Visit to Hoylake and Parkgate for High Tide : 5th December 2013 We had high hopes for a visit to Hoylake and Parkgate for a 9.9 metre high tide (12.24pm at Liverpool) that wasn’t really a birding group date but several of the group had planned to go there. Unfortunately the combination of low pressure,…
Birding Group Visit to Burton Mere Wetlands / Inner Marsh Farm: 2nd December 2013 For various reasons the birding group visit this week was moved to Monday rather than Tuesday and was at Burton Mere Wetlands on a cloudy and overcast – but dry – day. The rumoured Golden Plover and Little Stint refused to…
Birding Group Visit to Frodsham Marsh : 26th November 2013 We were driving up the lane leading to the parking place at Frodsham and as we drove along a Kestrel flew parallel to the car for a while giving us really close views. As it peeled off and flew into the distance we started to…
Birding Group Visit to WWT Martin Mere 19th November 2013 With the weather forecast indicating rain and possible snow, we were lucky that our birding group day landed just before the start of a spell of cold and wet weather. In fact, after a little bit of defrosting of the car, we had a fine…
Birding Group Visit to Sandbach Flashes 12th November 2013 We had a lovely morning for the birding group visit to Sandbach Flashes. As usual we had a quick look at Pump House Flash which was pretty full of water. There were large numbers of Great Black-backed Gulls and Black-headed Gulls as well as Coots. There…
Birding Group Visit to Parkgate and Hoylake 5th November 2013 We have been to Parkgate a few times now, usually for the high tides, and this was our reason again today. Often we go for the Spring high tides but this was rather different. It was a 9.8 metre tide, which we have had before…
Birding Group Visit to Burton Mere Wetlands 5th November 2013 The first Birding group visit of the month was to Burton Mere Wetlands on a very windy – but largely dry – day. It as due to be a high tide so we thought we would either linger at Burton Mere Wetlands or go on…
Birding Group Visit to RSPB Leighton Moss : 22nd October 2013 Despite a poor weather forecast the birding group decided to stick with the scheduled visit to RSPB Leighton Moss and it turned out to be a good decision because the weather largely held up and we got at least one notable sighting at one…
Neumann’s Flash and Haydn’s Pool : 15th October 2013 Although we had just got back from holiday in Scotland, I was still keen to go to the birding group visit to Neumann’s Flash and Haydn’s Pool. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost my notebook so have to recall the birds from memory. We took the…
Visit to Burton Mere Wetlands and Inner Marsh Farm 26th September 2013 After a bit of a disappointing visit to Pennington Flash with the birding group a couple of days before we thought it would be good to try Burton Mere Wetland. We had good weather and at the reception hide there were some Curlew…
