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,…
We had a birding group day lined up to be for RSPB Leighton Moss but reports on their web site and also by worl of mouth suggested that large parts of the reserve were under water so we decided to swop over to WWT Martin Mere where we had a reasonable day and good weather.
As well as the birds we saw at Brazo Del Este, we also got a few other birds in Seville and Cadiz so the following is the grand total of our Spanish holiday – 66 species including 9 lifers and numerous year ticks
We holidayed in Spain for two weeks – one week in Seville and a second week in Cadiz. Although we were not on a birding holiday we did manage to fit in a six hour session with a guide that we found online. The company was Doñana Wings and our guide was Vicent Esteller, the…
September 2019 : Summary UK Species Year List to September : 181Total UK Species in September : 89New “Year Ticks” in September : 4New “Life Ticks” in September : 0
The last birding group day of the month was left open for a decision nearer the time. The weather was predicted to be quite bad so a lot of people were put off but five of us took the risk and the risk was well rewarded with a good year tick and some great early…
On the 17th we went to Burton Mere Wetlands with the birding group followed by a quick stop at Parkgate. It turned out to be a nice day in the end and we managed to get a couple of Little Stints pretty much straight away – a nice year tick for us – but we…
The first birding group morning of the Autumn term was to Pennington Flash where, although it was generally quite quiet, we still managed to get thirty-four species and it turned out to be quite a sunny morning after a little rain to start with.
