High Tide at Riverbank Road, Heswall 24th January 2015 This was a ranger-led high-tide watch. The tide was 9.9 metres at 1.46pm and the meeting time was 11.30am. We got there in plenty of time after being at Shotwick Lane first. It was a sedentary affair with a row of people lined up on the…
Shotwick Boating Lake 24th January 2014 I had been reading on the Dee Estuary Birding web site that there were Black-necked Grebes wintering on Shotwick boating lake. I was quite keen to see these but I was actually more taken with the report for the 17th January when someone had seen four species of Swan…
Bittern at Budworth Mere : 30th December 2014 After reading reports of a Bittern in the reed bed at Budworth Mere for a couple of days, I thought that this could be a great chance to end the birding year (most likely) if I could manage to coincide with this bird. A group of us…
Burton Mere Wetlands : 23 December 2014 To finish off our birding day on the Wirral, after stops at Hoylake for the high tide followed by a visit to New Brighton Marine Lake to see the Purple Sandpipers, we dropped in on Burton Mere Wetlands on the way back. We started off at the reception…
Purple Sandpipers at New Brighton Marine Lake : 23rd December 2014 After a bit of a disappointing spell at Hoylake with a rather birdless high tide at Hoylake, I decided that it was worth a shot popping over to New Brighton to look for Purple Sandpipers. I had read that they were to be found…
High Tide at Hoylake : 23rd December 2015 A last visit to Hoylake for 2014 was for a high tide of 9.7m at 11.45am. Whilst the tide came in as expected and it came in quite far, for some reason the birds did not appear as expected. There were certainly plenty of Oystercatchers and Curlew…
Burton Mere Wetlands : 16th December 2014 With the birding group dates for the term finished, we had a spare Tuesday so we headed out for Burton Mere Wetlands. It was a low tide around midday so a lot of the possible birds were probably nearer the coast but it still had one or two…
Birding in Mallorca, October 2014 We flew out to Mallorca on the 29th September arriving in Palma where we stayed for four days. We didn’t do any birding there but some friends drove us north from Palma over the mountains and down to Port de Pollenca and during this drive we had great sightings of…
Heswall Shore at High Tide : 11th September 2014 We had planned to do this walk from the car park at Banks Road, Heswall along the shore to Thurstston Country Park, at high tide. The high tide was due to be at 13.24hrs (BST) with a height of 9.9m. We were a bit early so…
Red-necked Phalarope : Inner Marsh Farm : 9th September 2014 Would you be tempted to drive for an hour in order to see a Cattle Egret, a Red-necked Phalarope, Pectoral and Curlew Sandpipers, Greenshank and Little Stint all on the one scrape ? Well we were tempted because all of these birds were reported to…
