UK Species Year List to June 2021: 102
Total UK Species in June 2021: 86
New “Year Ticks” in June 2021: 23
New “Life Ticks” in June 2021: 0
June 2021 archive
Jun 30 2021
June 2021 Summary
Jun 18 2021
North Wales Break 15th – 17th June 2021
With three days of good weather predicted, we took the opportunity to visit North Wales in order to catch up with all the cliff nesting birds and other special species that we normally manage to get on our trips to North Wales. As it happened, there were two really sunny days that sandwiched one awful one. This was a shame because it was the day allocated to visiting RSPB South Stack. However we did manage to get fifty-eight species, seventeen of which were year ticks.
Continue readingJun 11 2021
Dove Stone Reservoir 10th – 11th June 2021
We planned to meet some friends at the Huntsman’s Inn near Holmfirth. They were travelling north and wanted a stopover site and it is only an hour from where we are so we arranged to stay the night there. We had most of the day to ourselves so we stopped off at RSPB Dove Stone where we had visited during a similar meet-up in July 2019. This time we took a different route round the reservoir covering only the part that has the memorial forest in. Here we had much better birding than we had had previously when we circumambulated the reservoir.
Continue readingJun 03 2021
Birding Group : Burton Mere Wetlands : 3rd June 2021
The second birding group outing since resuming our trips after 2nd wave Covid was to Burton Mere Wetlands. The hides were open again but you still have to wear a mask and ones bins and scopes steam up straight away so not much fun and hard to bear for long. Anyway, we decided to head off to the Border Hide (Inner Marsh Farm hide as was) straight away before the crowds arrived (note – we were the crowd) and managed to get a couple of good wader year-ticks there, namely a single Dunlin and a pair of Curlew Sandpipers – the later, unusually, starting to get into their summer plumage so not quite as we usually see them.
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