We set of from Wing and drove directly to Weeting Heath where we joined the Norfolk Wildlife Trust for 15 months (3 months free) and immediately set off to the usual hide looking for Stone Curlews. It wasn’t long before we saw two birds, one sitting hard on the nest but the other moving around…
We started our holiday with a stopover afternoon at Rutland Water. An early start meant that we had a few hours at Rutland Water where we managed to get excellent views of the two Ospreys both on and off the nest, the fame feeding on a fish the male had caught earlier. But the best…
Total UK Species in April 2022: 65New “Year Ticks” in April 2022: 11New “Life Ticks” in April 2022: 0 Total Species for 2022 so far: 110
The birding group visit to Pennington Flash on the 26th April turned out to be a really, warm and sunny day with very little wind. The foliage is all back on the trees now, making spotting birds trickier, but they are full of bird song. We got lots of warblers but also three Spring visitors.
The birding group had a morning out to Burton Mere Wetlands on 19th April. The rain held off to give us a nice Spring day and the birds were definately full of spring themselves with lots of Wrens, Cetti’s and other small birds dashign around everywhere collecting nesting material and some even seemed to be…
A morning out to Burton Mere Wetlands promised the possibility of Garganey as well as all the other usual species. As it happened, we got four new year ticks and some very good views of a bird that had proved very elusive on a previous visit.
Total UK Species in March 2022: 99New “Year Ticks” in March 2022: 9New “Life Ticks” in March 2022: 0 March of last year saw us entirely confined to our garden as a result of the pandemic We only saw one new species for the year and total of seventeen species for the year to the…
The birding group schedule agreed was: 19 April Burton 26 April Pennington 3 May Moore 10 May Leighton Moss 17 May Martinmere 24 May Goyt Valley 31 May Macclesfield Forest 7 June Burton 14 /15 June Bempton 21 June Marbury
The last birding group outing of themonth was to Marbury Country Park on a fabulously sunny morning. We only managed to add Stock Dove and Treecreeper to our year list but we did get a nice range of birds and clocked up thirty-five species for the day.
Woolston Eyes had been closed for a long time because of the pandemic so we were glad to be able to get back there and get our annual Black-necked Grebe experience. As it happened there were very few on show for us and we nly managed to get one pair.
