Visit to Blacktoft Sands : 6th August 2013 We went to the Yorkshire coast at this time of year last year but this time we decided to add in a couple of new sites for us. The first of these was the RSPB site at Blacktoft Sands which has featured on our birding group schedule…
Sandpipers at RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands 26th July 2013 After being stuck at home with flu, it was nice to get out for the day and we chose Burton Mere because I had read that there had been sightings of a few Green Sandpipers and a single Wood Sandpiper. So with our hopes raised we…
Visit to RSPB South Stack : 18th July 2013 We have had an absolute wash-out of a Spring and it has prevented us this year from going to some of our usual haunts at that time. These would normally include a seabird colony or two but this year we had not got to one during…
Birding Group Visit to RSPB Conwy 11th June 2013 This week’s birding day was to Wales and we all met up at the cafe at the RSPB site at Conwy. There have been quite a few changes to the cafe and surrounding area since we were last there. There is now the ubiquitous playground for…
Visit To Burton Mere Wetland, Iner Marsh Farm and Parkgate 30th May 2013 On the 30th May we spent the day out at Burton Mere Wetland, Inner Marsh Farm and Parkgate. We started out at the reception hide where we could see a decent number of Avocet. Unfortunately the young had been badly predated by…
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…
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 RSPB Radipole Lake 24th April 2013 After we left RSPB Arne we drove over to Weymouth to visit the Radipole Lake which has been modernised considerably since our last visit. They have got rid of the shop and now have a children’s activity centre and a toilet of their own. Previously you had…
