A fairly routine visit to Wigan Flashes with the usual suspects, the target bird often being Willow Tit which we found by going over the field to the path that leads t the burn where there is a little feeding table. Usually we would go through the gate to the main feeding station but that…
A cold sunny day took us up to the Wirral on a cold but dry day. We got some good birds and, of course it being January, some good “year ticks” right at the start of the birding year that we hope will be better than the last two Covid dominated years.
The first birding group day of the term was to Pennington Flash. Unusually it was quite still and, although cold, was not as Siberian as it often is. The January year ticks continued with all the ducks that are usually at Pennington. We had some nice passerines in the woods and from the Bunting hide…
A High Tide took us up to the Wirral for the first birding outing of the year. Despite the tide not being particularly impressive, it stopped just as it turned pas the lifeboat station, we still got a good relatively small numbers of birds. Further stops at New Brighton Marine Lake and Denhall Quay added…
Another year of Covid played havoc with our birding routines and with the holidays that usually include a bit of birding. As a result, everything was topsy turvy with the beginning of the year seeing outright travel bans and the closure of bird hides, restaurants, cafes and all the things that make birding easy. Instead…
When we left Burton Mere Wetlands, where we had been birding with the birding group, we decided that because it was a mild day and surprisingly the rain had held off so far, we would drop down top the Harp Inn for a drink and a toastie and look for Short-eared Owls.
The last birding group day out of November was to Burton Mere Wetlands. We didn’t bother going down to Inner Marsh Farm but we had a nice walk on a day that threatened rain but kept dry for us.
After we had been to Marshside, we didn’t have a lot of time left and the weather was getting a bit iffy, so we dropped in at the cafe for a tea and then just went to the main indoor/outdoor hide so we could get of first Whooper Swans of the year. apart from that…
The birding group were going to be visiting Burton but a last minute change of heart tookus to RSPB Marshside where we had hoped to see any of the Snow Buntings, Twite, Greater Scaup or Glossy Ibis which has been seen in recent days. We saw none of these! However, we had a good morning…
The second birding trip of the month was to Wigan Flashes which was fairly quiet except for a year tick of Goldeneye.
