Birding Group Visit to RSPB Burton Mere Wetland 18th June 2012 Our birding group day out this week was on a Monday rather than a Tuesday and this was to match up with the high tide which should push more birds onto the reserve. As it happens there has been so much rain recently that…
Birding Group Visit to Goyt Valley 12th June 2012 Our morning outing today was to the Goyt Valley which is located between Macclesfield and Buxton in the Peak District National Park. The valley is close to the Cheshire and Derbyshire county border. The River Goyt that flows through the valley rises high on Axe Edge…
Summary May 2012 Garden The start of May saw a little improvement in the weather as some of the heavy rain stopped. On 3rd May we saw a newly fledged Dunnock pecking around trying out various things to see if they were edible. By the end of our holiday mid-month we saw our first –…
Visit to Cemlyn Bay, Anglesey, Wales 30th May 2012 After our couple of days with the birding group we wanted to stay another day and go to Cemlyn Bay again and perhaps a few other places. It wasn’t to be quite that way in the end but we had a good start when we revisited…
Birding Group Visit to Wales 29th May 2012 : RSPB South Stack By the time we had finished with the Fish Dock and Soldiers Point in Holyhead and got back on the South Stack Road it was already about 11am and about ten minutes after that we rolled into the car park at South Stack…
Birding Group Visit to Wales 29th May 2012 : The Fish Dock and Soldiers Point, Holyhead The Fish Dock After the birding group had finished eating the night before, Anne and I thought we would try to see if we could find the Fish Dock at Holyhead Harbour which was just over the road a…
Birding Group Visit to Wales 28th May 2012 : Cemlyn Bay From Spinnies Abergowen we drove to Cemlyn Bay on Anglesey. On our way there we saw both Buzzard and Kestrel (and sometimes Buzzards hovering just like Kestrels – most unusual). We parked at the Bryn Aber end of the bay (which is sometimes cut…
Birding Group Visit to Wales 28th May 2012 : Spinnies Aberogwen We parked at the car park for The Spinnies Aberogwen Nature Reserve and we walked along the shingle beach (look out for the tide) where we saw a single Curlew and a few Sand Martins. At the hide that overlooks the bay (Traeth Lafan)…
Birding Group Visit to Wales 28th May 2012 : RSPB Conwy The last birding group day out was a two-day affair involving visits to RSPB Conwy, the North Wales Wildlife Trust reserve, Spinnies Aberogwen near Tal-y-bont, Cemlyn Bay and RSPB South Stack on Anglesey. The three cars had differing starting points so we all met…
Birding Group Visit to Moore and Moss Side Nature Reserves 22nd May 2012 After missing a couple of the birding group mornings as a result of being on holiday it was good to get back with the group and our morning was at Moore Nature Reserve. The last time we were there as a group…
