Birding Group Visit to Burton Mere Wetland and Inner Marsh Farm 17th September 2012 The Second date of the new birding term for our group was to Burton Mere Wetlands. In the main hide we could see a large number of Greylag and Canada Geese. There were high numbers of Lapwing around thirty Black-tailed Godwits….
Open Day at Rostherne Mere 15 September 2012 We attended an open day at Rostherne Mere nature reserve organised by Natural England. and CAWOS (The Cheshire and Wirral Ornithological Society). This was to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Boyd Observatory. We had been to Rostherne Mere before but the hide is…
Birding Group Visit to Pennington Flash 11th September 2012 This was the first day of the new term for the birding group and there was quite a good attendance. The weather was very changeable and when we first arrived it started to rain and stayed that way on and off for the rest of the…
Summary August 2012 Garden August started with some really sunny weather which was pleasant but it being August the birds are hiding away moulting. The numbers of Goldfinches have increased considerably with the addition of this years cohort. By the middle of the month some of them were starting to moult into their adult plumage…
Day Out to WWT Martin Mere 18th August 2012 A look at the weather forecast for Burscough suggested a fine day and with the weather being so changeable this month we thought we should drive out to Martin Mere WWT for the day. I was encouraged but recent reports on their web site that there…
Visit to Flamborough Head and Bempton Cliffs : 5th August 2012 For our second day on the east coast we took a drive out to the lighthouse at Flamborough Head and had a walk around the bay there which was very interesting and we could hear a number of small birds among the grass and…
Visit to Bempton Cliffs : 5th August 2012 Anne and I decided to go away for our 6th anniversary and since it was on our minds to try to get over to RSPB Bempton Cliffs one of these days we decided that this would be a good opportunity. We drove over eastwards and as we…
Visit to Moore Nature Reserve : 3rd August 2012 The weather has been pretty poor so when it looked like we had a window of opportunity we jumped at it and went out to Moore Nature Reserve for a walk. Often we walk through Rigby’s Wood and on to Middle Moss Wood and Birchwood Pool…
Summary July 2012 Garden The awful weather continued into July as all records for rainfall in the UK were broken. Thankfully we were on holiday on Mull from the 7th – 17th where, contrary to the rest of the country, the weather was beautiful. Details of this holiday can be seen below but suffice it…
Scotland Holiday Day 11 : 16th July 2012 : Isle of May / Bass Rock On the Sunday we spent the day doing family visits and so on in Edinburgh and Musselburgh but we added an additional day onto our holiday so that I could have a chance to take a boat trip out to…
