We had a nice morning out on a beautiful sunny day – unbelievable for February but we have had a few recently. We had a year tick Green Sandpiper and Tree Sparrow and Common Snipe were more regular ticks, but still first for the year. A nice group of male and female Goosanders were colourful…
We have been planning an overnight visit to Parkgate so we could get the chance to see the birds of prey coming into the overnight roost at Neston. WIth a high tide of 10.12 metres at 12:20pm we thought that if we stayed over we could get two high tides at Parkgate and the evening…
The birding group visit for 19th February was to Hoylake and New Brighton for the high-ish tide of 9.6 metres at 10:48pm but this left us time to add on a visit to Parkgate after those two places and this gave us probably the best one hour of raptor watching we have ever had.
We saw on Birdguides that the Blythe’s Reed Warbler thathas been around at Hope Carr Nature Reserve had been showing early in the day on the perimiter fence at the sewage works at the end of Hope Carr Terrace. It has been around for a while and we tried to see it the previous Tuesday…
We were supposed to go to Frodsham with the birding group on the 12th but they decided they were going to park on the motorway bridge and walk from there. Several people opted out of this for their own reasons but I just thought that there wasn’t much likelihood of seeing anything much there that…
In a two hour walk around Sale Water Park (4 miles in 2 hours !!) I managed to encounter three professional dog walkers with between 6 and 8 dogs each and in total around 60-70 dogs during that 2 hour period; two of these jumped up on me and the second of these led to…
The first birding group trip for us in a while was supposed to be North Wales but the recent poor weather sent us, instead, to Pennington Flash where, surprisingly enough, it was actually quite mild with no wind to add the generally low temperatures. As usual for Pennington there was a good variety of birds…
January 2019 : Summary UK Species Year List to January: 72 Total UK Species in January: 72 New “Year Ticks” in January: 72 New “Life Ticks” in January: 0
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…
