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NE Wales birdingwatching
An 8m hike around the moors yesterday, starting at Worlds End, plenty of stonechats and meadow pipits around. We saw a female black grouse with some chicks, a couple of distant male black grouse in flight, at least 3 nesting curlews and a few common redstarts. Highlight was a couple of minutes... -
NE Wales birdingwatching
Cant believe its been 1.5 years since I posted in this forum wot I started ages ago! Anyway, beautiful 6m walk with my dog yesterday on a bright sunny but cold January day from Rhewl (West of Llangollen) up to Moel Morfydd. Fantastic views, love it up here on a nice day, come summer it'll be... -
NE Wales birdingwatching
This new dog needs a lot of work lol, so proper birding seems to be off the agenda for a while. Anyway whilst being dragged up the leete path at loggerheads did see a lovely dipper on the alyn, posing nicely on the opposite bank long enough for several photos except I had a lively dog instead of... -
NE Wales birdingwatching
Wednesday at worlds end, not much chance of proper birding cos i had our new, untrained dog pulling me all over the shop. But did see plenty of mipets, a few stonechats and a lovely male whinchat. -
NE Wales birdingwatching
Yesterday we visited Chirk Castle, wonderful place and beautiful gardens. On the walk up to the castle there was a newly fledged jackdaw at the side of the road, the castle itself and its outbuildings were swarming with nesting swallows and house martins. The gardens are beautiful, swallows... -
NE Wales birdingwatching
This morning, for the first time in months, I spotted 2 brown hares in the field behind airbus, quite close to the road. Wednesday, I had a dipper on the Eglwsyg river behind Vale Crucis abbey, heard a green woodpecker by velvet hill and found a pair of nesting redstarts feeding their chicks in... -
NE Wales birdingwatching
On Friday I saw an oystercatcher fly onto the roof of the Chester car supermarket opposite Tesco, is that close to where you saw one? -
NE Wales birdingwatching
Nice walk from llandegla upto llyn cywfynwy (prob spelt wrong!) today. Heard my first cuckoo of the year somewhere up on the moors but couldn't find him! Plenty of buzzardss, chiffchaffs + willow warblers, coupla kestrels. Up by the lake, plenty of mipets, stonechats and more willow warblers. On... -
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NE Wales birdingwatching
Lovely sunny walk up Bryn alyn yesterday. Plenty of buzzards about, dipper on the r alyn below plymmog; lots of singing meadow pipets at the top; a good flock of c50 fieldfares by fron deg, swiftly followed by a flushed woodcock! On the way back down a green woodpecker was yaffling right in... -
NE Wales birdingwatching
A pleasant couple of non-birding hours in Ruthin this pm. The reward for forgetting my camera was 2 peregrines perched on st peters church. A friendly local pointed them out, apparently they nest there most years, maybe worth a trip if anyones in the area. Coming home, a little egret was in the... -
NE Wales birdingwatching
After not seeing them for quite a few days, one of the little egrets was back in the ditch behind Airbus broughton today. The big news though is they seem to have finished those damn roadworks on chester rd! hurrah! -
NE Wales birdingwatching
Quick trip to Gresford Flash yesterday to feed the ducks. There were a couple of Great Crested Grebes as well and 6 goosander on the far shore inc 1 male. -
NE Wales birdingwatching
This morning little egret again in the field opposite Saltney Ferry Rd by the cycle lane roundworks. Hugely enjoyable 9m walk around Llanferres yesterday: Heron in the R Alyn below Plymmogg farm with 2 buzzards over; a flock of c100 redwings feeding in the trees at the edge of the wood just... -
NE Wales birdingwatching
A skein of about 100 geese (think they were Canada) flew over our house in saltney this morning abt 8.30, heading SE, I don't know where they go but we regularly get flocks flying over am then back pm. I reckon if they kept on that heading they would pass slightly to the East of Wrexham, maybe... -
NE Wales birdingwatching
Excellent meal in the cornmill at Llangollen last night, added bonus of watching 2 dippers in the river dee below as we ate! -
NE Wales birdingwatching
Pleasant couple of hours today in a sunny but cold alyn waters country park. Bird highlights were 3 buzzards, 1 dipper + a kingfisher on the river, then a flock of abt 12 redwing in amongst the silver birch. -
NE Wales birdingwatching
Thankjs for the correction Peugeot! No black necked grebes at Shotwick? My compilation vid from the high tide at Oakenholt Marsh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VLnTlywZgU -
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NE Wales birdingwatching
Hi Peugeot, which field was that? Near the railway bridge? Ta -
NE Wales birdingwatching
Looking through yesterdays photos, I see there was also a small flock of twite and a rock pipit at cqnr. -
NE Wales birdingwatching
Good day today! Started with a little egret landing on the verge before going down into the ditch in pentre, between the school + the speed camera. Then onto shotwick for all the swans and 2 black necked grebes. Also plenty of Coots, tufties, gadwall + little grebes. Then on to cqnr dns, got... -
NE Wales birdingwatching
Yep I like wepre park too! Back to the ditches behind Airbus, tonight at abt 5pm driving from queensferry, a little egret flew up out of the ditch on the right into a small tree, this was way down by the school + shops, I was surprised to see one here because its right next to loads of human... -
NE Wales birdingwatching
thanks for that! I've only ever seen one barn owl here and that was further back towards saltney by the farm buildings at the railway bridge. I usually forget to look at the fields on the other side of the road! I've not seen the brown hares down here for a few months either. -
NE Wales birdingwatching
I saw one or two little egrets in these ditches virtually every day last week. Two today on the way back from Connahs Quay DNS. Excellent few hours spent at CQDNS today. Highlights were: - watching the kingfisher in the pool by the toilet block; - A solitary greenshank (with some redshanks) in...