March 2018: Summary
UK Species Year List to March: 98
Total UK Species in March: 49
New “Year Ticks” in March: 6
New “Life Ticks” in March: 0
March 2018 archive
Mar 30 2018
March 2018: Summary
Mar 30 2018
Burton Mere Wetlands and Neston Old Quay 30 March 2018
We managed to fit in a visit to Burton Mere Wetlands on the last day of the month and it managed to keep dry giving us a chance to get around most of the site. We were immediately rewarded with two Mediterranean Gulls on the main scrape which was a good year tick. The number of Avocets on site was impressive and we were told that the maximum count had been 129 !
Mar 30 2018
Moore Nature Reserve 30 March 2018
Most of our March had been filled with our holiday in America but we managed to get back into the birding group Tuesdays for the last date of the term which was to Moore Nature Reserve. We ran in to the warden in the car park and she toild us theat three Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers had been seen close to the usual place for them the previous day. We didn’t have any luck finding them, however, despite spending a long time looking. Perhaps they were hiding because it was raining quite heavily most of the time we were there.
Mar 19 2018
Holiday Birding March 2018
Our American holiday this year took us to San Diego, Big Island, Maui and San Francisco.
San Diego
In San Diego we found a rather splendid site at Imperial Beach, San Diego Bay. We actually ran into a few birders who were looking for a (locally rare) Flamingo. They gave us some pointers and helped us identify some tricker birds – well, at least from our point of view.