Summary : February 2014 Garden A very quiet month in the garden. Lots of rain although not as much as the record-breaking flooding in the south of England ! This is going to damage a large number of nature reserves in Somerset at Devon and other areas afflicted by the flooding. Birding Days Out On…
Birding Group Visit to Carsington Water : 25th February 2014 Carsington Water was a first for me although the birding group have been there before. On the down side, although the distance isn’t too great, the roads are so slow that it took us two hours to get there. As it happens it was well…
Birding Group Visit to Marbury Park : 18th February 2014 We missed the previous weeks birding group visit which was supposed to be to Neumann’s Flash but I believe the weather and a few other cancellations led to the few remaining people able to go, calling it off after sitting in a car for fifteen…
Birding Group Visit to Pensarn : 4th February 2014 After the birding group visit to RSPB Conwy we were going to go to Llandullas but I suggested that Pensarn might be a better place to go. This was perhaps not the best choice for those without scopes because we ended up mainly sea watching even…
Birding Group Visit to RSPB Conwy : 4th February 2014 The birding group date this week was for a full-ish day at RSPB Conwy. We met up in the cafe at 10.30am and after a quick cup of tea we were off. It was a fairly pleasant day with some bright sunny periods. Initial…
High Tide at Parkgate : 2nd February 2014 Whenever we can we try to get to Parkgate for a high tide. This was a Sunday, the highest tide of the period and also a nice day – a guarantee that the place would be heaving with people and indeed it was. Despite getting there two…
Summary : January 2014 Garden The start of the year saw some improvement in the number of birds int he garden and we started to see small numbers of Goldfinch, Blue, Great and Coal Tits; a single Dunnock and Robin, some Blackbirds and some House Sparrows. A particular pleasure was the presence of a flock…
Birding Group Visit : Pennington Flash : 28th January 2014 The first birding group date of the year that I could turn out for was the visit to Pennington Flash. It had been scheduled to be Redesmere but, as ever with Redesmere, it was changed to Pennington due to the wet weather. However, a new…
Big Garden Birdwatch : 26 January 2014 It seems a long time since you could sit down and make a good list of birds in your garden during a sixty minute period. Last year was a total blank and this year was not a lot better though we did get a couple of nice ticks….
Parkgate High Tide : 4 Jan 2014 Our first outing of the year after the Christmas and New Year period was to Parkgate where there was due to be a high tide (10.1 metres) due at 1pm. We got there by 11.20am but all the parking spaces on the upper level of the old baths…
