Visit to Woolston Eyes Nature Reserve : 12th September 2013 I had read on a sightings web site that someone had recorded a “? juvenile Sharp-tailed Sandpiper” which would have been a bit of a mega rarity but I was a bit sceptical about it and, as it happened, we ran into a chap who…
Brief Visit to Mere Sands Woods : 10th September 2013 We left WWT Martin Mere for a pub lunch and after that we dropped over to Mere Sands Woods but there wasn’t anything much around and the water levels were extremely low with hardly any from the hide at the back of the reception area….
Visit to WWT Martin Mere : 10th September 2013 Recent reports of the sighting of a Little Stint took us up to WWT Martin Mere to see if we could locate the bird. Unfortunately we didn’t see it but we did have a couple of nice sightings staring at the Ron Barker hide where we…
Curlew Sandpipers at RSPB Leighton Moss : 5th September 2013
Stilt Sandpiper : Sandbach Flashes : 4th September 2013 I had been looking at the Bird News Anywhere web site for any interesting birds near to us and had spotted the appearance of a Stint Sandpiper on Ashton Flash at Sandbach Flashes and since it had been spotted for a couple of days in a…
Visit to Hoylake for High Tide : 23rd August 2013 We left Burton Mere Wetlands with enough time to get up to Hoylake. As we arrived there were already a few birders on the prom and the birds were already quite a way in – indeed, much closer than they had been earlier in the…
Visit to Burton Mere Wetlands : 23rd August 2013 I discovered that there was to be a fairly high tide on the Wirral and fancied a trip to the prom at Hoylake to see what birds were to be found there as the tide came in. The tide was due to come in around noon…
Visit to Aston Rowant NNR, Oxfordshire : 20th August 2013
Visit to Filey Dams : 8th August 2013 On the morning of the 8th we had got up early and had a walk along Flamborough Cliffs before retuning to the Bempton Cliffs but since we were in the area there was one last place we wanted to visit and that was the one recommended to…
Visit to RSPB Bempton Cliffs : 8th August 2013 On the morning of the 8th we got up early and had a walk along Flamborough Cliffs before retuning to the RSPB site at Bempton Cliffs where I meant to take my 500mm lens and leave my scope behind. It was far too hot to carry…
