Montrose Basin : 4th October 2013 Our annual visit to the family in Scotland saw us drop in on Montrose Basin Nature Reserve, a site we usually stop at for a break from driving and also because it can be really good for birds. Unfortunately we got there at high tide rather than a couple…
Visit to Aston Rowant NNR, Oxfordshire : 20th August 2013
Visit to Filey Dams : 8th August 2013 On the morning of the 8th we had got up early and had a walk along Flamborough Cliffs before retuning to the Bempton Cliffs but since we were in the area there was one last place we wanted to visit and that was the one recommended to…
Visit to RSPB Bempton Cliffs : 8th August 2013 On the morning of the 8th we got up early and had a walk along Flamborough Cliffs before retuning to the RSPB site at Bempton Cliffs where I meant to take my 500mm lens and leave my scope behind. It was far too hot to carry…
Visit to Flamborough Cliffs: 8th August 2013 We stayed at the North Star Hotel in Flamborough on the night of the 7th and rose early on the morning of the 8th for an early breakfast and an early (for us) walk along Flamborough Cliffs on an incredibly hot and sunny morning. In fact the temperatures…
Visit to Spurn Head : 7th August 2013 On the second day of our visit to Yorkshire we actually got to the coast and we started off by visiting the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust reserve at Spurn Head. Everyone has heard of Spurn Head so we were really looking forward to this trip. We drove down…
Visit to North Cave Wetlands : 6th August 2013 Our visit to the Yorkshire coast involved a bit of a stay over in Hull so that we could have enough tome to fit in visits to the RSPB site at Blacktoft Sands and the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust site North Cave Wetlands. This is a continuously…
Visit to Blacktoft Sands : 6th August 2013 We went to the Yorkshire coast at this time of year last year but this time we decided to add in a couple of new sites for us. The first of these was the RSPB site at Blacktoft Sands which has featured on our birding group schedule…
Some Bird Sightings : Azores 1st – 12th July 2013 Whilst we knew that the Azores is not a great place to for birding unless it is the migration season, we did manage to see a couple of birds apart from the ubiquitous Chaffinch, Blackbird and Spanish Sparrow. On our return from a boat trip…
Visit to WWT Slimbridge 30th April 2013 We had stopped off at Slimbridge to break up our journey back from Somerset to Manchester and again we stayed at the Tudor Arms Hotel in Slimbridge. This afforded us a chance to go to WWT Slimbridge once again before we had to go home. We started off…
