Scotland Trip Day 1 : Loch of the Lowes : 26th May 2014 We started our holiday to Scotland by driving up to Kippen, north of Stirling, where we stayed overnight. The next day we drove from Kippen to the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s reserve at Loch of the Lowes near Dunkeld arriving there around 11.30…
Ring Ouzels at Cat and Fiddle 20th May 2014 After our morning at Goyt Valley with the birding group our small select group of “lunchers” stopped off for some lunch at the Cat and Fiddle – it only had one beer on pump and one in bottle. The pump beer was a blonde beer called…
Birding Group Visit to the Upper Goyt Valley 20th May 2014 We had been to Macclesfield Forest, which is quite close by, two weeks previously and not seen a great deal. This visit to the area was an entirely different kettle of fish. We parked up at the second car park near the southern end…
Birding Group Visit to RSPB Conwy and the Conwy Estuary 13th May 2014 The birding group visit to RSPB Conwy was a little lacking in spectacle, unless you are into Sedge Warblers in which case this was thest place in the world to be. The entire site seemed to be full of Sedge Warblers flying…
Birding Group Visit to Macclesfield Forest 6th May 2014 The first birding group morning of the month was to Macclesfield Forest and we had hopes for Flycatchers and Redstarts. We were rather disappointed in this and generally speaking it was a bit of a flop – except that it was a nice day for a…
Summary : April 2014 Garden The garden started to perk up at the start of the month as the Blackbirds and Tits seemed to have young to feed already. Our Dunnock sings from 4.30am onwards pretty much all day. We have had three Goldfinches at most which is a terrible decline from previous years but…
Keyhaven : 1st May 2014 Our last day in the New Forest was given over to a visit to the coast to get some birds we had not seen yet. Our first port of call was Keyhaven where we checked out the times of the ferry to Hurst Castle which is at the end of…
Bolderwood, Fritham and Beaulieu Road Station: 30th April 2014 We started early (for us) again this morning and were on our way by 8am. We drove up to Bolderwood and parked in the car park there before taking the path down to the cottage, crossing over the road and taking one of the paths that…
Beaulieu Road Station / Shatterford : 29th April 2014 For our first full day in the New Forest we decided on two main sites. The first was the walk from Beaulieu Road Station down past Bishop’s Dyke and then into the woods At Woodfidley, turning right an walking through the woods as far as Denny…
Blashford Lakes : 28th April 2014 We left Montacute on the morning of the 28th and did the drive through Sherborne, Sixpenny Handley and Cranborne, stopping for breakfast at Fordinbridge. From there we drove south to the Blashford Lakes complex. Finding where to go was complicated by the fact that the reserve has been asked…
