davewalters
Well-known member
Absolutely blown away by this reserve. It was all new to me. I was a serious twitcher, local patcher and Cheshire birder until around 2003 and then just hung up my bins, with the exception of keeping a garden list.
My wife and I thought we'd have a look at BMW on Sunday as it's only 12 miles away and as she's recently retired her horse we're a bit stumped for things to do.
The layout of the whole place just took me straight back to my first visits to Norfolk in the late 80's. The staff in the reception hide were fantastic and the birds.....
Most obvious was a total of 46 Little Egrets. Probably nothing to todays birders but I like many others travelled several hundred miles to see my first one a few decades ago. I even twitched the first available Cheshire record at Frodsham, I think?
A few Avocet were a bit of surprise and I think a Cheshire tick (Jonathan, is that right?) and piecing the reserve together with what used to be IMF and earlier kept my wife interested for hours :-O
Anyway just wanted to share and to say that once a birder always a birder!!!!
Luv Dave Walters
My wife and I thought we'd have a look at BMW on Sunday as it's only 12 miles away and as she's recently retired her horse we're a bit stumped for things to do.
The layout of the whole place just took me straight back to my first visits to Norfolk in the late 80's. The staff in the reception hide were fantastic and the birds.....
Most obvious was a total of 46 Little Egrets. Probably nothing to todays birders but I like many others travelled several hundred miles to see my first one a few decades ago. I even twitched the first available Cheshire record at Frodsham, I think?
A few Avocet were a bit of surprise and I think a Cheshire tick (Jonathan, is that right?) and piecing the reserve together with what used to be IMF and earlier kept my wife interested for hours :-O
Anyway just wanted to share and to say that once a birder always a birder!!!!
Luv Dave Walters