Visit to Flamborough Cliffs: 8th August 2013 We stayed at the North Star Hotel in Flamborough on the night of the 7th and rose early on the morning of the 8th for an early breakfast and an early (for us) walk along Flamborough Cliffs on an incredibly hot and sunny morning. In fact the temperatures…
Visit to RSPB Bempton Cliffs : 7th August 2013 On the second day of our visit to Yorkshire we spent the morning at Spurn before driving up to Flamborough where we were staying at the North Star Hotel. We checked in, had a quick sandwich and a drink and headed off to the RSPB site…
Visit to Spurn Head : 7th August 2013 On the second day of our visit to Yorkshire we actually got to the coast and we started off by visiting the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust reserve at Spurn Head. Everyone has heard of Spurn Head so we were really looking forward to this trip. We drove down…
Visit to North Cave Wetlands : 6th August 2013 Our visit to the Yorkshire coast involved a bit of a stay over in Hull so that we could have enough tome to fit in visits to the RSPB site at Blacktoft Sands and the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust site North Cave Wetlands. This is a continuously…
Visit to Blacktoft Sands : 6th August 2013 We went to the Yorkshire coast at this time of year last year but this time we decided to add in a couple of new sites for us. The first of these was the RSPB site at Blacktoft Sands which has featured on our birding group schedule…
Visit to Moore Nature Reserve : 1st August 2013 With the weather set to be a little uncertain for a few days we took the opportunity of a good forecast for the first of August to go out to Moore Nature Reserve. In particular I wanted to take a walk out to the farms at…
Summary July 2013 Garden July has turned out to be an absolutely scorching month with record temperatures and virtually no rain – the opposite of the first months of the year. We were away on holiday until the 12th and when we came back the garden was like a jungle. As regards birds, we are…
Sandpipers at RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands 26th July 2013 After being stuck at home with flu, it was nice to get out for the day and we chose Burton Mere because I had read that there had been sightings of a few Green Sandpipers and a single Wood Sandpiper. So with our hopes raised we…
Visit to RSPB Conwy : 19th July 2013 On our way back from Anglesey to Manchester we stopped off at The Spinnies, Aberogwen, near Tal-y-Bont and then went on to RSPB Conwy. It was another boiling hot day so we were glad of a tea break and a sit down before going round the reserve….
Visit to The Spinnies, Aberogwen : 19th July 2013 We visited South Stack, the Fish Harbour at Holyhead and Cemlyn Bay yesterday and we were wending our way back to Manchester slowly so we decided to take the Tal-y-Bont turning and drop in for a quick walk along the beach at the Spinnies Reserve. I…
