March 2011 archive

Mar 29 2011

Birding Group Visit to Wigan Flashes 29th March 2011

We haven’t been able to go to many of the “WEA Birding Group” mornings out recently due to a combination of visiting relatives, being on holiday and having to go to London – all pleasant events but preventing us from going on the birding mornings. So it was nice to be able to attend again and it was a fine morning for it.

We started off at the parking spaces just outside Hawkley Hall School and walked around some of the smaller flashes until we got to the place where you have the middle of Scotman’s Flash on your left and Pearson’s Flash on your right and then returned to the parking spot. We were there from around 10am – 2pm and saw the following
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Mar 25 2011

Visit to London Wetland Centre – WWF Barnes 25th March 2011

Anne and I had arranged to go to London to attend a friend’s 60th birthday party so we decided to go a day early and visit the WWT centre at Barnes. We got the tube to Hammersmith and then a number 283 bus from Hammersmith bus station (stand K) which is just at the rear of the tube station and the bus took us all the way to the entrance so it was all very easy getting there. As it was a week-day it was quite quiet apart from lots of school children on group visits but these were largely confined to the conservation section and few ventured into the “wild” section. It was a gloriously sunny day but not too warm to be comfortable.

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Mar 10 2011

Mind of the Raven by Bernd Heinrich

We have been on holiday for a week in Funchal where we did see some birds, Swifts, Blackcaps, Blackbirds, Grey Wagtails and inumerable pigeons. We didn’t really go there to bitd watch however but I did need a good solid book to read to I took “Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds”  by Bernd Heinrich and I wasn’t disappointed.

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