We started out on the 26th with a visit to Rutland Water. Our first stop was the Egleton Visitor Centre where we did a straight march to Lagoon 4 first visiting the Sandpiper Hide and then the Plover Hide. At Lagoon 4 we got Avocet, Ringed Plover and Bar-tailed Godwit etc. From there we worked…
2019 Birding Group Spring/ Summer Schedule April 30 Pennington May 7 Macclesfield Forest May 14 Martin Mere and Mere Sands Wood May 21 Goyt Valley May 28 Burton June 3-4, Blacktoft, North Cave, Bempton June 11 Moore (W) June 18 Conway/north Wales June 25 Wigan Flashes July 2 Marbury + planning lunch
The birding group had a morning at Moore Nature Reserve followed by a lunchtime planning session for the next “term”. Although it was a relatively short morning we did manage to get some good birds with “year tick” Goldcrests and plenty of Treecreepers and Nuthatches. No Lesser SPotted Woodpeckers, though, just GSW and a heard…
Bird Sightings Leosowe Lighthouse 15th April 2019 We had a solo day out on the Wirral on the 15th, starting out looking for migrants at Leosowe Lighthouse. Unfortunately the wind was so strong that all the dust was blowing up from the car park and made hard work of my contact lenses. We tried to…
We only had four of us for the birding group visit to RSPB Leighton Moss on 9th April 2019 but we had a most fantastic day with good weather and lots of birds including a number of year ticks and a life tick as well.
The first birding group outing of the month was to Brockholes near Preston, a site we have not been to in quite a while. It was still abit early in the year so we were not sure quite what we would find there. What we did find included some late-staying Fieldfares and the first Sand…
March 2019 : Summary UK Species Year List to March: 107 Total UK Species in March: 73 New “Year Ticks” in March: 4 New “Life Ticks” in March: 0
Our last birding outing of the month was a solo affair and again featured Burton Mere Wetlands. We were rather hoping that we could see the Long-tailed Duck that has been there. Also we wanted to check out the walk from Denhall Lane, past Net’s Cafe and on to the Denhall Quay and The Harp…
The last birding group day of the month was supposed to be to Brockholes but it turned out not to be open yet, according to one of our group, so we opted for Pennington Flash again. It was a nice enough day but windy in every hide. Nothing special was seen.
I missed the birding group visit to Neumann’s Flash on the 12th March due to bad weather but I did manage to get to the one on the 19th to Flint. Unfortunately there wasn’t a lot there and we had to wait a couple of hours for the tide to recede and a few, common,…
