UK Species Year List to April: 138
\nTotal UK Species in April: 108
\nNew “Year Ticks” in April: 31
\nNew “Life Ticks” in April: 2<\/p>\n
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Birding Group outings for the month included our first visit for quite a while to Brockholes Nature Reserve on 2nd April<\/a>. We got some late-staying Fieldfare and some early-arriving Sand Martins and had a nice day. It might have been better if we had left it a little later in the year when the warblers and hirundines had arrived but we still got a decent number of species.<\/p>\n The next week there were only four of us, just one car, but the others really missed out a beautiful day at RSPB Leighton Moss on the 9th April<\/a> where we got over fifty species including our first Swallows and WIllow Warblers of the year, our first Red-breasted Mergansers, A Spoonbill (!) and a life tick Green-winged Teal – seen from close quarters !<\/p>\n We had a solo day out on the Wirral on the 15th<\/a> April where we got year tick Wheatear and Water Pipit and the following day was a birding group outing to Moore Nature Reserve on the 16th April <\/a>where our year tick Goldcrest was outshone by a pair in the garden of the pub we went to afterwards for our planning session for next term as it was the last of this term. The upshot of the planning session is listed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The rest of the month was dominated by the first half of our two-week holiday in Suffolk and Norfolk but also taking in some other counties on the way and back.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 2019 : Summary UK Species Year List to April: 138 Total UK Species in April: 108 New “Year Ticks” in April: 31 New “Life Ticks” in April: 2<\/p>