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.
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May 31 2021
May 2021 Summary
UK Species Year List to May 2021: 78
Total UK Species in May 2021: 72
New “Year Ticks” in May 2021: 23
New “Life Ticks” in May 2021: 0
Sep 30 2020
September 2020 Summary
September marked the return to some kind of non back garden birding for us as the Covid 19 restrictions on travel were eased. A lot of the reserves we go to still have their hides closed as at Burton but some have opened them as at Martin Mere. Either way there are still restrictions in place as to proximity to others, wearing face masks etc. The strange year has meant that our bird numbers are way down and at 103 for the year so far, we are seventy-seven species down and that is just in the UK. Be that as it may we probably appreciate being out in the natural worls more than we did before lock-down. This is probably one of the strangest monthly summaries I have written and things may return to more restrictions yet. There is no light at the end of tunnel yet – at least for this year.
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Burton Mere Wetlands & Parkgate 29th September 2020
Our last birding day out of September was again to Burton Mere Wetlands. We started off walking to the new elevated viewing platform getting a year-tick Cetti’s Warbler on the way. On the scrape were a group of five Egyptian Geese and a single Whooper Swan- another year tick. Unfortunately I couldn’t get my scope up in enough time to get on the Spotted Crake which was just turning the corner of a spit to go out of sight for the day. I really wanted to ask a chap there if I could see it through his scope but thought with distancing and Covid that might not be the right thing to do. As it happened another chap didn’t have the same qualms as me and he got on the bird on the other chap’s scope. DOH!
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WWT Martin Mere 22nd September 2020
We ventured further afield that the Wirral this week and pre-booked (as you have to now) a visit to WWT Martin Mere. It was a very different experience to our usual visits there but it was a nice day and we got a few decent birds.
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April – August 2020 – Covid 19 continues to thwart any birding
For all of April, May, June and July we were not allowed to travel except for limited reasons, none of which was birding – although, from reading the birding magazines, plenty of people found a way around this in pursuit of their more important hobby. For us, though, we stayed at home so the only birds we had were out usual birds. For a summary of these dire days and then our brief foray into the outside world in August read on
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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
Dec 28 2019
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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Oct 17 2019
Summary Spain Birding 2019
As well as the birds we saw at Brazo Del Este, we also got a few other birds in Seville and Cadiz so the following is the grand total of our Spanish holiday – 66 species including 9 lifers and numerous year ticks
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