Day Out To Pennington Flash 21st September 2011 We fancied a couple of hours out as the weather wasn’t too bad so we decided to go to Pennington Flash. Before we even got on the motorway in Chorlton we had great views of a Buzzard considering whether to land on a roadside tree. In the…
Day Out To WWT Martin Mere : 4th August 2011 We drove up to Martin Mere to collect the new scope I had ordered but while we were there we had a look around the hides as well. The weather wasn’t brilliant and it had been raining heavily so the scrapes were under water and…
Day Out To Tatton Park : 3rd August 2011 We drove out to Tatton Park, parking in the usual place at the south side of Tatton Mere. We walked through the woods which were pretty quiet although we did see a Nuthatch and a Song Thrush as well as the more familiar suspects. On the…
Day Out To Upper Derwent Valley : 28th July 2011 The Upper Derwent Valley is an area of the Peak District National Park and within it are various sites including Ladybower Reservoir, Derwent Reservoir and Howden Reservoir and their associated dams. From the visitor centre (on weekdays only) you can drive all the way up…
Day Out To WWT Martin Mere : 26th July 2011 We went up to Martin Mere mainly because I wanted to get a part exchange price on my 4 year old Opticron scope from the “In Focus” store there. I spoke to Andy Bunting who works in the shop there and who we have talked…
Visit To Gauntlet Bird of Prey Centre We went for an afternoon out to the Gauntlet Bird of Prey Centre which is next to Fryer’s Rose Nursery and Garden Centre on Manchester Road in Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 0SX. The admission is very cheap compared to other similar places we have been to. They are open…
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…
Day Out To WWT Martin Mere : 6th June 2011 A good day out at Martin Mere. We started off by going straight down to hide H3 – the Ron Barker Hide where we saw a lot of the usual suspects. Particular birds of interest we saw were a single Whooper Swan. This was a…
Day Out To Lymm Dam : 5th June 2011 We wanted a walk within a short drive from home so we decided to go to Lymm Dam. The weather was a bit damp and a little rain fell from time to time but we were able to walk around the main part of the site…
