Birding Group Visit to Pennington Flash 10th January 2012 This was the first day of the new birding group term and it started with a regular of the group – Pennington Flash. Unusually for the time of year, the weather was really quite mild and even the usual wind tunnel effect in “Horrock’s hide” was…
Summary December 2011 Garden December saw the weather turn a little colder and much wetter after a very mild November. With the rain and cold came the birds and our garden has started to look more familiar. Each day there are at least a couple of dozen Goldfinches at a time on the feeders; two…
Sale Water Park and Kenworthy Woods 22nd December 2011 On 22nd we went to Chorlton Water Park where we parked up and then went for a walk. It was a beautiful winter day with lots of sun and unusually mild considering it was nearly Christmas – not at all like last year ! We started…
Day Out to Martin Mere WWT 13th December 2011 The birding group usually occupies our Tuesdays but last week was the last group-day before Christmas so we were keen to get out for a day birding before the demands of Christmas got too pressing and before the bad weather set in. We fancied going up to…
Sale Water Park 12th December 2011 In a break in the patch of wet weather we have had recently I went for a walk in Chorlton – along the burn, down to the Mersey, over the bridge and through Sale Water Park and returning to Chorlton Green via Jackson’s Bridge. Normally this would be a…
Bird Group Meeting at Dunham Massey Park 6 Dec 2011 On 6th December we all met up at Dunham Massey but the weather was pretty poor so we only went for a short walk after lunch there. The lunch was the birding group’s end of term meeting to plan for the next term where a…
Summary November 2011 November saw a range of weather from the very mild and sunny to the misty, cold and autumnal. The month started mild and then by the end of the first week there was a little rain and a considerable amount of mist, overcast skies and, of course, the evenings are dark with…
Birding Group Day Out to Sandbach Flashes 29th November 2011 I hadn’t been to Sandbach Flashes before so I looked it up in “Where to Watch Birds : North West England & the Isle of Man” by A. Conlin et al. This describes Sandbach Flashes as “a series of 15 or so shallow pools formed…
Birding Group Day Out to Neumann’s Flash & Haydyn’s Pool 22nd November 2011 The birding group were a little bit concerned that the visit to Neumann’s Flash and Haydyn’s Pool wouldn’t be very fruitful because of the lack of rain recently but, as it happened, the pools were quite full. In truth there wasn’t that…
Chorlton Water Park 20th November 2011 On the water at Chorlton Water Park we saw the usual Canada Geese, Black-headed Gulls, Mallards, Coots and Mute Swans but there were also about a dozen Tufted Ducks, an adult Great Crested Grebe with two juveniles and a pair of Pochard. We met a young boy who was…
