Due to issues concerning the correct dates for high tides, the original schedule for this session has changed to the following : New Birding Group Schedule Date Venue Jan 17th Tatton Park Jan 24th Redesmere Jan 31st Martin Mere and Meresands Wood day trip Feb 7th Neumann’s Flash Feb 16th Hilbre Island (weather permitting) Feb…
Birding Group Visit to Pennington Flash 10th January 2012 This was the first day of the new birding group term and it started with a regular of the group – Pennington Flash. Unusually for the time of year, the weather was really quite mild and even the usual wind tunnel effect in “Horrock’s hide” was…
Bird Group Meeting at Dunham Massey Park 6 Dec 2011 On 6th December we all met up at Dunham Massey but the weather was pretty poor so we only went for a short walk after lunch there. The lunch was the birding group’s end of term meeting to plan for the next term where a…
Birding Group Day Out to Sandbach Flashes 29th November 2011 I hadn’t been to Sandbach Flashes before so I looked it up in “Where to Watch Birds : North West England & the Isle of Man” by A. Conlin et al. This describes Sandbach Flashes as “a series of 15 or so shallow pools formed…
Birding Group Day Out to Neumann’s Flash & Haydyn’s Pool 22nd November 2011 The birding group were a little bit concerned that the visit to Neumann’s Flash and Haydyn’s Pool wouldn’t be very fruitful because of the lack of rain recently but, as it happened, the pools were quite full. In truth there wasn’t that…
Birding Group Day Out to Burton Mere Wetlands RSPB 31st October 2011 This was the first time we had been to this particular part of the site. Previously the site had been called Inner Marsh Farm and had a small entrance “hut” and a small car park. You could walk through woodlands and then between…
Birding Group Day Out to Leighton Moss RSPB 18th October 2011 Although the day started out pretty wet and looking a bit grim, by the time we got to Leighton Moss RSPB the day had picked up a little and although it remained very variable, the weather managed to keep dry whilst we were there….
Birding Group Day Out to Pennington Flash 11th October 2011 We were supposed to go to Wigan Flashes this day but the weather was so poor that it was decided that we should go to Pennington Flash again just because it has enough hides to provide pretty continuous cover if needed and needed it was…
Birding Group Day Out to Marbury Country Park 4th October 2011 We were hoping that today’s birding group visit to Marbury Country Park would be a chance to catch up with those birds who had seemed to be lying low of recent weeks but we walked through the woods at Marbury with hardly a sight…
Schedule for Birding Group Mornings ; September to December 2011 27 Sept : Pennington 04 Oct : Marbury 11 Oct : Wigan Flashes 18 Oct : Leighton Moss rspb (day trip) 25 Oct : school half term (?) – local trip tbc 01 Nov : Inner Marsh Farm rspb 08 Nov : Moore 15 Nov …
