2017 Summary Our birding year got off to a good start with productive trips to North Wales where we got Snow Buntings and Hawfinch. A week later we went to Newchurch Common where we got Red-crested Pochard and Smew. Less happily we had to go to Portugal for the funeral of a good friend of…
Our last outing for the year was to Marbury Park on the 28th. We had hoped to see both the Hawfinches and the Bittern that had been seen there in recent days. Unfortunately we didn’t see either and nobody else we met had either. Some birders who had seen both knew exactly where to find…
On the 5th December the birding group headed up to the Wirral for a high tide of 9.9 metres at 11:55am. We started out with a quick stop at Burton Mere Wetlands where we just looked around the main scrape and walked down to the barn. On the walk we got Great Spotted Woodpecker but…
The birding group day out this week was to Hilbre ISland but we weren’t in the mood for that so we decided that we would go up to the Wirral anyway but go to Burton Mere Wetlands, Denholm Old Quay and then on to Connah’s Quay. We had a pretty good day at Burton getting…
It had been quite a while since we were last at Neumann’s Flash and, although we did not see anything particularly out of the ordinary, it was a good morning with a varied species list including Peregrine Falcon, Kestrel and Buzzard as well as Bullfinch, Goldcrest and a good number of Redwing with singles of…
I have been trying for ages to find out where the site referred on the Deeside Birding web site as the Caldy Wildfowl Collection is actually located. I even looked for it specifically recenty going from the east to the west along Column Road and didn’t see it. Recently, driving the opposite way, I located…
A high tide of 9.9 metres at 11:27am took us up to the Wirral where we dropped in at Hoylake, Rivebank Road, Denhall Old Quay and Burton Mere Wetlands. There haven’t been many high proper tides this year so this was a good chance to see what we could see in the way of waders…
October 2017 Summary UK Species Year List to September: 189 Total UK Species in October: 39 (in UK – 87 in Mallorca) New “Year Ticks” in October: 0 New “Life Ticks” in October: 0 (1 in Mallorca)
The only birding group date of the month that we could make was the last one, to Sandbach Flashes. It was fairly quiet but we did get a view of a perched Peregrine on a pylon. some Buzzards, some Snipe and prodigous numbers of Wigeons.
Last Day of Our Holiday and Summary October 2017
