With a break in the recent (but much needed) rain, we headed out to the Goyt valley. We are planning to go here later in the month but with a lot of the hides still closed at reserves this seemed like a good option for a bit of exercise. When we go with the birding…
We went up to Hoylake for a high tide of 9.9 metres at Noon but, even though we were there a good hour before, the tide was all the way in when we got there. There was still some sand but lots of dog walkers and no birds at all except the odd Cormorant or…
Our first birding day out for six whole months was on the 22nd April when we went to Burton Mere Wetlands and then on to the Old Quay at Neston. BMW was still very limited with no hides open and even the mound they had made for observing the scrape had been closed off because…
Covid continued with a vengeance into 2021 and from January to March the only birding we did was back garden birding which features the usual suspects. The only notable events were the appearance of a pair of Grey Wagtails that showed up on the 6th and became very attached to the meal worms I am…
Total number of species seen in 2020 : 108 !!Total Life Ticks in 2020 – NONE!! 2020 – The first year of Covid. Fortunately for us, we managed to get our annual winter holiday in Lanzarote. The sightings are summarised here. This was a blessing because it was not too long before the Covid pandemic…
We went to Tatton Park, principally to look over the gardens but I managed to get a little bird-watching in, both round the gardens and then, after a short walk, down at the meres. It wasn’t a great birding day but, such is the current Covid 19 situation, I still managed to get a couple…
A promising day weather-wise took us up to Burton Mere Wetlands- again – and it turned out to be a lovely sunny day with some nice birds and a couple of new parts of the site had opened up since our last visit on 29th September.
September marked the return to some kind of non back garden birding for us as the Covid 19 restrictions on travel were eased. A lot of the reserves we go to still have their hides closed as at Burton but some have opened them as at Martin Mere. Either way there are still restrictions in…
Our last birding day out of September was again to Burton Mere Wetlands. We started off walking to the new elevated viewing platform getting a year-tick Cetti’s Warbler on the way. On the scrape were a group of five Egyptian Geese and a single Whooper Swan- another year tick. Unfortunately I couldn’t get my scope…
We ventured further afield that the Wirral this week and pre-booked (as you have to now) a visit to WWT Martin Mere. It was a very different experience to our usual visits there but it was a nice day and we got a few decent birds.
