RSPB Leighton Moss : 8th – 9th August 2014
Some nice recent sitings at Leighton Moss tempted us up there but it’s quite a long drive and we wanted to have a full day there so we decided to take advantage of the high tide by staying overnight and having two shots as the RSPB reserve as well as having a bit of an away day. We stayed at Ye Old Fighting Cocks at Arnside which was pretty cheap, had reasonable food and beer and was nicely situated so some of the rooms overlook “the lake” that is to say the Kent Channel which feeds into Morecambe Bay, itself quite an interesting place for birds at the right time of year and tide. But our interest mainly lay in what we could see at RSPB Leighton Moss.