The first birding group outing of the year was to Burton Mere Wetlands where we got good views of a Peregrine attacking a large flock of Lapwing. We got a few Whooper Swans and some Snipe. The highlight, probably, was on the field on our way down to the barn. This field is usually empty…
On the 5th December the birding group headed up to the Wirral for a high tide of 9.9 metres at 11:55am. We started out with a quick stop at Burton Mere Wetlands where we just looked around the main scrape and walked down to the barn. On the walk we got Great Spotted Woodpecker but…
It had been quite a while since we were last at Neumann’s Flash and, although we did not see anything particularly out of the ordinary, it was a good morning with a varied species list including Peregrine Falcon, Kestrel and Buzzard as well as Bullfinch, Goldcrest and a good number of Redwing with singles of…
The first birding group visit of November (the previous weeks outing having been cancelled due to bad weather) was to WWT Martin Mere. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to see any Brambling, the single Great Scaup or the Greenland White-fronted Geese all of which had been reported as having been seen recently; neither did we meet…
The only birding group date of the month that we could make was the last one, to Sandbach Flashes. It was fairly quiet but we did get a view of a perched Peregrine on a pylon. some Buzzards, some Snipe and prodigous numbers of Wigeons.
The last birding group date of September was to Pennington Flash. It was a pleasant day but we didn’t see an awful lot. The highlights were a very nice – and relatively close – group of nine Common Scoter. This was possibly the closest view I have ever had of Common Scoter and the first…
The first birding group outing of the Autumn term was to the Wirrall for a – not very – high tide of 9.3 metres at 10:23am. Although it was very misty pretty much all the way, by the time we got to Hoylake it had turned out to be a beautiful, sunny and windless day…
On the second day of our two-day birding group outing, we headed from South Cave up to RSPB Bempton Cliffs. The weather had improved a bit and although it was blowing a gale, it didn’t rain. As ever, it was impsossibly busy but it did what it does – gives you good views of Gannets,…
The first birding group outing of June was an overnight visit to Yorkshire taking in RSPB Blacktoft Sands and North Cave on the 6th and RSPB Benpton Cliffs on the 7th. We mostly stayed overnight in the Travelodge at South Cave but a couple of the group stayed in nearby Beverley. The first day was…
