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
It had been a while since we were last at Burton Mere Wetlands so we were glad to get back to some decent birding. Our reward wasn’t to see any new species but we did see some nice birds and a pair of birds we had only ever seen singly.
We had a full house of around 13 people for our morning visit to Macclesfield Forest. It was a nice, sunny day but with a bit of a wind. We started out looking for Garden Warblers in the lower part of the uphill track but I don’t think anone actually saw one. As we continued…
There were only two cars of people for the birding group visit to Pennington Flash. We had to park on the main road as the car park was closed for electrical work that was being done at the bridge on the way down to the car park. We imagined it might be to connect the…
We had a birding group visit to the Wirral scheduled for the high tide on the 9th April but with a storm developing overnight and in full force during the day, most of the group decided to stay at home. Anne and I and three others in a car from Didsbury braved the weather, though,…
We had missed a few birding group sessions through illness and holiday and we only managed to get back in synch for the very last morning of the “term” which was a trek around Marbury Park followed by a planning lnch at the Spinner and Bergemot pub. It was a pretty routine visit with the…
