Birding Group Visit to Moore Nature Reserve : 17th June 2014 We started out at the car park then walked uphill to the hide that overlooks Lapwing Lake. On the lake were a Little Grebe, Coots, Mute Swans and a small Mallard family. A Cormorant flew overhead. Reed and Sedge Warblers could also be heard….
Birding Group Visit to RSPB South Stack : 11th June 2014 We stayed overnight on the 10th at the Seacroft Hotel in Trearddur Bay. Some of the group stayed at the Travelodge in Holyhead but we all met up on the evening of the 10th for a meal. We had a nice evening and retired…
Birding Group Visit to RSPB Conwy, The Spinnies and Cemlyn Bay : 10th June 2014 On the 10th June the birding group set off on day 1 of the two day outing to Anglesey. We met up at RSPB Conwy and had a quick cup of tea before going round the site. It was a…
Ring Ouzels at Cat and Fiddle 20th May 2014 After our morning at Goyt Valley with the birding group our small select group of “lunchers” stopped off for some lunch at the Cat and Fiddle – it only had one beer on pump and one in bottle. The pump beer was a blonde beer called…
Birding Group Visit to the Upper Goyt Valley 20th May 2014 We had been to Macclesfield Forest, which is quite close by, two weeks previously and not seen a great deal. This visit to the area was an entirely different kettle of fish. We parked up at the second car park near the southern end…
Birding Group Visit to RSPB Conwy and the Conwy Estuary 13th May 2014 The birding group visit to RSPB Conwy was a little lacking in spectacle, unless you are into Sedge Warblers in which case this was thest place in the world to be. The entire site seemed to be full of Sedge Warblers flying…
Birding Group Visit to Macclesfield Forest 6th May 2014 The first birding group morning of the month was to Macclesfield Forest and we had hopes for Flycatchers and Redstarts. We were rather disappointed in this and generally speaking it was a bit of a flop – except that it was a nice day for a…
Birding Group Visit to Burton Mere Wetlands / Inner Marsh Farm : 22nd April 2014 This morning visit to BMW and INF was our first chance to see the improvements made at the site and opened to the public the previous Friday. As we approached the site we were amazed to find that the…
Provisional Bird Group Venues for Spring Term 2014 The last day of the birding group “term” was at Marbury where it was decided that because Easter had been so early this year, that there wasn’t any point in having a break between “terms” so it was decided to start of the “new term” the following…
Birding Group Visit to Wigan Flashes : 8th April 2014 We parked by the school as usual and walked down the path towards the bird feeding station by the reed beds which seems to have been abandoned and as a result there were no birds to be seen there. We continued on to the bridge…
