Cheshire Birder
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Still a bit early for them first dates normally last week of Sept but having said that quite a few reported in Lancs and Manchester during last few days
CB
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Inner Marsh Farm - from the horse's mouth (3 Viewers)
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Still a bit early for them first dates normally last week of Sept but having said that quite a few reported in Lancs and Manchester during last few days
CB
Two Pec Sands were a good find! Lying snoozing in the garden when I got the call. Apparantely a silted-up sluice on the other side of the railway embankment has now been cleared allowing a lower water level to be maintained. IMF has had a good run of waders recently - as well as the Pecs theres been the two Wood & Curlew Sandpipers. All we need now is Anglesey's Baird's to make an appearance. Although with Baird's claimed annually it'll be a brave person who rings Colin & gets him out of bed!!!
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Rob Smallwood
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Lying snoozing in the garden when I got the call. QUOTE]
Working the local patch hard you mean...
Lying snoozing in the garden when I got the call. QUOTE]
Working the local patch hard you mean...
best way to study visible migration..............................
Cheshire Birder
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www.deeestuary.co.uk showing curlew sand again today
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Graham Howard Shortt
They were on the back pool from the hide and views not great. Merlin belting through was great, though, and Water Rail showing well in front of the hide. Great reserve.
Graham
Rob Smallwood
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Rob Smallwood
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PS - if ever a hide needed a sign saying "keep your voices down, don't point your hand or long lens out of the hide and shuffle up to make room for newcomers" this is it - great reserve but some really dodgy practices!
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sleipnerofasgard
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Had my first visit on saturday, arrived at neston and went down to parkgate as i was on my bike and travelling light, just bins and camera. High tide didn't produce much, plenty of Little Egrets and a pair of Peregrines, so cycled up through the country park, ended up going down marshlands road and past the Harp inn to Burton Marsh, having no idea where i was, so had a bit of a wander across the marsh where i found more Wheatears than you could shake a very big stick at:king: and some beautifully summer plumaged Stonechats and a couple of marauding Buzzards, excellent place that i will return to for another look, a pity i had to retrace my steps or get shot at was just about to give up when i spotted the RSPB sign halfway up the hill so popped in for an hour or so.
Next time i'll bring my scope and stay a little longer, if i can get a seat:-O, nice to hear that big plans are in the offing to improve the place, another reserve to visit along with brockholes and hesketh out marsh, can only be a good thing, keep up the regular reports and thanks for all the info
Frank
was just about to give up when i spotted the RSPB sign halfway up the hill so popped in for an hour or so.Next time i'll bring my scope and stay a little longer, if i can get a seat:-O, nice to hear that big plans are in the offing to improve the place, another reserve to visit along with brockholes and hesketh out marsh, can only be a good thing, keep up the regular reports and thanks for all the info
Frank
Lateral thinking. Love it!:t:
Maybe a big sign above the door as seen at other reserves along the lines of 'the birds will come closer if you keep quiet and don't wave your arms out the viewing slots'.
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Jane Turner
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It was much more fun when there was no hide and you had to get a car up onto the railway line from behind the headquarters of the rifle range )
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Rob Smallwood
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or make the bench in the hide longer!
Unfortunately, unlike the Tardis our hide does bend the constrainst of the space-time continuum and of course abides all current laws of physics.
John Barber
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Rob, What are the four birds in your photo's - I want to check I'm right as I'm trying to get up to speed with my waders and such like .
Rob, What are the four birds in your photo's - I want to check I'm right as I'm trying to get up to speed with my waders and such like .
Rob Smallwood
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That's the sort of narrow minded thinking that puts people off organised reserves!
JB - Ruff, Curlew Sand, Snipe & B-t Godwit...the Ruff were causing havoc with those looking for Pec Sands - especially the smaller Reeves....
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