Mallorca Holiday 24th April 2015 : “Pollenca Back Lanes” We decided to do a bit of local birding as a warm up for the more distant sites that we meant to do later in our holiday. We plumped for the “Pollenca Back Lanes” tour mentioned in Dave Gosney’s book ““Finding Birds in Mallorca”. The walk…
Mallorca Holiday 23rd April 2015 : La Gola and Port de Pollenca We had visited Mallorca in October of 2014 (see here for summary of that trip) and were so impressed with the birding that we decided we just had to return for the spring migration when it is supposed to be inundated with birds….
Burton Mere Wetlands and Parkgate : 21 April 2015 We missed the first birding group outing of this term as a result of heavy colds and building work on the house so we were particularly pleased to eventually get out of the house and into the country. We had missed the birding group visit to…
Birding Group Schedule April – June 2015 14-Apr-15 Moore Nature Reserve 21-Apr-15 RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands 28-Apr-15 Pennington Flash 05-May-15 RSPB Leighton Moss 12-May-15 Macclesfield Forest 19-May-15 Goyt Valley 26-May-15 Neumann’s & Haydn’s Flashes 02-Jun-15 Brockholes 09-Jun-15 WWT Martin Mere 16-Jun-15 Rutland Water / Bridlington 23-Jun-15 Ethrow Country Park 30-Jun-15 TBC ( NB high tide…
Summary : March 2015 New Species added to 2015 Year List in March = 7 Running Total for the 2015 UK So Far = 101 New UK Life List Birds In March = 0 Our Garden March saw the garden alive with birds. A pair of Dunnocks and at least one pair of Robins are…
Birding Group Visit to RSPB Marshside : 31st March 2015 The last birding group day of the month – indeed of the term – was to RSPB Marshside. As usual it was blowing a gale so hard that it was hard not to get blown over. Although it wasn’t raining when we got out of…
RSPB Leighton Moss : 27th March 2015 After we left Sizergh we drove down to Leighton Moss RSPB reserve again, this time parking at the top of the causeway first and walking down to the public hide. The star attractions here were at least three Marsh Harriers and possibly more and a pair of Otters.
Hawfinch Watch at Sizergh Castle : 27th March 2015 We had last gone to Sizergh Castle for the Hawfinch Watch in early March 2012 and that had been very successful. There had been several cold winters, however, and the numbers of native birds had been boosted by foreign birds escaping the colder parts of Europe….
RSPB Leighton Moss : 26th March 2015 We decided to take a trip up to Sizergh Castle for a Hawfinch spotting morning and decided to throw in a couple of visits to Leighton Moss RSPB reserve. The last time we visited here in similar circumstances we had had three fantastic “life ticks” – a “redhead”…
Birding Group Visit to Frodsham Marsh : 24th March 2015 A fairly quiet day on the marshes. We started off at the usual path leading to the Weaver Bend. A fair number of species but numerically modest. A few Goldeneye could be found with a bit of effort and a small group including Gadwall, Teal…
