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.
We went to the Wirral again on the 18thfor a high tide of 9.9 metres at 12:30pm. It was a beautiful day and totally still which is rare for Hoylake which is where we started. It must have been the lack of an onshore wind that caused the tide to stay out so much. It…
We ventured out on the 16th to Brockholes to pick up my scope which had been repaired by Swarovski but we didn’t do too much bird watching. It was totally different to our last visit. The children are back in school and a lot of people are back at work so it was a lot…
Our first visit to RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands since 10th March was such a pleasure. Just to be outside but not in your own garden reminded you of how much you normally take for granted. It was a beautiful, sunny, day so it felt like quite a treat. We even managed to see some Curlew…
