Birding Group Visit to Dunham Massey 10th December 2013
The last birding group day out before Christmas was to Dunham Massey. It started out a nice morning but gradually got duller. As we left the car park we saw a small flock of Redwing fly over the park but this was not an indication of things to come as, unfortunately, it was not one of our better visits notable for the lack of Woodpeckers, Mistle and Song Thrushes and Jays. We did see a couple of Treecreepers and Nuthatches but that was about it. We spent a long time examining a flock of Chaffinches looking for a Brambling and, whilst I did think I might have got a brief glance, we concluded that nobody had it for long enough to say for sure. We had lunch there and made a preliminary sketch of the potential venues for our days out for the first few months of 2014.