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Birding Group Trip to Blacktoft Sands, North Cave and Bempton Cliffs 3 – 4 June 2019
The fist birding group outing of the month was an overnight trip; this time to Blacktoft Sands, North Cave and Bempton Cliffs. This was our first chance of the year to get most of the cliff-nesting birds that we had not already got. An additional bonus was a couple of other passerine year ticks.
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Birding Group at Burton Mere Wetlands 28th May 2019
The last birding group day of May was to Burton Mere Wetlands on the 28th. Early rain eased off to give us an overcast but mild morning. The highlights were a pair of Spoonbills in Summer plumage, preening on the bridge pool, flying overhead and roosting in the trees. Another good sighting was a pair…
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Turtle Doves at Titchwell Marsh RSPB 9th May 2019
From Holmes Dunes we drove back past Thornham and on to RSPB Titchwell for our last visit of the holiday. The weather was a bit better today so we were hoping for one last chance of Turtle Dove that are known to purr near the car park. And that is exactly what we found.
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Titchwell Marsh RSPB 6th May 2019
The weather held up in the morning and we felt we were in for a great day of birding. Although we planned to go to a few sites during the day, after Chosely it seemed logical to drop in at RSPB Titchwell. We were glad we did because we got an excellent year tick among…
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Titchwell Marsh RSPB 4th May 2019
Unfortunately the weather had not improved much from yesterday but we decided to give Titchwell a go – after all it was only a mile down the road. We were at the reserve before the visitor centre was open so we headed straight down towards the Parrinder hides. We stopped half way down at the…
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RSPB Strumpshaw Fen 1st May 2019
On the 1st May we left Halesworth to spend a couple of days on the Broads. Our first stopover en route was at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen. We had managed to get an early start so we got there by 10am. It was pleasant to see that the facilities had been upgraded a bit since we…
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RSPB Minsmere 30th April 2019
The 29th had been a travel day from Mundford to Halesworth. On that day we stayed with our friends who lived nearby but on the 30th we had the whole day to ourselves before meeting up with them again in the evening for a meal at at The Angel Hotel where we stayed that night….
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The Wirral 15th April 2019
Bird Sightings Leosowe Lighthouse 15th April 2019 We had a solo day out on the Wirral on the 15th, starting out looking for migrants at Leosowe Lighthouse. Unfortunately the wind was so strong that all the dust was blowing up from the car park and made hard work of my contact lenses. We tried to…
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Green-winged Teal and Spoonbill at RSPB Leighton Moss 9th April 2019
We only had four of us for the birding group visit to RSPB Leighton Moss on 9th April 2019 but we had a most fantastic day with good weather and lots of birds including a number of year ticks and a life tick as well.