Birding Group Visit to Tatton Park 22nd January 2012
As it was in January of last year, it was a lovely bright but cold day. The difference this year was that there was lots of snow around and the meres were iced over for a significant part of their area.
. We parked up as usual in the lay-by on Mobberley Road and walked down Mallard Close and over the railway bridge to the south entrance. We walked through Dog Wood where we saw both male and female Great Spotted Woodpeckers, the male drumming loudly and resounding throughout the woods. There were Chaffinches, Robins, Blackbirds and Jackdaws aplenty.As we passed through the woods we also saw a Nuthatch and a small group of Siskins, the latter a first for the year. There were, obviously, also a lot of Blue and Great Tits.