th May 2015

    Birding Group Visit to Pennington Flash 19th May 2015 We were scheduled to go to the Goyt Valley today but the weather forecast was so poor we decided to divert to Pennington Flash. There had been some rain overnight and the water level seemed a little high. The main attractions of the day were Common Terns and a Cetti’s Warbler but really that was about…

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  • Birding Group Visit to Macclesfield Forest : 12th May 2015

    Birding Group Visit to Macclesfield Forest : 12th May 2015 I looked up last years trip to Macclesfield Forest and it wasn’t that brilliant. This was a bit similar though it wasn’t as windy as then. The weather was a mixture of dry spells and rainy spells. We started out at the car park where I thought I saw a retreating Pied Flycatcher (first of…

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