Birdwatching Group visit to Heysham
With its nature reserve, shoreline, docks and power station outfall Heysham is home to a wide range of habitats and some spectacular birds. Just about anything can turn up here.
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With its nature reserve, shoreline, docks and power station outfall Heysham is home to a wide range of habitats and some spectacular birds. Just about anything can turn up here.
These delightful woods are not just good to look at – they are home to some of our most delightful woodland species including Jay, pied flycatcher, redstart and woodpeckers.
Starting from the car park at Hellifield Health Centre, this is an 8 mile circular walk on a mixture of paths, tracks and farmers fields with some boggy stretches.
With stunning views across Morecambe Bay, South Walney is a fantastic place for bird watching and home to the only grey seal colony in Cumbria. Depending on the weather we may also get the opportunity to help the bird observatory with its ringing programme.
Lying at the entrance to Morecambe Bay, and its internationally significant population of wintering wildfowl, Rossall Point sits on a key migration route for seabirds and passerine migrants. This makes it a great vantage point for sea-watching and migrant-spotting
Group member Richard Candeland highlights for us the incredible diversity of birdlife in Colombia, the country with the longest and most varied bird list in the world.
The sad tale of how we lost the original penguin, Pinguinus impennis - the Great Auk.
The Lune valley is home to a wide range of resident species and wintering birds. We’ll walk the banks of the River Wenning from Hornby, down to where it meets the Lune, and then along the southern bank of the Lune to Loyn Bridge to see what we can find on the river and in […]
This fantastic nature reserve comprises a wide range of habitats including wet woodland, reed swamp, flower-rich wet grassland, hay meadow, woodland, pasture, open water and even arable land. Not surprisingly it is home to a wide range of birds. It has 45 breeding species and is extremely popular with migrants.