Pennington Flash Birding Group Visit : 22nd November 2016 THe birding group visit this week was to Pennington Flash (because of the weather). It turned out to be a fine day and we did get one of our two target birds. We didn’t see the female Scaup, which had presumably flown, but we did manage…
Riverbank Road, Neston Old Quay and Burton : 15th November 2016 A high tide of 10.1 metres at 11:10am took us to the Wirral again on a birding group morning out. We started out at Riverbank Road which was moderately busy but we managed to get a parking place facing on to the marsh. As…
WWT Martin Mere : 13th November 2016 The annual North West Bird Fair was held at Martin Mere on the 12th and 13th of November. I knew that John Poyner, my guide when I am birding in the highlands, would be there representing the Bird Watching and Wildlife Club based at the Grant Arms Hotel…
High Tide on The Wirral : 1st November 2016 A high-ish tide on the Wirral took the birding group up there for the first session of November. At 9.2m at 11.48am it wasn’t ever going to be a great high tide but we thought it would be good enough for Hoylake and then we thought…
Birding Group Visit to Sandbach Flashes : 25th October 2016 This weeks birding group visit to Sandbach Flashes was pleasant enough on a relatively mild autumn morning. Unfortunately there weren’t many birds around and it was probably one of the least productive visits to this site we have had. Oh well, it was a nice…
Birding Group Visit to Leighton Moss : 11th October 2016 At this time of year the birding group likes to go to Leighton Moss as it is at this time of year that the resident Bearded Tits turn from insect eaters into seed eaters. This change necessitates the ingestion of grit to aid in the…
Birding Group : Burton Mere Wetlands : 4th October 2016 The second birding group outing f the sutumn term was to Burton Mere Wetlands. The best birds were again the Black Swans and Little Stints, the latter both from the reception hide and Inner Marsh Farm. As with our previous visit a few days before…
High Tide at Hoylake, Riverbank Road and Burton Mere Wetlands : 1st October 2016 The weekend of the 1st and 2nd of October was “Wirral Wader Festival” with lots of events at Thurstaston, Hoylake and Red Rocks etc. With a “low” high tide, only 9.2 metres, at 12.30pm we thought that Hoylake was probably the…
Birding Group : Pennington Flash : 27th September 2016 The first day of the birding group’s autumn season started with a visit to Pennington Flashes on quite a pleasant morning – eventually. There had been very large numbers of Coots here recently but most of those seem to have moved on. There was a reasonble…
Connah’s Quay and Burton Mere Wetlands 8th September 2016 A weather forecast indicating poor weather getting better by mid-morning saw us set off for a visit to Connah’s Quay, a reserve we have not been to in a while, and Burton Mere Wetlands. It is getting to the time when we can expect to see…
