Covehithe 5th May 2016 Thursday was not a “birding day” for us as we had arranged to meet friends for a walk to the coast at Covehithe and then a spot of lunch at Southwold. Even then, though, we still managed to see plenty of birds and even added a few “year ticks” to our…
Weeting Heath NWT 4th May 2016 Weeting Heath is known as one of the most – if not the most – reliable places to see Stone Curlew and they did have them on site and even had a live video feed of one on a nest. Unfortunately the nest was over the hill from the…
RSPB Minsmere 3rd May 2016 The 3rd was reserved solely for a visit to RSPB Minsmere which we had been to a couple of years before but then we didn’t have a full day free so we were a little bit limited in what we could do. This time we took two of the major…
Lakenheath Fen 2nd May 2016 We drove from Wicken Fen to Lakenheath Fen as part of our Peterborough to Halesworth journey. The afternoon had started to look a bit gloomy but we felt we had a fair chance of getting to the first hide and back before the rain fell. It was a bit of…
Wicken Fen 2nd May 2016 Having recently finished rereading a book based on a long – term study of Cuckoos at Wicken Fen, Cuckoos : Cheating By Nature by Nick Davies, I was interested to see this – the oldest – National Trust site. Unfortunately it was a bank holiday and the reserve was heaving…
Rutland Water 1st May 2016
Summary April 2016 Species this month = 88 New Species added to 2016 Year List in April = 15 Sand Martins and House Martins at Moore on the 5th, Brent Goose, Common Eider and Wheatear at Riverbank Road on the 8th and Black-necked Grebe at Woolston Eyes also on the 8th. Our first Swallow at…
Leighton Moss RSPB : 26th April 2016 The last birding group day of the month (and our last until we are back from holiday in Norfork etc.) was to Leighton Moss. The day started badly with three different traffic jams that meant that our joutrney there took two hours. When we got there, it was…
Red Rocks, Neston Old Quay and Burton Mere Wetlands : 22nd April 2016 WIth a good day predicted and a 9 metre high tide due at Noon we decided on another visit to the Wirral. Expecting that a, none too impressive, 9 metre tide would’t do much anywhere except Hoylake we decided to go up…
Wigan Flashes : 19th April 2016 The last two times the birding group have been scheduled for Wigan Flashes, it has have to be called off due to bad weather. Nothing could have been further from the truth on this day and, with a beautiful blue sky above, the birds were out and Spring had…
