Summary : July 2014 Birding Days Out Birding in general this month has largely been determined for us by weather and visitors. We have had visits from two sets of friends who do not live in Britain and they are not particularly birders so we have been either preparing for them or attending to them…
Recce of Heswall Bank : 30th July 2014 When we left Burton Mere Wetland we decided to do a little recce of Heswall Bank which I had been curious about. I had read an article on the internet on Heswall Bank which also had a very good hand-drawn map of the area from a birding…
Spotted Crakes at Burton Mere Wetlands : 30th July 2014 On the 30th of July we went to RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands in search of the Spotted Crakes that have been seen there recently. We asked at the reception hide whether they had been seen (It seems that there are two pairs with chick/s there)…
Craster : 3rd July 2014 Our third and last day on the Northumberland coast was reserved for non-bird watching activities but we still managed to have a little bit of birding in the village of Craster where we stopped for lunch at The Jolly Fisherman restaurant where we sat on the balcony in the sunshine…
Druridge Bay Sites : 2nd July 2014 After our boat trip yesterday had failed to give us close views of Roseate Terns we thought we would try our luck at a few of the sites along the coast. We started out at Hauxley Nature Reserve
Roseate Terns at Coquet Island : 1st July 2014 On the first day of July we drove over to the Northumberland coast where we were staying for a few days at the Warkworth House Hotel in Warkworth, just north of Amble. We were taking a few days away but the main reason for choosing the…
Summary : June 2014 Garden The garden continued to be full of young birds with juvenile Robins and a juvenile Blackbird visiting the bird table. Lots of Blue Tit young and lesser numbers of Great Tit young are on the feeders and the window box. The Dunnocks are less obvious but are around. The Sparrows…
Birding Group Schedule Autumn 2014 23-Sep-14 Burton Mere Wetlands 30-Sep-14 Pennington Flash 07-Oct-14 Leosowe / Heswall (high tide approx 10.50am) 14-Oct-14 Leighton Moss 21-Oct-14 Neumann’s Flash / Marbury 28-Oct-14 Llanfairfechan / Conwy (high tide approx 13.00pm) 04-Nov-14 Tatton Park 11-Nov-14 Frodsham (low tide approx 08.45am) 18-Nov-14 Sandbach Flashes 25-Nov-14 Hoylake / Thurstaton C.P….
Birding Group Visit to Brockholes : 24th June 2014 We started off with a quick look at the Meadow Lake from the visitor centre. There were Swallows and Sand Martins flying overhead in good numbers and on the islands there were Oystercatchers, Canada Geese and Mute Swans. A small group of Cormorants collected at the…
Red-necked Grebe at Frodsham Marsh : 17th June 2014 As it happened we felt that after the birding group had finished at Moore we had time to pop down to Frodsham Marshes where a Red-necked Grebe had been loitering for more than a week. It was only about twenty minutes out of our way so…
