Birding Group Visit to RSPB South Stack : 11th June 2014 We stayed overnight on the 10th at the Seacroft Hotel in Trearddur Bay. Some of the group stayed at the Travelodge in Holyhead but we all met up on the evening of the 10th for a meal. We had a nice evening and retired…
Birding Group Visit to RSPB Conwy, The Spinnies and Cemlyn Bay : 10th June 2014 On the 10th June the birding group set off on day 1 of the two day outing to Anglesey. We met up at RSPB Conwy and had a quick cup of tea before going round the site. It was a…
Scotland Birding Trip Summary May 2014 Our birding trip to Scotland took in visits to Loch of the Lowes and Loch Garten as well as the fours days birding in and around Grantown-on-Spey and visits after that to the Ythan Estuary at Newburgh and RSPB Fowlsheugh. In total we saw 113 bird species and added…
Scotland Trip Day 5 : Ythan Estuary : 31st May 2014 The other couple that were in our group of birders at Grantown-on-Spey mentioned to us that they had just seen a King Eider on the Ythan Estuary at Newburgh the day before they arrived in Grantown. We had been to the Ythan Estuary before…
Scotland Trip Day 5 : Avie Lochan, Strathdearn, Lochindorb, Loch Allan : 30th May 2014 When we booked our three-day guided birding tour with John Poyner we reserved an additional day at the hotel so that we could re-visit some of our favourite places on our own and spend as much time at each location…
Scotland Trip Day 4 : The Moray Coast : 29th May 2014 We started our last day of guided birding with yet another attempt to see Crested Tits. After that we were to go off to the Moray coast to visit all the small bays and harbours up there including Spey Bay, Lossiemouth, Burghead and…
Scotland Trip Day 3 : Mountain, Valley and Coast : 28th May 2014 For our second day of guided birding John decided that we would do some birding around the forest near Loch Garten and then see what the weather was going to be like later in the morning with a view to a possible…
Scotland Trip Day 2 : Grantown on Spey Environs : 27th May 2014 We met for breakfast and the decision based on the weather was that we would spend our first day in the area that surrounds Grantown-on-Spey, an area that includes forest, rivers, glens and grouse moors. We loaded up the minibus and headed…
Scotland Trip Day 1 : Loch Garten : 26th May 2014 We left Loch of the Lowes and headed off for Grantown on Spey. As we drove up there we saw a Hooded Crow and lots of House Martins – seemingly at every house we came across, suddenly there were Martins. There were also plenty…
Ring Ouzels at Cat and Fiddle 20th May 2014 After our morning at Goyt Valley with the birding group our small select group of “lunchers” stopped off for some lunch at the Cat and Fiddle – it only had one beer on pump and one in bottle. The pump beer was a blonde beer called…
