{"id":6380,"date":"2017-02-28T18:29:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T18:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/?p=6380"},"modified":"2017-03-27T18:56:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T17:56:11","slug":"6380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/2017\/02\/6380\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2017 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

February 2017 Summary<\/strong>
\nUK Species Year List to February : 100
\nTotal UK Species in February : 73
\nNew “Year Ticks” in February : 15
\nNew “Life Ticks” in February : 0<\/p>\n

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February was opened by a visit to Chorlton Water Park and Kenworthy Woods<\/a> on the 3rd. I got a couple of year ticks in the shape of Grey Wagtial and Rose-ringed Parakeet but the species list for the day was rather good and included Goldcrest and Redwing.<\/p>\n

A day out in on the 7th to North Wales to try for Snow Buntings and Hawfiches<\/a> proved to be very succesful and I even managed to get some good photographs of the Snow Buntings, though , of course, the Hawfinch were a lot less accomodating.<\/p>\n

A spell of flu put me out of action for a good part of February so it wasn’t until the 25th that I got out again with a visit to Connah’s Quay and Burton Mere Wetlands<\/a> where, at the former, we were successful with the Twite but it seemed like the Bewick Swans had moved on from Shotwick Fields (in fact a later report suggested that at least a few were atill around).<\/p>\n

At Burton Mere Wetlands  we got a nice range of birds including \u201cyear ticks\u201d of Avocet, Ruff, Marsh Harrier and Great White Egret. The storm damage was quite remarkable and it will take them a long time to repair it all.<\/p>\n

The last outing of the month was to Hoylake, Parkgate, Neston and Burton Mere Wetlands<\/a> on the 28th February for a high tide. The heavy snow that was falling as we set off disappeared by the time we got to the Wirral and it turned out to be a fine day with some good birding. At Hoylake, Bar-tailed Godwit, strel, Brent Geese and Knot were all good year ticks and at  Parkgate we even got a small flock of Waxwings.  We got a few more birds at Burton but the weather was getting to be very wet so we called it a day.<\/p>\n

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February 2017 Summary UK Species Year List to February : 100 Total UK Species in February : 73 New “Year Ticks” in February : 15 New “Life Ticks” in February : 0<\/p>

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