We went up to the Wirral on the 28th for a high tide of 9.7 metres at 1:47pm. It wasn’t one of the “spectaculars” that are possible there but it was a nice day and there were small numbers of Dunlin, Sanderling and Ringed Plover around and a single, breeding plumage, Grey Plover. Our viewing…
I had been looking forward to the birding group visit to the Goyt Valley for a while now. It is always good for at least some good year ticks and is sometimes exceptionally good. This time it was exceptionally good though we did not get all out target species.
A visit to Burton Mere Wetlands to try to see the Buff-breasted Sandpiper that had been reported there over the weekend turned out to be a “wild goose chase” as it had already flown off on the Sunday night. Be that as it may, it was a nice day and we did manage to see…
After our holiday in Suffolk and Norfolk, this was the first birding group we could make in May. In fact there were only half of us there because of various holidays. It was avtually rather disappointing. Two of our group caught sight of a Bearded Tit but none of the others did. In fact there…
The following is a summary of our holiday spent near Rutland Water, Halesworth in Suffolk and Thornham in Norfolk. The two weeks allowed us to visit lots of different reserves and habitats and perhaps the best of these were RSPB Minsmere and Titchwell but also we very much liked NWT Holme Dunes and, at Rutland…
We left our rented cottage in Thornham this morning but instead of going straight home we took the opportunity to go to Rutland Water again. We only went to the Egleton centre and started off going down to the Bittern Hide area where we immediately encountered a Nightingale hopping around in the vegetation at the…
The last day in Norfolk before we set back off northwards the following morning was really just going to be a casual day a couple of practical things we had to do and also giving Anne a chance to drop in at the Lavender Farm nearby but still managed to get a little bit of…
Holmes Dunes NWT A break in the weather meant we at last had a nice sunny day so we hoped that more birds would be showing and that proved to be the case. We headed off the Holme Dunes NWT reserve and because we were there before opening time, we could not get past the…
This day we decided to go to Santon Downham near Thetford Forest with the aim of possibly finding some woodland or heathland birds. At the Forestry Commission office we picked up some maps and a helpful ranger suggested we go back down the road we had come down until we reached marker 21 (which was…
Titchwell RSPB We booked on a guided bird walk around he reserve where they hope to see 70 species in three hours or so. We met up with Colin just before 10 am and it transpired that we were the only two people booked for the walk. Colin had just come back from a birding…
