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…
Birding Group Visit to Point of Ayr : 1st April 2014 The first birding group day of the month was to Point of Ayr where there was to be a 9.9 metre high tide at 12.45pm. We estimated that we would need to be at the hide approximately two hours before and as we all…
Birding Group Visit to Pennington Flash : 25th March 2014 On another wet Tuesday the birding group’s planned visit to Frosdsham Marsh was rescheduled and we went – again – to Pennington Flash. The highlights were my first Sand Martins of the year, good numbers of Goosander and, although we did not manage to see…
Birding Group Visit to Marshside and Mere Sands Woods : 18th March 2014 The birding group visit to Marshside was hopefully going to be a chance to get a year-tick on the first winter drake Long-tailed Duck although I am pretty sure that the Ross’s Goose has already gone. Additionally, it is usually a good…
Birding Group Visit to Moore Nature Reserve : 11th March 2014 At this time of year Moore is well known for its Lesser Spotted Woodpecker/s and it is also good for Great Spotted Woodpeckers and Green Woodpeckers so a big hope of mine was to get the holy grail of the hat-trick of all three…
Birding Group Visit to Burton Mere Wetlands and Parkgate : 4th March 2014 The first birding group trip of the month was to Burton Mere Wetlands and Parkgate. This was perhaps a little bit of bad timing because I had already been there two days before but that was just the way it panned out….
Birding Group Visit to Carsington Water : 25th February 2014 Carsington Water was a first for me although the birding group have been there before. On the down side, although the distance isn’t too great, the roads are so slow that it took us two hours to get there. As it happens it was well…
Birding Group Visit to Marbury Park : 18th February 2014 We missed the previous weeks birding group visit which was supposed to be to Neumann’s Flash but I believe the weather and a few other cancellations led to the few remaining people able to go, calling it off after sitting in a car for fifteen…
