Our scheduled birding group visit to Parkgate on the 17th February for a “high” tide of 9.1 metres at 10:58 am wasn’t very well attended with Anne and I and Richard the only people going there.
The highlight of the month, and perhaps the year, was a visit to Leosowe Lighthouse on the 13th November 2025. We got a life tick and two year ticks on a dry, windless sunny day at the Leosowe horse paddocks and on the promenade there.
We had to go down to Bristol for the funeral of a friend so, to buck ourselves up a bit and to break up the return journey we stopped of at Slimbridge for an overnight stay that allowed us to get an afternoon visit one day and a morning visit the next day.
The first birding group outing of October was to RSPB Leighton Moss and, in a break from tradition, it was on a Thursday. This was chosen over the usual Tuesday was because the high tide would be at 1:15pm rather than 11:15am which would fit it better with us because we normally want to spend the fist couple of hours at the main reserve looking for Bearded Tits before going down to the sea hides.
We decided to have a couple of days away in North Wales just for a change of scenery. It obviously wasn’t going to be the best time of year for birding, but we thought we would give it a shot anyway. We hadn’t managed to get to South Stack on Anglesey yet this year, so…
We had been on holiday in Spain for a couple of weeks at the start of June, so it was the 24th June before we rejoined the birding group when we had a morning out to Burton Mere Wetlands. I say the birding group but there were only four of us! Be that as it…
The last reasonable high tide of the year was on 16th and 17th December. We decided to go on Monday 16th to see if we could get any birds we had not got already this year and weren’t disappointed.
After a lapse in membership, we renewed our subscription to the WWT in order to go to WWT Martin Mere. Would our investment pay off? It did, indeed, with some excellent sightings and a couple of year ticks
A relatively quiet morning out at Pennington Flash with an unusual sighting of a Great Egret there
There were two high tides on the Wirral this month – 22nd August (13.48hrs 9.7m) and 23 Aug (14.30hrs 9.7m). We opted to go on the first day despite there being some weather warnings. As it happened it stayed dry but there were strong winds. We started of fat Meols before dropping down to Hoylake where we sheltered from the wind by the lifeboat station
