December 2019 archive

December 2019 : Summary

UK Species Year List to December 2019 : 184
Total UK Species in December 2019 : 71
New “Year Ticks” in December 2019 : 4
New “Life Ticks” in December 2019 : 0

Wirral High Tide 28th December 2019

Our last chance of the year to do some birding came on the 28th December when there was a moderately high tide on the Wirral – 9.24m at 12:19pm. We hoped that this would give us a little boost to our December monthly species list.

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Birding Musselburgh and Joppa 23rd December 2019

An unexpected funeral in Musselburgh just before Christmas saw us holed up at the Rockville Hotel in Joppa. This had the unexpected value of having rooms directly looking over the Firth of Forth. In fact they had tall windows that were hinged to open all the way inwards so you could sit in your room with a scope with no glass in-between. This gave us some great birding opportunities that helped take our minds of the upcoming funeral.

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Birding Group Schedule for 2020

Jan 7:   Pennington

Jan 14: Burton

Jan 21: Moore

Jan 28: Sandbach

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Birding Group Burton Mere Wetlands 10th December 2019

The last birding group outing before Christmas was to Burton Mere Wetlands. Because of my leg injury I couldn’t get far around the reserve but I had a pleasant enough couple of hours around the reception hide getting the usual birds and a surprise Merlin.

After that we repaired to the Wheatsheaf at Neston for our lunch and planning session for the next term.