April 2022 Summary
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
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Pennington Flash 26th April 2022
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.
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Burton Mere Wetlands 19th April 2022
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…
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Burton Mere Wetlands 11 April 2022
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.
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Summary March 2022
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…
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Birding Group Schedule Spring-Summer 2022
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
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Marbury Country Park 29 March 2022
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.
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Woolston Eyes 24 March 2022
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.
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Burton Mere Wetlands and Connah’s Quay, 15th March 2022
On 15th March the birding group went to Burton Mere Wetlands. It was a very nice day and we had our eyes on the Long-tailed Duck which had been seen out by the Bridge Screen. We were not disappointed but it was frustratingly determined to stay above the water for as little time as possible.
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Summary February 2002
Total UK Species in February 2022: 68New “Year Ticks” in February 2022: 14New “Life Ticks” in February 2022: 0