Birding Group Visit to Blacktoft Sands and North Cave 3 June 2024
Day 1 of the Birding Group Overnighter to Yorkshire : RSPB Blacktoft Sands and North Cave Nature Reserve.
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RSPB Leighton Moss 14 May 2024
The birding group had arranged to go to RSPB Leighton Moss on 14 May but a bad weather report put everyone off. We had already booked a room at Ye Old Fighting Cocks in Silverdale (don’t say here again) and it was too late to cancel, so we decided to go ahead on our own while the birding group went to Burton Mere Wetlands.
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Burton Mere Wetlands and Denhall Quay 20th February 2024
The birding group outing this week was to Brockholes. We decided not to go there.; instead we went to Burton Mere Wetlands where, last week, we had gone before going up to Parkgate for the high tide. Unfortunately they were strimming all around the scrape that morning, so we had very little chance to see…
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Ham Wall and Shapwick Heath 6th April 2023
After a short visit to Bristol, to catch up with friends, we moved on to Montacute to see our friends who live there. The weather looked a bit uncertain on the day we had planned to go there but we gave it a shot and managed to both avoid any bad weather and get a…
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High Tide at Riverbank Road and Burton Mere Wetlands 23 March 2023
We had a second go at a high tide a couple of days after our first visit when the tide was much better; 10.1 metres at 12:12pm. We started out at Riverbank Road on the Wirral. It was a bit wetter than on the Tuesday but the weather helped the tide come in a long…
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High Tide at Parkgate and Burton Mere Wetlands 21 March 2023
A hight tide of 9.8 metres at 10:49am took us up to Parkgate where, amazingly, the car park at the Old Baths was viertually empty. This was probably because it was the first day of high tides which were: 21st March, 10.49hrs (GMT), 9.8m.22nd March, 11.31hrs (GMT), 10.1m.23rd March, 12.12hrs (GMT), 10.1m.24th March, 12.50hrs (GMT),…
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High Tide Birding on the Wirral 21st and 23rd February 2023
The birding group had a morning out to Brockholes planned but because there was a high tide on the Wirral, we decided to there ourselves. We hadn’t had a high tide there this year because we had been on holiday in Lanzarote and, since the February high tides are usually good, we decided that that…
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Birding group Trip to Conwy and North Wales 14-15th February 2023
The first birding group outing of the year that we could make it to (we had been on holiday in Lanzarote) was to RSPB Conwy and North Wales. We decided, though, that we would rather stay overnight and come back the next day. This gave us a chance to see some other sites than we…
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Parkgate, Riverside Road, Neston Old Quay, and Burton Mere Wetlands 25th October 2022
The birding group day out on the 25th October took in a range of sites on the Wirral, starting off with Parkgate where there was a 9.5 metre high tide at 11:48am – not particularly high but it was a beautifully sunny, clear day with fantastic visibility all the way over to Wales.
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Burton Mere Wetlands and Parkgate 6th September 2022
Despite predictions, we had fair weather for a trip up to Burton Mere Wetlands. Despite there being quite a lot of rain recently, water levels were fairly good and afforded us decent views of a few waders, especially Sandpipers.