Wirral Bird Club                                         Programme

Field Meetings

Indoor Meetings

Saturday 17 September 2011
Connah's Quay Reserve
Guided walk around the reserve overlooking the Dee. £2 fee. For more info click here
Meet at Reserve security barrier, Kelsterton Road, 10 a.m.

Saturday 29 October 2011
Old Moor RSPB by Coach
Waders, ducks & swans - plus masses of golden plover!
Bring RSPB card. For more info click here
Telephone 0151 632 4451 to reserve your seat

Sunday 27 November 2011
Parkgate High Tide Birdwatch and Wirral Way. For more info click here
Meet Old Baths, Parkgate at 9.30 a.m.
(High Tide is 12.06, 9.8m)

Sunday 18 December 2011
Whitegate Way, Cheshire
Easy walking among woodland and meres.
For more info click here
Meet at Whitegate Station car park, 10 a.m

Saturday 28 January 2012
Erddig and Gresford Flash
Lakes, woodland, meadows and wetland
Walk through the grounds and woods surroung the House.
For more info click here
Meet Erddig NT main car park 10 am.

Sunday 26 February 2012
Marshside RSPB and Mere Sands Wood
Combining two great reserves with varied habitats. For more info click here
Meet Marshside RSPB car park 9.30 am.

Saturday 24 March 2012
Greenfield Valley and Ffynnongroew
Woodland walk along river in Heritage Park.
For more info click here
Meet small car park off Greenfield Rd 10 am.

Sunday 29 April 2012
Woolston Eyes Bird Reserve
Guided walk at SSSI based on four flooded beds. £2 fee. For more info click here
Meet Ship Canal entrance 10 am.

Saturday 12 May 2012
Elan Valley by coach
Welsh oak woodland birds will be the main interest - pied flycatcher, redstart, red kite.
For more info click here
Telephone 0151 632 4451 to reserve your seat

Saturday 30 June 2012
Gronant Sand Dunes
Including a visit to the Little Tern colony.
For more info click here
Meet Shore Rd, Gronant car park at 10 am.

Sunday 29 July 2012
Hoylake/Langfields/Gilroy Nature Park
Birds of the Dee shore and Wirral farmland.
For more info click here
Meet in main Hoylake Station car park
at 10 am.

22 September 2011
"Arctic & Hebridean Odyssey"
Gordon Yates

Thursday 27 October 2011
"From Your Northern Correspondent"
Martyn Jamieson

Thursday 24 November 2011
"The Biggest Twitch"
Alan Davies & Ruth Miller

Thursday 26 January 2012
"Paradise of the Neotropics"
Keith Offord

Thursday 23 February 2012
"In The Blink Of An Eye"
Michael Leach

Chairman Colin Introducing the Indoor Meeting

Hugh Leading a Field Meeting

Kestrel © Michael Leach

Thursday 22 March 2012
"Birds Around The World"
Margaret & John Sixsmith

Thursday 26 April 2012
"A Naturalist's Year"
Jeff Clarke

Thursday 24 May 2012
AGM followed by "Life Through a Lens"
George Challinor

Thursday 28 June 2012
"Barn Owls & Peregrines in Cheshire"
Bernard Wright

Thursday 26 July 2012
"Florida - Winter Birds Of The Sunshine State"
Stuart Meredith

Leasowe Lighthouse, North Wirral Coastal Park

The Dam at Lake Vyrnwy

Birdwatching at Hoylake