We had a brief trip down south to visit friends and family and our first stop was near Oxford so this gave us the chance to go to RSPB Otmoor reserve. It was a fine, dry day and quite warm so we had high hopes of perhaps getting Turtle Doves and Lesser Whitethroats. We saw…
The first day on the new birding group “term” saw us go to Neumann’s Flash on a day that threatened rain but we managed to “duck” it nicely. Although there weren’t impressive numbers of birds, we got some nice spring arrivals including my first Sand AMrtin of the year.
After a sunny day we were hopeful of a another one the following day when we decided to go up to the Wirral and visit some of the sites we rarely visit. Thes first stop was Leosowe Lighthouse but it was so windy and there tide was so far out that we soon abandoned that…
Birding Group Schedule Spring 2018
March 2018: Summary UK Species Year List to March: 98 Total UK Species in March: 49 New “Year Ticks” in March: 6 New “Life Ticks” in March: 0
We managed to fit in a visit to Burton Mere Wetlands on the last day of the month and it managed to keep dry giving us a chance to get around most of the site. We were immediately rewarded with two Mediterranean Gulls on the main scrape which was a good year tick. The…
Most of our March had been filled with our holiday in America but we managed to get back into the birding group Tuesdays for the last date of the term which was to Moore Nature Reserve. We ran in to the warden in the car park and she toild us theat three Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers…
Our American holiday this year took us to San Diego, Big Island, Maui and San Francisco. San Diego In San Diego we found a rather splendid site at Imperial Beach, San Diego Bay. We actually ran into a few birders who were looking for a (locally rare) Flamingo. They gave us some pointers and…
February 2018 Summary UK Species Year List to February: 92 Total UK Species in February: 82 New “Year Ticks” in February: 24 New “Life Ticks” in February: 0
