thanks - we'll be heading there from PrestatynHi Ivan.........
You can actually park your car safely on the roadside, that is next to the path that leads to Flint Point, and save yourself a few extra minutes of walking, which can be useful if you are carrying a scope/photographic equipment.
Travelling from the Queensferry/Connah's Quay direction.......
If you drive past the castle/lifeboat station on your right hand side, and then take the first turning on your right, and then turn immediately left, you will then be on the road that leads to Flint Point.......
Alternatively, if you are travelling from the Point Of Ayr direction..........
Turn left for the castle, and then first left again, and then immediately left again, this will leave you on the road for Flint Point.......
weren't able to hang around too long but the directions were spot on - this stretch of the coast truly is a hidden gem (although possibly not on Sunday afternoon at peak dog walking time!)Hi Ivan.........
You can actually park your car safely on the roadside, that is next to the path that leads to Flint Point, and save yourself a few extra minutes of walking, which can be useful if you are carrying a scope/photographic equipment.
Travelling from the Queensferry/Connah's Quay direction.......
If you drive past the castle/lifeboat station on your right hand side, and then take the first turning on your right, and then turn immediately left, you will then be on the road that leads to Flint Point.......
Alternatively, if you are travelling from the Point Of Ayr direction..........
Turn left for the castle, and then first left again, and then immediately left again, this will leave you on the road for Flint Point.......
weren't able to hang around too long but the directions were spot on - this stretch of the coast truly is a hidden gem (although possibly not on Sunday afternoon at peak dog walking time!)
well we might bump into each other (although we are only up in the area four or five times a year at the moment) - will try and do more justice to Flint next time we are up and hopefully the roadworks will be finished by then.Hi Ivan......
You're right.........this is a fantastic area to watch birds, both at Shotton Steelworks, and also here at Flint, although both places are horribly under watched, with a membership at Shotton, of probably less than 10 Permit Holders, it is very rare for me to ever see another Permit Holder during my visits there, and it's taken a person like me, to go into there, and put a ridiculous amount of hours of Birding into the place, to truly uncover what a great site it is.........and Flint doesn't do much better,......as you can see from this blog, it's a site that I also visit very regularly, with most of my visits there usually lasting 3 or 4 hours,.... but I'm still waiting to see another Birder here!
well we might bump into each other (although we are only up in the area four or five times a year at the moment) - will try and do more justice to Flint next time we are up and hopefully the roadworks will be finished by then.
14/11/18
Hallelujah !!!,........ I can count after all !
After making a complete and utter hash, of trying to count the Common Tern colony at Shotton earlier this year, where there were eventually, about twice as many terns present at the colony, than I had originally thought myself,.......and then subsequently, going on to embarrass myself even further, by making another complete hash, of trying to reliably count the wildfowl properly off Flint Point,.......I was actually right, when I said that I thought that the size of the Bearded Tit flock, that I had heard at Shotton, was definitely larger than the 2 birds that had been reported at Burton already.............and guess what........there's 4!!!
So are you suggesting that the Beardies at BMW are commuting between there and Shotton Denzil?
Hi Ivan.........
The next time that you're up visiting the area, please feel free to send me a Private Message via this Forum, and we could hopefully meet up at Flint, for some Birding.
P.S.
The scrub land here, is also very good for migrants in Spring and Autumn...........
Hi Saluki.......and thanks very much for your reply.
It's impossible to say really, and it's on occasions like these, when the complete and utter lack of other people to fall back on, as a result of the almost non existent membership here,...... really shines through.
The great thing about Burton Mere Wetlands, is that the reserve is watched non stop, by literally scores of different people, morning, noon, and night, and for 7 day's a week,.... every week, so if one person can't sort a particular Birding situation out for themselves, then there will always be someone else to follow that situation up,.....literally within minutes,.....whereas at Shotton, apart from on a Sunday morning, when the guy's from the M.R.G. come down to do their stuff, the reserve is not watched at all by anyone,... and I mean anyone,... except for me, so if I can't get to the bottom of a Birding situation, in the hour or so that I'm there, then that situation has no chance of being resolved by anyone else after I've left the reserve......because there's never anybody else there!