The last birding group trip for November was to WWT Martin Mere. It was a nice, dry day with great visibility. There was perhaps a lack of birds at some of the hides but we still managed to get 41 species and two year ticks.
The highlight of the month, and perhaps the year, was a visit to Leosowe Lighthouse on the 13th November 2025. We got a life tick and two year ticks on a dry, windless sunny day at the Leosowe horse paddocks and on the promenade there.
The first birding group morning out was to Hoylake where there was supposed to be a high tide of 10 metres at 11:11am. This was only the second good high tide for a while so we changed the Tuesday slot when it would have been high tide at 9:52am to the following Thursday when we hoped that if we got there an hour before, we would be OK. Well, it didn’t quite work out that way but we still had a great day. Read on for more.
We had to go down to Bristol for the funeral of a friend so, to buck ourselves up a bit and to break up the return journey we stopped of at Slimbridge for an overnight stay that allowed us to get an afternoon visit one day and a morning visit the next day.
The first birding group outing of October was to RSPB Leighton Moss and, in a break from tradition, it was on a Thursday. This was chosen over the usual Tuesday was because the high tide would be at 1:15pm rather than 11:15am which would fit it better with us because we normally want to spend the fist couple of hours at the main reserve looking for Bearded Tits before going down to the sea hides.
Our last birding group visit of the month was to Burton Mere Wetlands on a lovely sunny day with fantastic visibility all the way over to the Welsh hills. There were plenty of ducks but not many species. We did get a year first bird, though.
The first birding group outing of the autumn 2025 year was a trip to Pennington Flash on a nice sunny day following some weeks of heavy rain. We didn’t see an awful lot but it was nice to get back into some birding after a long period off
