We were supposed to go to Frodsham with the birding group on the 12th but they decided they were going to park on the motorway bridge and walk from there. Several people opted out of this for their own reasons but I just thought that there wasn’t much likelihood of seeing anything much there that…
In a two hour walk around Sale Water Park (4 miles in 2 hours !!) I managed to encounter three professional dog walkers with between 6 and 8 dogs each and in total around 60-70 dogs during that 2 hour period; two of these jumped up on me and the second of these led to…
The first birding group trip for us in a while was supposed to be North Wales but the recent poor weather sent us, instead, to Pennington Flash where, surprisingly enough, it was actually quite mild with no wind to add the generally low temperatures. As usual for Pennington there was a good variety of birds…
January 2019 : Summary UK Species Year List to January: 72 Total UK Species in January: 72 New “Year Ticks” in January: 72 New “Life Ticks” in January: 0
We managed to avoid some of the worst January weather in Manchester by going to Lanzarote for ten days from the 13th January. We stayed in Playa Blanca at the Princessa Yaiza hotel as usual and as well as our usual visit to the Salinas de Janubio, we also had another guided morning (well about…
A moderately high-ish tide of 9.06 metres at 12:25 pm took us up to the Wirral again. We were obviously going to be a bit early if we left at our usual 9am, so we left at 9.15 and thought it was worth trying New Brighton Marine Lake to see if we could find any…
A tip from Birdguides took us to Hulme looking for Waxwings. At first “all” we saw was a lvery large (100+) flock of Redwing in all the treese around the bridge that goes over Princess Road next to The Brooks Building at the University but after a short wait a flock of around ten Waxwings…
Annual Summary 173 Species of Birds Seen In UK in 2018 UK Life Ticks in 2018 Iceland Gull in Tobermory Harbour on 23rd June Bonaparte’s Gull at Hoylake 14th August Rose-coloured Starling, St Helens 28th October 2018 Velvet Scoter on High Rid Reservoir near Bolton on 25th November 2018
December 2018 : Summary UK Species Year List to December: 173 Total UK Species in December: 66 New “Year Ticks” in December: 2 New “Life Ticks” in December: 0
The last birding day of the year for us was on the 30th. A succession of ilnesses and colds over the festive period had seriously curtailed our birding chances – which seems to happen every December. Be that as it may we managed to get out just before the close of the year but…
