December 2018 : Summary
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
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Burton Mere Wetlands 30th December 2018
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…
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Birding Group Schedule for 2019 Part 1
Jan 15: Burton Mere Wetlands Jan 22: Riverbank Road, Heswall followed by Denhall Quay (High Tide 11.50) Jan 29: Hilbre (Low Tide at noon)
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Birding Group visit to WWT Martin Mere
The birding group outing on the 4th December was to WWT Martin Mere. We wanted to set off early because we were due to have a planning meeting after our morning bird watching. Accordingly we set off about 8:15am instead of our usual 9am. Google maps was showing that the M6 was at a standstill…
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Great Northern Diver at West Kirby : 2nd December 2018
Although the weather reports for the Wirral were poor, we decided to risk the weather to have a go at finding the Great Northern Diver seen recently on West Kirby Marine Lake. We knew that on a Sunday it might be busy but we had forgotten that the tide was as far out as it…
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November 2018 Summary
November 2018 : Summary UK Species Year List to November : 171 Total UK Species in November : 77 New “Year Ticks” in November : 2 New “Life Ticks” in November : 1
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Birding Group Burton Mere Wetlands : 27th November 2018
The last birding group outing of November was meant to be a trip down the Welsh coast but the weather was so bad that we changed it to Burton. Even then there were only five of us turned out due to a poor weather forecast which was a shame because we got some good sightings…
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Velvet Scoter at High Rid Reservoir near Bolton 25th November 2018
Anne suggested that we did something the next day, which was a Sunday morning, so I looked at Bird Guides and saw that there had been a Velvet Scoter on High Rid reservoir near Bolton, only about a 20 minute drive away. A quick Google of Pete Hines Youtube channel brought up a video of…
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Birding Group Visit to Pennington Flash : 13th November 2018
The birding group day that was set for Frodsham morphed into a day at PEnnington which was pretty good with a nice number of birds but nothing particularly outstanding. As usual for Pennington, though, good numbers of species and a good morning out and about.
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Wirral High Tide : 11th November 2018
It was the 11th of the month before we got out birding and that was a trip up to the Wirral where, although the high tide was very modest on paper at 9.7m or thereabouts, the tide seemed to come a long way in and we got some good views of the usual suspects but…