July 2021 Summary
UK Species Year List to July 2021: 120Total UK Species in July 2021: 78New “Year Ticks” in July 2021: 17New “Life Ticks” in July 2021: 1
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Heswall Fields 1st August 2019
On the Deeside Birding Web Site there are daily reports of bird sightings and counts. One of the places that I had often wordered about was Heswall Fields. Some time ago, we did a ranger-led walk from Thurstaston Country Park along the beach to a good viewpoint at Heswall Fields. Then we returned back along…
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Sculthorpe Moore Hawk and Owl Trust Reserve 6th May 2019
At a bit of a loss as to what to do as the weather got duller and starting drizzling lightly, Anne hit on the idea of going towards Fakenham to the Sculthorpe Moore Hawk and Owl Trust Reserve, a place we had not heard of before. Despite the weather we at least managed to get…
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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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Hickling Broad NWT 2nd May 2019
We got up in a pretty bad mood at the hotel because we had no hot water and a cooked breakfast wasn’t even included in the £140 a night room we had for 2 nights ! We had to wait for the manageress to arrive to complain about it and this meant that we did…
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NWT Ranworth Broad 1st May 2019
We left Strumpshaw Fen and headed towards Horning stopping off at NWT Ranworth Broad. We didn’t know too much about this site but when we arrived it was mentioned to us that a boat trip was going to be leaving in about an hour. We decided to take them up on this.
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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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NWT Weeting Heath, RSPB Lakenheath Fen and BTO Nunnery Lakes 27th April 2019
The 27th April saw us visit an ununsual combination of reserves – unusual because all three were run by different ornithological conservation groups, the Norfolk Wildlife Trust reserve at Weeting Heath, the RSPB reserve at nearby Lakenheath Fen and also the only reserve run by the British Trust for Ornithology, Nunnery Lakes. The weather was…
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Rutland Water 26th April 2019
We started out on the 26th with a visit to Rutland Water. Our first stop was the Egleton Visitor Centre where we did a straight march to Lagoon 4 first visiting the Sandpiper Hide and then the Plover Hide. At Lagoon 4 we got Avocet, Ringed Plover and Bar-tailed Godwit etc. From there we worked…