The 29th had been a travel day from Mundford to Halesworth. On that day we stayed with our friends who lived nearby but on the 30th we had the whole day to ourselves before meeting up with them again in the evening for a meal at at The Angel Hotel where we stayed that night….
The 27th April saw us visit an ununsual combination of reserves – unusual because all three were run by different ornithological conservation groups, the Norfolk Wildlife Trust reserve at Weeting Heath, the RSPB reserve at nearby Lakenheath Fen and also the only reserve run by the British Trust for Ornithology, Nunnery Lakes. The weather was…
Bird Sightings Leosowe Lighthouse 15th April 2019 We had a solo day out on the Wirral on the 15th, starting out looking for migrants at Leosowe Lighthouse. Unfortunately the wind was so strong that all the dust was blowing up from the car park and made hard work of my contact lenses. We tried to…
We only had four of us for the birding group visit to RSPB Leighton Moss on 9th April 2019 but we had a most fantastic day with good weather and lots of birds including a number of year ticks and a life tick as well.
The first birding group outing of the month was to Brockholes near Preston, a site we have not been to in quite a while. It was still abit early in the year so we were not sure quite what we would find there. What we did find included some late-staying Fieldfares and the first Sand…
Our last birding outing of the month was a solo affair and again featured Burton Mere Wetlands. We were rather hoping that we could see the Long-tailed Duck that has been there. Also we wanted to check out the walk from Denhall Lane, past Net’s Cafe and on to the Denhall Quay and The Harp…
The last birding group day of the month was supposed to be to Brockholes but it turned out not to be open yet, according to one of our group, so we opted for Pennington Flash again. It was a nice enough day but windy in every hide. Nothing special was seen.
I missed the birding group visit to Neumann’s Flash on the 12th March due to bad weather but I did manage to get to the one on the 19th to Flint. Unfortunately there wasn’t a lot there and we had to wait a couple of hours for the tide to recede and a few, common,…
The first birding group outing of March was to Marshside and it was windy as ever and only moderately interesting. We had dome by about noon so we decided to go to Martin Mere which was a bit more interesting and gave us a good range of species even though there was nothing especially exciting….
We had a nice morning out on a beautiful sunny day – unbelievable for February but we have had a few recently. We had a year tick Green Sandpiper and Tree Sparrow and Common Snipe were more regular ticks, but still first for the year. A nice group of male and female Goosanders were colourful…
