The New Inn at Wincheslea 25th June 2015 After we left Rye Harbour we went to our hotel for the next couple of days, the New Inn at Winchelsea where we had a nice room overlooking the graveyard in which Spike Milligan is buried and the church of which has magnificent Arts and Crafts stained…
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve : 25th June 2015 After our visit to the Stodmarsh NNR, Sandwich and Deal we finished up at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. The whole reserve is quite big so we concentrated more on the part that borders the sea and takes in the Ternary Pool which was our principle interest with…
Stodmarsh NNR : 25th June 2015 On the morning of the 25th June we set out from Canterbury to Winchelsea with a planned stop off en route atthe Natural England Stodmarsh Nature Reserve. This was another well reviewed birding site and we were not to be disappointed with a good range of birds and some…
Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory : 24th June 2015 From Blean Woods we drove towards Winchesea stopping to do some tourist things at Whitstable (Oysters for lunch) and Herne Bay (Ice Cream on the prom), the latter of which did not seem to think that summer had started and was something of a ghost prom/pier. Of…
RSPB Blean Woods : 24th June 2015 After our party we had three days in Canterbury We did the usual tourist things but also went to RSPB Blean Woods. which had been recommended to us for good birding. We parked at 51.294456, 1.042020 and took one of the longer circular routes around the woods. Although…
Studley Green Red Kites : 20th June 2015 We started our holiday in the south of England with a visit to friend’s wedding anniversary party in Maidenhead. As we drove down the M40 near to Maidenhead the usual Buzzards gave way to the local specialty – Red Kites. Not only are they the dominant large…
Mallorca Holiday April – May 2015 Summary Guide Books The two books I relied on were, firstly, Dave Gosney’s book ““Finding Birds in Mallorca” (which comes with a DVD of the sites in the book and some of the birds you can see at them and, secondly, “A Birding Tourist’s Guide to Majorca” by Maties…
Mallorca Holiday 6th May 2015 : Port de Pollenca and Boquer Valley
Mallorca Holiday 5th May 2015 : Formentor Beach After a pretty busy day yesterday we decided not to do too much birding today so we got the bus to Formentor Beach with the idea of just having a bit of a walk around the area of the beach in the pine trees just in case…
Mallorca Holiday 4th May 2015 : S’Albefura I was keen to fit in at least one more visit to S’Albufera before the end of our holiday and this time Anne came with me. She was keen to see the species that she had missed when I last spent the day at S’Albufera. We didn’t spend…
