Birding Group Visit To Macclesfield Forest 14th May 2013 Despite the weather forecast being a bit iffy, we went out to Macclesfield Forest and the weather was kind to us remaining dry and sunny if a bit windy. We parked up at the bottom of the woods next to the reservoir and walked up into…
Birding Group Visit to Staley Brushes 7th May 2013 This was our first visit to Staley Brushes with the birding group; previously we have either been on holiday or it has been raining so the venue was changed at the last minute. We had no such problem today as it was a lovely sunny and…
Summary April 2013 Garden Although April started out still cold, there were some signs in the first week of the possibility of Spring happening. It has at least been dry for a couple of weeks so the surrounding countryside is getting a chance to soak up the record rainfalls of March. Disturbingly there have been…
Visit to WWT Slimbridge 30th April 2013 We had stopped off at Slimbridge to break up our journey back from Somerset to Manchester and again we stayed at the Tudor Arms Hotel in Slimbridge. This afforded us a chance to go to WWT Slimbridge once again before we had to go home. We started off…
Visit to RSPB Shapwick Heath 29th April 2013 Flushed with our glorious sighting of three Bitterns at the Ham Wall end of Ashcott Road, we crossed over the car park and onto the Shapwick Heath reserve. We walked up to the pools on Meare Heath and there were a couple of people who had been…
Visit to RSPB Ham Wall 29th April 2013 We had a day off birding on the 28th as we went walking with the friends we were staying with. Even then we did see a Willow Warbler and a Rock Pipit. We left our friends on the 29th but we decided that we could afford another…
Walk around Lyme Regis 28th April 2013 We had something of a day off birding to go for a walk with the friends with whom we were staying. We all decided to take a walk around Lyme Regis and whilst this was not a birding walk we still did come across a Willow Warbler and,…
Visit to RSPB Shapwick Heath 27th April 2013 Having spent a bit of time at the RSPB reserve at Ham Wall I decided to forego lunch with the friends I was with and instead to have a quick look at the adjoining Natural England reserve at Shapwick Heath. I only had time to walk down…
Visit to RSPB Ham Wall 27th April 2013 Part of our holiday involved staying with friends in Montacute in South Somerset and, as we had been reading a lot recently about the RSPB reserve at Ham Wall and the adjoining Natural England reserve at Shapwick Heath, this seemed like an ideal opportunity to check these…
Visit to Brownsea Island 25th April 2013 This was our last day in Poole so it was with some scepticism when we looked out of the hotel window to find that the promenade was hardly visible never mind Brownsea island. Anyway we thought that we would take a walk along the prom to see if…
