The first stage of our holiday, planned to take in a week on Mull as well as several other locations on the way to and from there, was a drive from Manchester to Dumfries where we stopped off at WWT Caerlaverock and also, a new site for us, at RSPB Mersehead.
May 2018 : Summary UK Species Year List to May: 131 Total UK Species in May: 81 New “Year Ticks” in May: 11 New “Life Ticks” in May: 0
Our annual visit to the Goyt Valley saw a little bit of a dip in the weather; it has been a bit of a mini heatwave the last week or so. Still, it remained dry for us and we had a nice walk. Unfortunately – and unusually – we dis not see any Redstart at…
Our visit to Macclesfield Forest was notable mainly for it being a gloriously sunny day. As son as we set off up the hill from the car park we heard the yaffling of a Green Woodpecker, though didn’t manage to see it. There were surprisingly few birds in the woods though we got the commoner…
April 2018 : Summary UK Species Year List to April: 120 Total UK Species in April: 92 New “Year Ticks” in April: 22 New “Life Ticks” in April: 0
We moved on from Somerset to visit friends at Bristol. This gave us the chance to visit WWT Steart Marshes, though it turned out to be a freezing day and quite wet.It was raining when we arrived at the car park so we drove further up the road to the other small car park at…
We travelled from Oxfordshire to Somerset to visit friends and this gave us a whole day to check out both RSPB Ham Wall and also the neighbouring Shapwick Heath. It was a lot colder than we expected and it felt more like a winter day than a spring day. Be that as it may, we…
We had a brief trip down south to visit friends and family and our first stop was near Oxford so this gave us the chance to go to RSPB Otmoor reserve. It was a fine, dry day and quite warm so we had high hopes of perhaps getting Turtle Doves and Lesser Whitethroats. We saw…
