New “Year Ticks” in April 2023: 22
New “Life Ticks” in April 2023: 0
Total Species for 2023 so far: 114
April 2023 archive
Apr 30 2023
April 2023 Summary
Apr 18 2023
Birding Group visit to Pennington Flash 18 April 2023
The first birding group outing of the Spring Term was to Penningtion Flash on a lovely, sunny morning. In all we got half a dozen new year ticks and also had a chance to visit the new cafe and toilets that have recently opened there. What more could you wish for?
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Ham Wall and Shapwick Heath 6th April 2023
After a short visit to Bristol, to catch up with friends, we moved on to Montacute to see our friends who live there. The weather looked a bit uncertain on the day we had planned to go there but we gave it a shot and managed to both avoid any bad weather and get a couple of good year ticks.
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Slimbridge WWT Reserve 2nd April 2023
On a trip to the south of England to visit friends, we managed to get a couple of days with some birding. We drove down on the 1st April but we got stuck on the motorway almost as soon as we started. With the car parked and the engine off for three hours, we didn’t make it to Slimbridge that afternoon but we did get there for a few hours the following day and managed to get some good year-ticks in.
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