Mar 14 2013
On 14th March we paid a visit to WWT Martin Mere, principally to pick up my new Swarovski ATX scope and APO adapter for my Nikon D300 that I had ordered two months ago ! We gave the scope a test run on a fairly quick walk around the hides. As we walked down the avenue to the Ron Barker hide we saw a single Redwing looking exceptionally attractive in the sunlight. At the hide the presence of about a dozen Avocets was the highlight. Continue reading
Mar 02 2013
On the 2nd March we went up to Hoylake for the high tide as we had done earlier in the year in the middle of January. The tide was supposed to be quite high but it didn’t come in anywhere as near to the promenade as it had done on our first visit and also the visit was at the weekend so the place was even more full of dog walkers than before and they seemed to take great delight in walking all the way our to the edge of the water where most of the birds were roosting which got them flying off to somewhere quieter.
When we first arrived we got good views a, first just one but then later several more, Grey Plovers. For quite some time the closest views of the assemblage of birds were to be had on the far side of the lifeboat station where the tide comes in first. Eventually the tide drove them off the sand at that part of the beach and the water eventually covered all the sand beyond the station.