We managed to avoid some of the worst January weather in Manchester by going to Lanzarote for ten days from the 13th January. We stayed in Playa Blanca at the Princessa Yaiza hotel as usual and as well as our usual visit to the Salinas de Janubio, we also had another guided morning (well about…
A moderately high-ish tide of 9.06 metres at 12:25 pm took us up to the Wirral again. We were obviously going to be a bit early if we left at our usual 9am, so we left at 9.15 and thought it was worth trying New Brighton Marine Lake to see if we could find any…
A tip from Birdguides took us to Hulme looking for Waxwings. At first “all” we saw was a lvery large (100+) flock of Redwing in all the treese around the bridge that goes over Princess Road next to The Brooks Building at the University but after a short wait a flock of around ten Waxwings…
We didn’t get out on the first day of the year but we did manage the 2nd and we were in need of some exercise and fresh air after Christmas and New Year. With a dry, clear and cold day we thought a trip uo to Parkgate would be a good chance to try for…
Annual Summary 173 Species of Birds Seen In UK in 2018 UK Life Ticks in 2018 Iceland Gull in Tobermory Harbour on 23rd June Bonaparte’s Gull at Hoylake 14th August Rose-coloured Starling, St Helens 28th October 2018 Velvet Scoter on High Rid Reservoir near Bolton on 25th November 2018
December 2018 : Summary UK Species Year List to December: 173 Total UK Species in December: 66 New “Year Ticks” in December: 2 New “Life Ticks” in December: 0
The last birding day of the year for us was on the 30th. A succession of ilnesses and colds over the festive period had seriously curtailed our birding chances – which seems to happen every December. Be that as it may we managed to get out just before the close of the year but…
Jan 15: Burton Mere Wetlands Jan 22: Riverbank Road, Heswall followed by Denhall Quay (High Tide 11.50) Jan 29: Hilbre (Low Tide at noon)
The birding group outing on the 4th December was to WWT Martin Mere. We wanted to set off early because we were due to have a planning meeting after our morning bird watching. Accordingly we set off about 8:15am instead of our usual 9am. Google maps was showing that the M6 was at a standstill…
Although the weather reports for the Wirral were poor, we decided to risk the weather to have a go at finding the Great Northern Diver seen recently on West Kirby Marine Lake. We knew that on a Sunday it might be busy but we had forgotten that the tide was as far out as it…
