WWT Martin Mere : 8th December 2015 The last birding group day of the term was to WWT Martin Mere where we hoped – in vain – to see either the Greenland White-fronted Geese or the Green-winged Teal that had been reported. We didn’t see either of these species but we had a nice enough…
Marbury Country Park and Budworth Mere : 1st December 2015 The first December birding group date was in danger of being cancelled due to the bad weather but we did find one place with a fair forecast and that was Marbury Country Park and Budworth Mere. The day turned out to be quite pleasant and…
Summary November 2015 Species this month = 72 New Species added to 2015 Year List in November= 2 (Red-breasted Merganser and Common Scoter) Running Total for the 2015 UK So Far = 165 New UK Life List Birds In November= 0
High Tide at Hoylake, West Kirby and New Brighton : 27th November 1015 Hoylake The last high tide we are likely to get to before Christmas was on the 27th November and it was 9.8m at 11.45. S with the last time we went to Hoylake, the tide came in really quick. We were in…
Burton Mere Wetlands : 24th November 2015 The birding Group Tuesday on the 24th was to Burton Mere Wetlands. The weather was poor and there weren’t many birds around, particularly at Inner Marsh Farm, but we did get a nice field of mixed Fieldfare, Redwing, Mistle Thrush and Starlings in the sloping field on your…
Conwy and North Wales 10th November 2015 The birding group day out this week was to Llanfairfechan, Conwy and Llanddulas. The weather had been dreadful for several days so we were pushing our luck a bit going to north Wales. Still we gave it a go and we had to endure extrtemely strong winds at…
Frodsham Marsh : 3rd November 2015 We were due to have a birding group visit to Frodsham Marsh this Tuesday but there had been a lot of bad fog for a couple of days so most people called off. David Poole seemed to think it would be bad on the motorway and foggy on the…
Summary October 2015 New Species added to 2015 Year List in October = 2 Running Total for the 2015 UK So Far = 162 New UK Life List Birds In August = 0
Hoylake, Parkgate & Burton Mere : 29th October 2015 After we got back from our Mallorca holiday, I was checking up on recent sightings closer to home and I ame across the monthly news at the Deeside Birding Website and it showed a high tide of 10m at around 1pm on the 29th so I…
Mallorca Summary : 11th – 24th October 2015 We set out for Mallorca in the (horribly) early hours of the morning of the 11th October. En route to the hotel we got our first bird of prey – a Red Kite. This was just the start of a good tally of birds of prey but…
