Snow Buntings and Hawfiches North Wales : 7 February 2017
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Chorlton Water Park and Kenworthy Woods : 3 February 2017
A break in the wet weather gave us a chance to get out to Chorlton Water Park and Kenworthy Woods. It has been a long time since we hace gone over there, preferring to go further afield for less common birds. It was well overdue for us to visit the water park so we drove…
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Pennington Flash : 31 January 2017
The fist birding group date we could make in January was to Pennington Flash on the last day of the month. It started off a little wet but soon dried up. It wasn’t even all that windy ! The main attractions were the possibility of seeing the Long-tailed Duck we had seen last year…
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White Storks at Lagos : 17th January 2017
The sad loss of a very good friend took us to Portugal for her funeral. We were in Lagos between 15th – 19th January. The unhappiness of the occasion was soothed a little by the odd couple of hours birding that I managed to fit it. It was a bit of relief from the intense…
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Red-crested Pochard and Smew at Newchurch Common 11th January 2017
An expected dry day before some very stormy weather was an opportunity to add to my 2017 year list with the reports of a drake Red-crested Pochard and a redhead Smew at Newchurch Common. As before, we parked at the end of Novscotia Lane and walked down the track rather grandiosely named Overdale Lane.
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North Wales Trip Waxwing, Snow Bunting and Hawfinch: 3 – 4 January 2017
With Christmas and New Year over we decided to take advantage of some dry weather to get out to North Wales to see if we could get our year list off to a good start. Last year we both had colds so we got off to a slow start. Not this year!
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Wales Day Out : Species Nos 197 – 200 : 30th December 2016
Wales Day Out : Species Nos 197 – 200 : 30th December 2016 Last week I happened to mention to Merynn that I was on 197 species in the UK for the year and that I would really like to get three more to get to the 200 mark by the end of the year….
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Wales Break : Waxwings and Winter Thrushes : 14 – 16 December 2016
Wales Break : Waxwings and Winter Thrushes : 14 – 16 December 2016
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Woolston Eyes 10th December 2016
Woolston Eyes 10th December 2016 We tried Woolston Eyes despite it being a Saturday. We were hoping to see the Green-winged Teal that had been seen there on a daily basis.
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Birding Group Visit to WWT Martin Mere
Birding Group Visit to WWT Martin Mere The last birding group day of the year was a visit to WWT Martin Mere which turned out to be a little disappointing but at least featured a glimpse of the Tawny Owl that sometimes roosts near the Kingfisher Hide.
