Upper Goyt Valley & Dane Bower Quarry : 20th May 2016 We are due to go to Scotland at the same time as the birding group has scheduled Upper Goyt Valley so we will miss it. We decided to go there, a little earlier than usual) in the hope of seeing the usual species we…
Lakenheath Fen 2nd May 2016 We drove from Wicken Fen to Lakenheath Fen as part of our Peterborough to Halesworth journey. The afternoon had started to look a bit gloomy but we felt we had a fair chance of getting to the first hide and back before the rain fell. It was a bit of…
El Jable and Salinas de Janubio, Lanzarote : 4th March 2016
El Jable & Las Salinas, Lanzarote : 1st March 2016
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Scotland Trip Day 7 : RSPB Fowlsheugh : 2nd June 2014 Day 6 of our Scottish holiday was spent with the family and, apart from a visit to a formal garden where a pair of Oystercatchers had nested right in the middle of one of the ornamental sections, we did not do any real birding….
RSPB Ham Wall and NE Shapwick Heath : 27th April 2014 Another unpromising day weather-wise but we did not let this put us off. We decided to go back to RSPB Ham Wall and NE Shapwick Heath but this time we started at the far end of the Shapwick Heath reserve, first dropping into the…
Birding Group Autumn Schedule 2013 – 2014 24 Sep Pennington Flash 1 Oct Moore Nature Reserve 8 Oct Brockholes 15 Oct Neumann’s & Haydn’s Flashes 22 Oct Leighton Moss : Day trip 29 Oct Wigan Flashes (visit far side of canal ?) 5 Nov Burton Mere Wetlands (high tide approx 11.45am) 12…
Visit to RSPB Arne 26th April 2013 Our three-day stay in Poole had come to an end and it was time for us to move on to Somerset where we were to stay with friends. However we had another chance to drop in on RSPB Arne which was more or less on our way anyway….
Visit to WWT Martin Mere 14th March 2013. On 14th March we paid a visit to WWT Martin Mere, principally to pick up my new Swarovski ATX scope and APO adapter for my Nikon D300 that I had ordered two months ago ! We gave the scope a test run on a fairly quick walk…
