With three days of good weather predicted, we took the opportunity to visit North Wales in order to catch up with all the cliff nesting birds and other special species that we normally manage to get on our trips to North Wales. As it happened, there were two really sunny days that sandwiched one awful…
UK Species Year List to May 2021: 78Total UK Species in May 2021: 72New “Year Ticks” in May 2021: 23New “Life Ticks” in May 2021: 0
September marked the return to some kind of non back garden birding for us as the Covid 19 restrictions on travel were eased. A lot of the reserves we go to still have their hides closed as at Burton but some have opened them as at Martin Mere. Either way there are still restrictions in…
Our last birding day out of September was again to Burton Mere Wetlands. We started off walking to the new elevated viewing platform getting a year-tick Cetti’s Warbler on the way. On the scrape were a group of five Egyptian Geese and a single Whooper Swan- another year tick. Unfortunately I couldn’t get my scope…
We ventured further afield that the Wirral this week and pre-booked (as you have to now) a visit to WWT Martin Mere. It was a very different experience to our usual visits there but it was a nice day and we got a few decent birds.
For all of April, May, June and July we were not allowed to travel except for limited reasons, none of which was birding – although, from reading the birding magazines, plenty of people found a way around this in pursuit of their more important hobby. For us, though, we stayed at home so the only…
UK Species Year List to December 2019 : 184Total UK Species in December 2019 : 71New “Year Ticks” in December 2019 : 4New “Life Ticks” in December 2019 : 0
Our last chance of the year to do some birding came on the 28th December when there was a moderately high tide on the Wirral – 9.24m at 12:19pm. We hoped that this would give us a little boost to our December monthly species list.
As well as the birds we saw at Brazo Del Este, we also got a few other birds in Seville and Cadiz so the following is the grand total of our Spanish holiday – 66 species including 9 lifers and numerous year ticks
