Perhaps the intel of some super birds at Eastville Park made the decision easy for the seven walkers who turned up expecting to do Snuff Mills, to choose the park instead. Following the Frome downstream means crossing it via the road bridge, where we were delighted to see a Grey Wagtail poking about on the spillway. We were barely out…
Month: December 2018
Tuesday 18 December – Bridgeyate Leader: Dave Body
Cancelled on the day due to weather conditions, thanks to Dave for sending this note of his 14 December reconnoitre, Ed) I walked the route on a dry, fairly bright day. The ground was firm underfoot after a couple of recent frosts and there were only a couple of muddy spots – what could go wrong? Early on I had…
Sunday 16 December – Torbay Leader: Jane Cumming
It’s a hundred miles to Paignton, albeit well under two hours’ drive from the west side of Bristol, but six members made the trip (postponed 24 hours owing to Saturday’s drenching rain). The forecast still wasn’t very encouraging, but in the event we only got properly rained on once and the birding was well worth a bit of wet! We…
Tuesday 11 December 2018 – Between Chew and Blagdon Lakes Leaders: Sue and John Prince
Twenty-one birders met at Herons Green on a cool but fine winter’s morning. Water levels are now higher. Two Goosanders were present along with all the usual ducks, swans and geese. On a patch of mud by the reed bed two Black-tailed Godwits, two Grey Herons and several Cormorants were observed through the telescopes. We followed the lanes up to…
Saturday 08 December – Cheddar
Cancelled courtesy of storm ‘Deirdre’.
Tuesday 04 December – Newton St. Loe Leaders: Duncan and Pat Gill, Peter Holbrook
A record number of 50 members arrived for this year’s pre-Christmas lunch walk from Holy Trinity Church – but could we get 50 bird species? We set off in the welcome sunshine. Our group was well spread out, with Peter kindly waiting to gather up latecomers, so not everyone saw the single Bullfinch and Greenfinch. We walked past a feeder,…