Frodsham Marsh : 3rd November 2015 We were due to have a birding group visit to Frodsham Marsh this Tuesday but there had been a lot of bad fog for a couple of days so most people called off. David Poole seemed to think it would be bad on the motorway and foggy on the…
Hoylake : 29th September 2015 The last birding group day out of the month and, in fact, our last birding day out of September, was to Hoylake for an 11 metre high tide at 12.30pm. The weather was so good, however, that there was a bit of a shortage of birds. It was a lovely…
Hilbre Island : 22nd September 2015 The second birding group day out of the new was to Hilbre Island where I had not been for quite some time; I think we must have been on holiday last year when the group went there. The whole thing is about a four mile round trip over the…
Birding Group Visit to Bempton Cliffs : 16th June 2015 We all left the Travelodge at South Cave at 8am and then stopped off at the Ferguson Fawsitt Arms a few miles down the road at Walkington where we had arranged that we could all stop off and partake of their cooked breakfast at £7.50…
Birding Group Visit to North Cave : 15th June 2015 We left Blacktoft Sands around 2pm and drove back up to the motorway and then across the other side of the River Ouse to the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust reserve at North Cave. Here we were pleased to find that the site was full of wildlife…
Birding Group Visit to Blacktoft Sands : 15th June 2015 Our birding group outing this week was a two-day event taking in Blacktoft Sands, North Cave and Bempton Cliffs. On the first day we went to Blacktoft and North Cave. The drive was about two and a quarter hours so we arrived at Blacktoft Sands…
Birding Group Visit to WWT Martin Mere : 9th June 2015 Our birding group visit to Martin Mere perhaps disappointed some people because the sheer numbers that you see there in winter were not present. However, I think it is a bit much to complain when you see some over-summering Pink-footed Geese and Whooper Swans…
Red-necked Phalarope at Burton Mere Wetlands : 2nd June 2015 Our birding group day out today was supposed to be to either Neumann’s Flash or Brockholes. Since the weather forecast was poor we decided on a familiar fall-back – Burton Mere Wetlands. The weather forecast was a bit better here and although not entirely dry…
Birding Group Visit to Goyt Valley : 26th May 2015 Although I had been to the Goyt Valley the Thursday before, I was still keen to try again for the two species we would normally hope to see there that we did not get on Thursday; Tree Pipit and Redstart. Not only did we fill…
Burton Mere Wetlands and Parkgate : 21 April 2015 We missed the first birding group outing of this term as a result of heavy colds and building work on the house so we were particularly pleased to eventually get out of the house and into the country. We had missed the birding group visit to…
