Burton Mere Wetlands 19th January 2016 The second birding group outing of the term, and the year, was to RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands where I hoped to add a fair number of species to my 2016 year list. I wasn’t to be disappointed and, although we did not see the Long-eared Owl that has been…
Pennington Flash 12th January 2016 The first birding group morning of the new year was to Pennington Flash. The weather held out and although it was overcast at the outset, the sun eventually came out before the rain started again around mid-day. We managed to stay dry, though and had a great start to our…
WWT Martin Mere : 8th December 2015 The last birding group day of the term was to WWT Martin Mere where we hoped – in vain – to see either the Greenland White-fronted Geese or the Green-winged Teal that had been reported. We didn’t see either of these species but we had a nice enough…
Marbury Country Park and Budworth Mere : 1st December 2015 The first December birding group date was in danger of being cancelled due to the bad weather but we did find one place with a fair forecast and that was Marbury Country Park and Budworth Mere. The day turned out to be quite pleasant and…
Burton Mere Wetlands : 24th November 2015 The birding Group Tuesday on the 24th was to Burton Mere Wetlands. The weather was poor and there weren’t many birds around, particularly at Inner Marsh Farm, but we did get a nice field of mixed Fieldfare, Redwing, Mistle Thrush and Starlings in the sloping field on your…
Conwy and North Wales 10th November 2015 The birding group day out this week was to Llanfairfechan, Conwy and Llanddulas. The weather had been dreadful for several days so we were pushing our luck a bit going to north Wales. Still we gave it a go and we had to endure extrtemely strong winds at…
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…
