Day Out to Martin Mere WWT 25th October 2011 It being a Tuesday, it would normally be a birding group day but as it happened everyone else was busy – probably because it was half-term – so we were looking at just the three of us – Anne, Mike and myself – going to Wigan…
Day Out to Martin Mere WWT 2nd October 2011 I had been looking for a new pair of binoculars and since I usually get my kit from the “In Focus” shop at Martin Mere WWT I asked them to let me know when they had a pair of Swarovski 8.5 x 42 ELs in stock…
Scotland Visit Day 7 : WWT Caerlaverock : 14th September 2011 Although we were due to return to Manchester this day, we still managed to get a couple of hours in at Caerlaverock again before continuing our journey. We started off by doing the short circular of the Peter Scott trail and in the woods…
Scotland Visit Day 6 : WWT Caerlaverock : 13th September 2011 On the Tuesday morning we drove from Stirling to Dumfries. The weather wasn’t brilliant but the worst of the storms seemed to pass in the night. We had planned on going over to the west coast and then driving down and then inland again…
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 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 Slimbridge WWT : 30th June 2011 From the New Forest we drove to Bristol on the 29th where we stayed overnight. This enabled us to break our return journey up into stages and in Bristol we caught up with an old friend of ours. Next morning we just had a short drive to…
Visit to Slimbridge WWT : 23rd June 2011 We were on our way to Montacute in Somerset for a wedding and we had stayed overnight at the Tudor Arms pub in Slimbridge village in order to break our journey up a bit and also to give us a chance to go to the Wildfowl and…
Anne and I had arranged to go to London to attend a friend’s 60th birthday party so we decided to go a day early and visit the WWT centre at Barnes. We got the tube to Hammersmith and then a number 283 bus from Hammersmith bus station (stand K) which is just at the rear…
