Day Out To Tatton Park : 3rd August 2011 We drove out to Tatton Park, parking in the usual place at the south side of Tatton Mere. We walked through the woods which were pretty quiet although we did see a Nuthatch and a Song Thrush as well as the more familiar suspects. On the…
Day Out To Upper Derwent Valley : 28th July 2011 The Upper Derwent Valley is an area of the Peak District National Park and within it are various sites including Ladybower Reservoir, Derwent Reservoir and Howden Reservoir and their associated dams. From the visitor centre (on weekdays only) you can drive all the way up…
Day Out to Leighton Moss RSPB : 6th July 2011 It had been a while since we were last at Leighton Moss and we hoped that although it was late on in the season that we stood a chance of seeing Bearded Tits or at least a good range of Warblers. We were to be…
Visit to Slimbridge WWT : 30th June 2011 From the New Forest we drove to Bristol on the 29th where we stayed overnight. This enabled us to break our return journey up into stages and in Bristol we caught up with an old friend of ours. Next morning we just had a short drive to…
Visit to Arlingham and Slimbridge Village : 22nd June 2011 We were scheduled to attend a wedding on the 24th June at Montacute in Somerset so we decided to break up our journey by stopping off at Slimbridge in Gloucestershire. On our way there we took a bit of a detour to look at a…
Birding Group Visit to Rixton Clay Pits : 21st June 2011 This week’s birding group visit was to Rixton Clay Pits, a former clay extraction point now turned over to angling and parts of it are a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The general feel of the area is scrubland / woodland with a big…
Day Out To RSPB Lake Vyrnwy Nature Reserve : 16 June 2011 We had stayed the previous night at a hotel in LLongollen because we had been on the Nightjar walk in the Coed LLandegla Forest until midnight so we didn’t want to travel back to Manchester late at night. This meant we had a…
Day Out To RSPB Coed Llandegla Forest : 15 June 2011 We had heard about the RSPB walks at this forest when we were at RSPB Conwy where they had a leaflet about various attractions under the moniker “A date with nature”. Two of these attractions took place at the Coed Llandegla Forest near Llangollen…
Birding Group Visit to Neumann’s Flash : 7th June 2011 The weather held up for our birding group visit to Neumann’s Flash (part of the Northwich Woodland Area) and rained just a little towards lunchtime. As soon as we parked up we saw a Kestrel high in the sky. As we waited for the others…
Day Out To WWT Martin Mere : 6th June 2011 A good day out at Martin Mere. We started off by going straight down to hide H3 – the Ron Barker Hide where we saw a lot of the usual suspects. Particular birds of interest we saw were a single Whooper Swan. This was a…
