Visit to Rutland Water Nature Reserve 28th March 2013 After we left Lakenheath Fen we drove up to the Midlands where we stayed at the Barnsdale Lodge Hotel, a very comfortable hotel that we had stayed at previously. It is a bit pricey normally but they do good offers for some dates and we took…
Visit to Halesworth 26th March 2013 After we left Minsmere on the 25th we went on to visit friends in Halesworth where we had dinner and caught up on things. They had been promising me that they had a Barn Owl in the field behind them that I could not fail to see if we…
Birding in The Brecks Day 1 : 23rd March 2013 While we were getting work done on our house we thought that it would be a good idea to get away for a week when all that was left to do was the painting work which we felt could not really go wrong. As it…
Visit to WWT Welney 22nd March 2013 As a reward for enduring the renovation work on our house we took a few days off to do a bit of birding and a bit of visiting friends. Our initial plan was to do a two day birding tour of the Brecks but we stopped en route…
Birding Group Visit to Frodsham Marshes 19th March 2013 After missing a couple of weeks of the birding group, due to work being done on our house, we were glad to get back to our mornings out and it was a pleasant day and not too cold or windy. As usual Frodsham was very muddy…
Birding Group Visit to Brockholes Nature Reserve 26th February 2013 The last birding group outing for the month was to a new venue for us, Brockholes Nature Reserve which turned out to be a much larger site than we had imagined on the many occasions we had passed over it on the motorway. They have…
Birding Group Visit to Pennington Flash 19th February 2013 Our latest visit to Pennington Flash was unusually clement with hardly any wind and, although it was quite cold, there were plenty of birds around and it was a great day for birding. We started off in the car park and from here we saw Canada…
Day Out To Etherow Country Park 17th February 2013 We started out by walking up the path between the two lakes where there were the usual Canada Geese and Mallards were present with a smattering of domestic geese. On the right there were lots of Black-headed Gulls on the sailing pond. Unusually this far down…
Birding Group Visit to Point of Ayr 12th February 2013 We planned this visit to coincide with a high tide (10 metres) and we thought that if we arrived at the viewing site by an hour bebore this we would be well in position to observe the tide come in. Unfortunately , even before we…
Birding Group Day Out to RSPB Marshside and Mere Sands Woods 5th February 2013 Last week we deferred our visit to Marshide due to bad weather though surely it couldn’t have been much worse than we had this week with phenomenally strong winds and later on driving rain. It was all a bit severe but…
