Summary : June 2015 New Species added to 2015 Year List in June= 17 Running Total for the 2015 UK So Far = 146 New UK Life List Birds In June = 2 Our Garden The garden continues to be full of ravenous young Starlings. A Robin visits now and again but the neighbours House…
Summary : May 2015 New Species added to 2015 Year List in May= 16 Running Total for the 2015 UK So Far = 128 New UK Life List Birds In March = 1 (Wood Warbler) Our Garden The Starlings have been coming to the bird feeders with their new young many times a day and…
Summary : April 2015 New Species added to 2015 Year List in April = 11 Running Total for the 2015 UK So Far = 112 New UK Life List Birds In March = 0 Our Garden Lots of activity now with Tits gadding around, a Dunnock furtling, a Robin putting in an appearance. the two…
Summary : March 2015 New Species added to 2015 Year List in March = 7 Running Total for the 2015 UK So Far = 101 New UK Life List Birds In March = 0 Our Garden March saw the garden alive with birds. A pair of Dunnocks and at least one pair of Robins are…
Summary : February 2015 New Species added to 2015 Year List in February= 12 Running Total for the 2015 UK So Far = 94 New UK Life List Birds In February = 2 Our Garden February started the same way as January ended – with some hard overnight frosts and some cold clear and bright…
Summary : January 2015 New Species added to 2015 Year List in January= 82 Running Total for the 2015 UK So Far = 82 New UK Life List Birds In January = 0 Our Garden The weather is very mixed. There have been some very light snow falls and some very cold days but the…
Summary : December 2014 Birding Group Days Out The first birding group day of December was to Moore Nature Reserve and whilst there was a reasonable smattering of birds, the day was pretty average with one exception, a Tawny Owl – my first ! How strange that, the very next week, at a full day…
Summary : November 2014 Birding Group Days Out The first birding group day out of November was to Tatton Park on the 4th. It was a lovely autumn day and still quite warm. It was a bit quiet in Dog Wood but we did see GS Woodpecker, Treecreeper and Nuthatch. On the water there was…
Summary : October2014 Birding On Holiday Our birding month was dominated by our holiday in Mallorca where we had some great life ticks, including Black Vulture, Booted Eagle and Eleonora’s Falcons. On the wetland front we had great views of an Osprey and life ticks of Purple Swamphen and Red-knobbed Coot. In general we visited…
Summary : September 2014 Birding Days Out Our birding month was late in starting but then got off to a cracking start with sightings of two UK life listers in Cattle Egret and Red-necked Phalarope.. Added to this were Curlew and Pectoral Sandpipers, Greenshank and Little Stints. All these from RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands The…
