November 2018 Summary
November 2018 : Summary UK Species Year List to November : 171 Total UK Species in November : 77 New “Year Ticks” in November : 2 New “Life Ticks” in November : 1
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Birding Group Burton Mere Wetlands : 27th November 2018
The last birding group outing of November was meant to be a trip down the Welsh coast but the weather was so bad that we changed it to Burton. Even then there were only five of us turned out due to a poor weather forecast which was a shame because we got some good sightings…
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Velvet Scoter at High Rid Reservoir near Bolton 25th November 2018
Anne suggested that we did something the next day, which was a Sunday morning, so I looked at Bird Guides and saw that there had been a Velvet Scoter on High Rid reservoir near Bolton, only about a 20 minute drive away. A quick Google of Pete Hines Youtube channel brought up a video of…
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Birding Group Visit to Pennington Flash : 13th November 2018
The birding group day that was set for Frodsham morphed into a day at PEnnington which was pretty good with a nice number of birds but nothing particularly outstanding. As usual for Pennington, though, good numbers of species and a good morning out and about.
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Wirral High Tide : 11th November 2018
It was the 11th of the month before we got out birding and that was a trip up to the Wirral where, although the high tide was very modest on paper at 9.7m or thereabouts, the tide seemed to come a long way in and we got some good views of the usual suspects but…
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October 2018 : Summary
October 2018 : Summary UK Species Year List to October : 168 Total UK Species in October : 71 New “Year Ticks” in October : 1 New “Life Ticks” in October : 1
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Birding Group : Sandbach Flashes 30th October 2018
The last birding group outing of October was to Sandbach Flashes. I wasn’t really expecting much but it turned out to be quite a good morning and the weather was a little milder than recently when it has been quite frosty. In total we managed forty-one species, including a couple of birds of prey, some…
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Burton Mere Wetlands and Riverbank Road : 28th October 2018
After the excitement of the Rose-coloured Starling at St. Helens, I suppose that Burton was going to be a bit of a let down but we just had an hour so we looked around on the main scrape and down at the barn then we went to the first blind where a Bearded Tit had…
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Rose-Coloured Starling Life Tick at St. Helens : 28th October 2018
We had a spare day available to us and thought we would go up to the Wirrall for a slightly high tide to see if we could get any raptors. High tide wasn’t until around 1pm however, so we thought we would take a punt at looking for a juvenile Rose-coloured Starling (or Rosy Starling)…
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Birding Group Visit to Old Moor Nature Reserve : 23rd October 2018
The second birding group outing that I could make in October was the longer trip out over the moors to Old Moor RSPB reserve. The day was very windy and this did for any idea we might see any Bearded Tits. In fact it rather did for seeing any small birds so we were left…