Wigan Flashes 16th November 2021
The second birding trip of the month was to Wigan Flashes which was fairly quiet except for a year tick of Goldeneye.
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Sandbach Flashes 2nd November 2021
With the birding group active again, we were able to meet up a few times in November and return to more regular birding.The first outing of the month was to Sandbach Flashes which were almost completely under water – even the path down to the farm was under water all the way to the main…
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Burton Mere Wetlands 12th October 2021
The birding group has been coming out of Covid hibernation and we have started our outings again. The only one we could join in with in October was this trip to Burton MEre Wetlands. It wasn’t a trip with huge numbers of species but we still managed to get fouryear ticks in the shape of…
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Birding Group : Burton Mere Wetlands : 3rd June 2021
The second birding group outing since resuming our trips after 2nd wave Covid was to Burton Mere Wetlands. The hides were open again but you still have to wear a mask and ones bins and scopes steam up straight away so not much fun and hard to bear for long. Anyway, we decided to head…
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Birding Group – Goyt Valley and Danebank Quarry 27th May 2021
The birding group reformed for its first outing since the Covid outbreak with a visit to the Upper Goyt Valley and Danebank Quarry. We had actually done this visit on our own on the 6th of May and had had some success with sightings of Redstart and lots of Pied Flycatchers. We saw neither of…
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Birding Group High Tide Burton Mere Wetlands and Parkgate 10th March 2020
Another Tuesday of mixed weather (and perhaps the coronavirus) led most of the birding group to stay at home and only two of us went up to the Wirral for a high tide of 10 metres at 11:30am. As it happened, the weather wasn’t that bad overall and it was worth the trip for one…
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High Tide on the Wirral 11th February 2020
With poor weather expected, the high tide of 10 metres at 12:35pm, on the Wirral, posed problems for most of the birding group and only two of us dared the predicted high winds. Ironically, we often say that a high tide is disappointing because there was not enough wind blowing the water towards land to…
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Birding Group Pennington Flash 7th January 2020
The first birding group outing of 2020 was to Pennington Flash. I wasn’t able to walk around the whole of the route due to my muscle injury but we still managed to get a decent number of birds but nothing particularly special. A nice day to get out and about though and Pennington was very…
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Birding Group Burton Mere Wetlands 10th December 2019
The last birding group outing before Christmas was to Burton Mere Wetlands. Because of my leg injury I couldn’t get far around the reserve but I had a pleasant enough couple of hours around the reception hide getting the usual birds and a surprise Merlin. After that we repaired to the Wheatsheaf at Neston for…
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Birding Group Visit to RSPB Leighton Moss – 5th November 2019
The first birding group outing of November was to RSPB Leighton Moss. As, ever, at this time of year, we were hoping for sightings of Bearded Tits and some of our group got good views of them from the grit trays. Unfortunately it did not cross anyones mind to call the others of the group…