The first birding group outing we were able to attend after our holiday in Lanzarote and the subsequent business getting back into a domestic routine was to the Wirral for a high tide of 9.8m at 12:12pm. Although 9.8 metres doesn’t seem that much, from bitter experience we know that that can mean nothing when…
Another January, another visit to Lanzarote but this time it was a very different island to the one we have seen for the last ten or eleven years we have been visiting in winter. As a result of a rare, very wet winter that had already seen two Atlantic storms by the 15th of January, the whole island was transformed and was carpeted in green with yellow and blue flowers adorning what looked like huge meadows.
Unfortunately 2025 was a fairly quiet year for us on the birding front; health issues and weather combined to reduce our outings. It wasn’t a particularly good year for high tides either, with then coming either too late in the day or too low to be of much value. So, for the year in total…
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The 9th of December was our last birding group morning out before Christmas and we chose to go to Moore Nature Reserve. It was a very inauspicious weather forecast but, in fact, it wasn’t too bad.
On 2nd December the birding group went to Leosowe and Parkgate. We started out by walking from the car park along the promenade in the direction of Meols and Hoylake. The tide was a long way out but we got three Turnstones and some Little Egrets close in and, with a scope, you could you…
The last birding group trip for November was to WWT Martin Mere. It was a nice, dry day with great visibility. There was perhaps a lack of birds at some of the hides but we still managed to get 41 species and two year ticks.
The highlight of the month, and perhaps the year, was a visit to Leosowe Lighthouse on the 13th November 2025. We got a life tick and two year ticks on a dry, windless sunny day at the Leosowe horse paddocks and on the promenade there.
