Birding Group Day Out to Burton Mere Wetlands RSPB 31st October 2011 This was the first time we had been to this particular part of the site. Previously the site had been called Inner Marsh Farm and had a small entrance “hut” and a small car park. You could walk through woodlands and then between…
Birding Group Day Out to Leighton Moss RSPB 18th October 2011 Although the day started out pretty wet and looking a bit grim, by the time we got to Leighton Moss RSPB the day had picked up a little and although it remained very variable, the weather managed to keep dry whilst we were there….
Scotland Visit Day 1 : RSPB Inversnaid : 8th September 2011 We had the chance to visit family up north so we decided to make a bit of a break of it by staying at some birding places on the way there and back. We drove from Manchester to Stirling on 7th September. We had…
Day Out to Leighton Moss RSPB : 6th July 2011 It had been a while since we were last at Leighton Moss and we hoped that although it was late on in the season that we stood a chance of seeing Bearded Tits or at least a good range of Warblers. We were to be…
Visit to Lodmore RSPB : 25th June 2011 Just a short drive away along the A353 is the Lodmore RSPB reserve. We hadn’t been there before but a couple of people we met at Radipole Lake told us that it is often more productive than Radipole so we decided to go there. There is parking…
Visit to Radipole Lake RSPB : 25th June 2011 Anne and I had spent the previous day attending the wedding of our friends’ daughter in Montacute in Somerset and this day we thought we should leave them all alone until meeting up again in the evening so we decided to drive down to the RSP…
Day Out To RSPB Lake Vyrnwy Nature Reserve : 16 June 2011 We had stayed the previous night at a hotel in LLongollen because we had been on the Nightjar walk in the Coed LLandegla Forest until midnight so we didn’t want to travel back to Manchester late at night. This meant we had a…
Day Out To RSPB Coed Llandegla Forest : 15 June 2011 We had heard about the RSPB walks at this forest when we were at RSPB Conwy where they had a leaflet about various attractions under the moniker “A date with nature”. Two of these attractions took place at the Coed Llandegla Forest near Llangollen…
RSPB Conwy We left Bodnant and decided to go back up to RSPB Conwy for a bite to eat and a last chance to view the lagoon from the panoramic cafe window. As we arrived it was pointed out to us that someone had just seen a Citrine Wagtail which is a reasonably rare bird…
We booked 4 nights in the Premier Inn in Caernarfon with a view to using it as a base for touring Anglesey and The Lleyn Peninsula. On our way we stopped at RSPB Conwy for a spot of lunch and a walk around the reserve. The House Martins and Swallows were flying over the water…
