A break in the wet weather gave us a chance to get out to Chorlton Water Park and Kenworthy Woods. It has been a long time since we hace gone over there, preferring to go further afield for less common birds. It was well overdue for us to visit the water park so we drove…
Total UK Species in January : 85 New “Year Ticks” in January : 85 New “Life Ticks” in January : 0
The fist birding group date we could make in January was to Pennington Flash on the last day of the month. It started off a little wet but soon dried up. It wasn’t even all that windy ! The main attractions were the possibility of seeing the Long-tailed Duck we had seen last year…
The sad loss of a very good friend took us to Portugal for her funeral. We were in Lagos between 15th – 19th January. The unhappiness of the occasion was soothed a little by the odd couple of hours birding that I managed to fit it. It was a bit of relief from the intense…
An expected dry day before some very stormy weather was an opportunity to add to my 2017 year list with the reports of a drake Red-crested Pochard and a redhead Smew at Newchurch Common. As before, we parked at the end of Novscotia Lane and walked down the track rather grandiosely named Overdale Lane.
With Christmas and New Year over we decided to take advantage of some dry weather to get out to North Wales to see if we could get our year list off to a good start. Last year we both had colds so we got off to a slow start. Not this year!
Summary 2016 I had decided that 2016 was going to be a good birding year for me and I set myself the target of seeing 200 birds in the UK by the end of the year. To this end I had arranged some holidays that would help us get the less common birds.
Summary December 2016 Species this month =94 New Species added to 2016 Year List in December= 4 Waxwings at St Asaph 14 & 15, Hawfinch at Llanbedr-y-Cennin 30th, Black-throated Thrush at St Asaph 30th, Chough at South Stack 30th New UK Life List Birds In December= 1 Black-throated Thrush at St Asaph 30th Running Total…
Wales Day Out : Species Nos 197 – 200 : 30th December 2016 Last week I happened to mention to Merynn that I was on 197 species in the UK for the year and that I would really like to get three more to get to the 200 mark by the end of the year….
Wales Break : Waxwings and Winter Thrushes : 14 – 16 December 2016
