Birding Group Visit To Moore Nature Reserve 20th March 2012
We started off by parking up in the car park where we saw a list of the recent sightings which was promising including, as it did, all the Woodpeckers, Tawny Owl etc. We walked down the path from the car park that takes you into Dog Field, looking all the time to our left to the woods. As soon as we arrived we met a chap who was leaving who said that he had just seen a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker on a dead tree stump in the woods there. We all looked but could not see anything except a Jay or two and some Chaffinches and Tits. We turned right at the end and walked down through the field to Birchwood Pool where there were a few Little Grebes and a couple of Great Crested Grebes, a couple of Gadwall and Teal and lots of Great Black-backed, Herring and Black-headed Gulls as well as Canada Geese. We also saw a Buzzard overhead.