Scotland Visit Day 3 & 4 : Forvie & The Ythan Estuary : 10th September 2011 We has been to various bits of the Ythan estuary on previous visits to Aberdeen-shire but we wanted to go to the parts where we might have a chance of seeing waders. We were also interested in going to…
Scotland Visit Day 2 : Loch of the Lowes : 9th September 2011 We left Stirling on Friday with the intention of getting to Aberdeen by around 6pm. This gave us just enough time to drop in to the Loch of the Lowes Scottish Wildlife trust reserve on our way up. We didn’t have a…
Scotland Visit Day 1 : Lerrocks Farm : 8th September 2011 The main reason that we had decided to stay in Stirling was to attend the Red Kite feeding at Lerrocks Farm in Doune, Stirlingshire. We had gone to RSPB Inversnaid, on the banks of Loch Lomond, in the morning but we had to leave earlier…
Scotland Visit Day 1 : RSPB Inversnaid : 8th September 2011 We had the chance to visit family up north so we decided to make a bit of a break of it by staying at some birding places on the way there and back. We drove from Manchester to Stirling on 7th September. We had…
Visit To Musselburgh Links : 17 Jul 2011 On the last day of our visit to Musselburgh we decided to try a site that we had tried to get at before but which was then fenced off. I discovered a map of this site in “Where to Watch Birds in Britain” (entry no 364) so…
Boat Trip To Isle of May and Bass Rock : 16 Jul 2011 We went up to Scotland in the middle of July to visit relatives but I was also aware that there was only another week or so to go before the Puffins would leave the islands in the Firth of Forth off the…
Boat Trip To Craigleith and Bass Rock : 15 Jul 2011 We went up to Scotland in the middle of July to visit relatives but I was also aware that there was only another week or so to go before the Puffins would leave the islands in the Firth of Forth off the east coast…
New Forest Holiday Day 4 : Ashley Walk : 29th June 2011 It was our last day in the New Forest so we decided to go for one last long walk over the heath. We settled on Ashley Walk / Pitts Wood. It was a hot day again and we did not really want to…
New Forest Holiday Day 3 : Keyhaven: 28th June 2011 On the afternoon of the third day of our New Forest Holiday we decided to head for the coast and go to Keyhaven near Lymington. We drove to the parking place at the end of Hurst Beach and then we walked the length of the…
New Forest Holiday Day 3 : Beaulieu Road / Shatterford Bottom : 28th June 2011 On the third day of our New Forest break we decided to return to Beaulieu Road / Shatterford Bottom that we had reccied on our first day. Again it was a very hot day and instead of walking into Denny…
