Today has seen heavy rain all day but this just seems to have encouraged the garden birds to stay put so we have been seeing a lot of our daily visitors who are usually : Goldfinch, Chaffinch, Coal Tit, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Blackbird, Robin, Dunnock, Starling, Blackcap, Collared Dove and Wood Pidgeon. Oddly enough…
Last week we spent a couple of days in Conwy. Our highlight was seeing a small number of Redwing in a stand of trees by the estuary. We visited Conwy RSPB but there were also a great number of waders present on the estuary including lots of Redshank, Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwits, Curlew and Shelduck. Here…
This weeks visit of the birding group was to Moore Nature Reserve. According to their web site “Moore Nature Reserve is a 200-acre site in Warrington, north Cheshire. The reserve consists of five large lakes surrounded by extensive woodland, meadows and wetlands, made accessible by a network of paths and bird hides. Its many habitats…
According to Wikipedia “Pennington Flash Country Park is a 200 hectares (494 acres) country park located between Lowton and Pennington, Leigh in Greater Manchester, England. The flash is a 70 hectares (173 acres) lake created at the turn of the 20th century by coal mining subsidence and flooding, mainly from Bickershaw Colliery. Now an extensive…
This Sparrowhawk spent about 20 minutes in a tree overlooking our garden displaying far too much interest in our bird feeders. I think it must have eaten recently because it spent more time preening than trying to catch the various birds that flew by unaware of its presence.
The provisional programme for the WEA birding mornings is :- Jan 11th Pennington Flash Jan 18th Moore Jan 25th Full day. Final itinerary to be chosen nearer time, but Marshside/Hesketh Bank/Martin Mere/Meresands Woods area Feb 1st Redesmere Feb 8th Neumann’s Flash Feb 14th MONDAY . Full day Hilbre Island. No facilities ie take sandwiches. Feb…
