Mallorca Holiday 3rd May 2015 : Formentor and C’an Cuarassa
Mallorca Holiday 3rd May 2015 : Formentor and C’an Cuarassa
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Mallorca Holiday 1st May 2015 : C’an Cuarassa, S’Albufereta
Mallorca Holiday 1st May 2015 : C’an Cuarassa, S’Albufereta
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Mallorca Holiday 30th April 2015 : S’Albefura
Mallorca Holiday 30th April 2015 : S’Albefura
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Mallorca Holiday 24th April 2015 : “Pollenca Back Lanes”
Mallorca Holiday 24th April 2015 : “Pollenca Back Lanes” We decided to do a bit of local birding as a warm up for the more distant sites that we meant to do later in our holiday. We plumped for the “Pollenca Back Lanes” tour mentioned in Dave Gosney’s book ““Finding Birds in Mallorca”. The walk…
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WWT Martin Mere : 9th March 2014
WWT Martin Mere : 9th March 2014 On a lovely Sunday morning we decided to drive up to WWT Martin Mere. I had been reading lately that there was a male Ruff there in nearly full breeding plumage and I really wanted to this quite rare event – rare especially in the north of England….
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Winter Redwings in Chorlton
Winter Redwings in Chorlton
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Buff-bellied Pipit and Siberian Chiffchaff, Burton Marsh 28th December 2013
Buff-bellied Pipit and Siberian Chiffchaff, Burton Marsh 28th December 2013 The reported presence of a Buff-bellied Pipit and a Siberian Chiffchaff at Burton Marsh was too much to resist and with just a few days of 2013 left I was determined to add another tick to my 2013 year list – indeed a it would…
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The Pensarn Hoopoe : 22nd December 2013
The Pensarn Hoopoe : 22nd December 2013 I had been looking at the presence of this bird at Pensarn for quite some time on the bird alert services, Rare Bird Alert and Rare Bird Network, the latter of which I now access via Twitter. Both had been showing the bird for weeks after it had…
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Search for Crossbills, Broomhead Reservoir 14th December 2013
Search for Crossbills, Broomhead Reservoir 14th December 2013 I had been looking for weeks at the sightings of Two-barred and Common Crossbills listed on the Birdguides “Bird News Anywhere” site but had not yet found the time to get over to Broomhead Reservoir which is nearly at Sheffield. On a Sunday and the weather looking…
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Visit to Hoylake and Parkgate for High Tide 7th December 2013
Visit to Hoylake and Parkgate for High Tide 7th December 2013 We dropped in at Burton Mere Wetland in the morning hoping to see the Little Stint. We were disappointed with that but undaunted we headed off for Hoylake for a high tide of approximately 9.8 m (32.1 ft) at around 2pm. We had intended…
