Summary October2012 Garden The start of October was very wet with some really torrential downpours. A few days towards the middle of the month were sunny and cold but the rain kept coming back in, sometimes, biblical quantities. October saw the return of Blackbirds and we have had a noisy pair in the garden recently….
Birding Group Visit To Frodsham Marshes 30th October 2012 As soon as I got out of the car I had a quick look at the telegraph wires that run across the field to the left side of the parking place we use and they had scatterings of Starlings lined along them. Occasionally something would get…
Birding Group Visit To Hilbre Island 22nd October 2012 Usually when we go to Hibre Island we have to brave a lot of wind and usually some rain as well. Today was completely different and the day was warm and completely windless. This mean that a t-shirt would have been the best attire because after…
Birding Group Visit to Pennington Flash 16th October 2012 It seems that every time that the birding group schedules Wigan Flashes the weather conspires to be so bad that it is changed to Pennington Flash at the last minute, primarily because at least there is shelter there. This time was no exception. The weather wasn’t…
Afternoon Visit to Rostherne Mere 10th October 2012 After our rather disappointing visit to Sandbach Flashes we decided, after a spot of lunch at the Bells of Peover, to drop in on the hide at Rostherne Mere. We had previously been there most recently during the Open Day when we joined the Cheshire and Wirral…
Morning Visit to Sandbach Flashes 10th October 2012 We missed the first birding group date of the month which was at Sandbach Flashes due to a dental appointment but we did go there the following day by way of keeping up with what the birding group is doing. We started off by parking on the…
Summary September 2012 Garden The start of September saw an improvement in the weather and by the end of the first week we had seen a few sunny days. On 7th we had a Great Spotted Woodpecker on our nut feeder in the garden which is a rarity. It had a rather stripy red head…
Birding Group Visit to Burton Mere Wetland and Inner Marsh Farm 17th September 2012 The Second date of the new birding term for our group was to Burton Mere Wetlands. In the main hide we could see a large number of Greylag and Canada Geese. There were high numbers of Lapwing around thirty Black-tailed Godwits….
Open Day at Rostherne Mere 15 September 2012 We attended an open day at Rostherne Mere nature reserve organised by Natural England. and CAWOS (The Cheshire and Wirral Ornithological Society). This was to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Boyd Observatory. We had been to Rostherne Mere before but the hide is…
Birding Group Visit to Pennington Flash 11th September 2012 This was the first day of the new term for the birding group and there was quite a good attendance. The weather was very changeable and when we first arrived it started to rain and stayed that way on and off for the rest of the…
