The first birding group outing of 2020 was to Pennington Flash. I wasn’t able to walk around the whole of the route due to my muscle injury but we still managed to get a decent number of birds but nothing particularly special. A nice day to get out and about though and Pennington was very…
UK Species Year List to December 2019 : 184Total UK Species in December 2019 : 71New “Year Ticks” in December 2019 : 4New “Life Ticks” in December 2019 : 0
Our last chance of the year to do some birding came on the 28th December when there was a moderately high tide on the Wirral – 9.24m at 12:19pm. We hoped that this would give us a little boost to our December monthly species list.
An unexpected funeral in Musselburgh just before Christmas saw us holed up at the Rockville Hotel in Joppa. This had the unexpected value of having rooms directly looking over the Firth of Forth. In fact they had tall windows that were hinged to open all the way inwards so you could sit in your room…
Jan 7: Pennington Jan 14: Burton Jan 21: Moore Jan 28: Sandbach
The last birding group outing before Christmas was to Burton Mere Wetlands. Because of my leg injury I couldn’t get far around the reserve but I had a pleasant enough couple of hours around the reception hide getting the usual birds and a surprise Merlin. After that we repaired to the Wheatsheaf at Neston for…
UK Species Year List to November : 181Total UK Species in November : 42New “Year Ticks” in November : 0New “Life Ticks” in November : 0 November was a bit of a washout birding-wise. I managed to do a birding group day out to RSPB Leighton Moss on the 5th but shortly after I had…
The first birding group outing of November was to RSPB Leighton Moss. As, ever, at this time of year, we were hoping for sightings of Bearded Tits and some of our group got good views of them from the grit trays. Unfortunately it did not cross anyones mind to call the others of the group…
October 2019 : Summary UK Species Year List to October : 181 Total UK Species in October : 64 (UK Only) New “Year Ticks” in October : 0 New “Life Ticks” in October : 0 Life ticks in October 2019 0 None Year ticks in October 2019 None
The last Tuesdayof the month for the birding group was a trip to the Wirral starting at Hoylake at 10 am for an 11:35am high tide of 9.89 metres. It wasn’t particularly high but there haven’t been that many recently, so we were looking forward to and – for once – it was a lovely,…
