Visit to WWT Martin Mere 6th April 2013 As we still had a bit of time available to us when we had finished at Mere Sands Wood we made the short drive to WWT Martin Mere. When we go to Martin Mere I reflect that we never see Curlew when we drive past Curlew Lane…
Visit to Mere Sands Woods 6th April 2013 We looked out the window and for once it was a beautiful dry and sunny day so we wasted very little time getting our gear ready and headed off to Mere Sands Wood which we have been meaning to go to – without the addition of snow…
Birding Group Schedule Spring 2013 The provisional schedule for Spring is as follows : Tue 09-Apr-13 Moore Nature Reserve Mon 15-Apr-13 Inner Marsh Farm ? Burton Mere Wetlands Tue 23-Apr-13 Pennington Flash Tue 30-Apr-13 Marshside / Mere Sands Woods Tue 07-May-13 Stayley Brushes Tue 14-May-13 Macclesfield Forest Tue 21-May-13 Neumann’s / Haydn’s Flash Tue 28-May-13…
Summary March 2013 Garden The first week of March was an unusually dry spell and sometimes quite warm. After that the weather got wetter and a bit colder. By the start of the second week it was snowing a bit and very cold but by the 17th it was drier and a bit warmer. Towards…
Summary of Birding in Norfolk, Cambridge, Rutland etc 22 – 28th March 2013 Our eight-day holiday, mixing visiting friends with as much birding as we could fit in en route, took us first to the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust site at Welney summarised here which was, disappointingly, as flooded as it had been last year….
Visit to Rutland Water Nature Reserve 28th March 2013 After we left Lakenheath Fen we drove up to the Midlands where we stayed at the Barnsdale Lodge Hotel, a very comfortable hotel that we had stayed at previously. It is a bit pricey normally but they do good offers for some dates and we took…
Visit to RSPB Lakenheath Fen 27th March 2013 After we left Halesworth we drove straight to Bury St Edmunds where we were staying with some other friends. After a nice dinner and watching a bit of the football on computer we went to bed and next day we set of early for Rutland Water but…
Visit to Halesworth 26th March 2013 After we left Minsmere on the 25th we went on to visit friends in Halesworth where we had dinner and caught up on things. They had been promising me that they had a Barn Owl in the field behind them that I could not fail to see if we…
Visit to RSPB Minsmere 25th March 2013 After our two-day guided birding weekend in the Thetford Forest and surrounding area we moved on to visit friends in Bury St Edmunds and en route we dropped in on RSPB Minsmere It was still very cold but there was no snow. We started out with a visit…
Birding in The Brecks Day 2 : 24th March 2013 On the second day of our two-day guided birding tour we had some new additions to the group and a couple of losses so Stuart felt obliged to show the newcomers some of the same spots we had visited the previous day. Whilst this was…
