June 2022 Summary
New “Year Ticks” in June 2022: 8New “Life Ticks” in June 2022: 0Total Species for 2022 so far: 150
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Birding Group Marbury Park 21 June 2022
The last day of the birding group terms was, as it often is, at Marbury Park. It was a pleasant enough day and it was interesting to note the improvements to the path running along the edge of the mere. There were still a few Sand Martins and Swallows flying around and lots of Coots…
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Birding Group 2 Day Visit to Blacktoft Sands, North Cave and Bempton Cliffs 13-14 June 2022
The overnighter for the birding group this term was to North Yorkshire taking in Blacktoft Sands, North Cave and Bempton Cliffs. THis trip is always a good chance to get a few year ticks and this trip we managed to get sixty-three species including seven year ticks.
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Burton Mere Wetlands 7th June 2022
The first birding group outing of the month was to Burton Mere Wetlands. It was a reasonable morning but with only a few notable birds. The first was an adult Mediterranean Gull with a juvenile, a year tick. The second was a single Pintail, both of these from the bridge screen and then, from Inner…
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May 2022 Summary
New “Year Ticks” in May 2022: 29New “Life Ticks” in May 2022: 3Total Species for 2022 so far: 142
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Goyt Valley and Danebower Quarry 24th May 2022
The first birding group morning out after our two-week holiday was one of my personal favourites – to the Goyt Valley and Danebower Quarry. We usually hope to get Redstart, Pied and Spotted Flycatcher, Tree Pipit and Ring Ouzel. Well, we didn’t get all of these but we did get some.
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Norfolk Birding Holiday Summary May 2022
Our last visit to Norfolk in 2019 had perhaps spoiled us as the round trip gave us so many of those species that we love including Dotterel and Turtle Dove. This trip gave us fewer species and not all of the most desirable birds but the weather was so much better than in 2019 which…
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Frampton Marsh RSPB 20th May 2022
The 20th was the last day of our holiday and we drove from our cottage in Thornham to the village of Woolsthorpe by Belvoir where we stayed at the Chequers Inn. En route, though, we stopped at Frampton Marsh RSPB reserve. Here was our last chance to see Turtle Doves we thought, since we had…
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Titchwell Marsh RSPB and Hunstanton Cliffs
This was our last day at the cottage before heading homewards so we decided to have a last look at Titchwell RSPB where we, at last, managed to get a year tick Little Gull. After that we went to the beach at Hunstantion and then returned home to pack our bags.