Trip reports

Coach Trip - RSPB Marshside & Mere Sands Wood

Saturday, 17 October 2009

We were again fortunate with the weather on this the second coach trip of the season. We reached Marshside around 10.30 along with the high tide.
Some of the group elected to hit the hides first and located Black Tailed Godwits, Pintail, Teal, Curlew, Shoveler, Snipe and raptors which included Peregrine, Merlin and Kestrel. Others chose to scan the scrub on the other side of the road and a few walked to the waters edge to get better views of the waders which included Grey Plover, Golden Plover, Redshank, Lapwing along with the usual Oystercatcher. No matter what side of the road you chose there were always the sound of the Pink¬footed Geese we came to see, additionally some of the group managed to see Barnacle and Brent Geese.
The short transfer to Mere Woods soon passed and we were walking in the woods to the sound of Jay calling and Redwing eagerly devouring berries in the canopy of the wood.
At one of the hides a kingfisher obliged with constantly returning to a favourite perch to pose for us. Other birds that were seen included Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Reed Bunting and Fieldfare.
A good day finished at 16.45 with a total 82 birds seen.