October 2022 archive

October 2022 Summary

New “Year Ticks” in October 2022: 2
New “Life Ticks” in October 2022: 0
Total Species for 2022 so far: 160

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Parkgate, Riverside Road, Neston Old Quay, and Burton Mere Wetlands 25th October 2022

The birding group day out on the 25th October took in a range of sites on the Wirral, starting off with Parkgate where there was a 9.5 metre high tide at 11:48am – not particularly high but it was a beautifully sunny, clear day with fantastic visibility all the way over to Wales.

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Hoylake and Burton Mere Wetlands 11th October 2022

We joined the birding group on our first group day since our Scotland trip and it was for a high tide on the Wirral – 9.5 m at 12:48pm. With such a late tide we were able to stop off at Moels first, where we saw a small flock of Common Scoters out at sea on a quiet, sunny day. There were also the usual Redshanks, Shelducks and Dunlin but we only stayed a little while before going on to Hoylake to meet the rest of the group.

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