Our visit to Macclesfield Forest was notable mainly for it being a gloriously sunny day. As son as we set off up the hill from the car park we heard the yaffling of a Green Woodpecker, though didn’t manage to see it. There were surprisingly few birds in the woods though we got the commoner…
We moved on from Somerset to visit friends at Bristol. This gave us the chance to visit WWT Steart Marshes, though it turned out to be a freezing day and quite wet.It was raining when we arrived at the car park so we drove further up the road to the other small car park at…
We travelled from Oxfordshire to Somerset to visit friends and this gave us a whole day to check out both RSPB Ham Wall and also the neighbouring Shapwick Heath. It was a lot colder than we expected and it felt more like a winter day than a spring day. Be that as it may, we…
The first day on the new birding group “term” saw us go to Neumann’s Flash on a day that threatened rain but we managed to “duck” it nicely. Although there weren’t impressive numbers of birds, we got some nice spring arrivals including my first Sand AMrtin of the year.
After a sunny day we were hopeful of a another one the following day when we decided to go up to the Wirral and visit some of the sites we rarely visit. Thes first stop was Leosowe Lighthouse but it was so windy and there tide was so far out that we soon abandoned that…
We got finished with the birding group quite early this day so we decided to go for just an hour to Pennington so we only took in Horrocks Hide , Pengy’s and the Bunting Hide. It was half-term so the place was heaving and we didn’t stay long. But we did get some birds while…
The birding group visit this week was to Wigan Flashes, somewhere where I haven’t been since April 2016 Again, it was a rare dry February day so we were glad to get out. It would be fair to say that we saw nothing particularly special but in the lovely sunlight there were really nice groups…
