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When? Started: 1993 Who? Started with staff and friends from U H S, Chester. Organiser: Martyn Harris We walk every Wednesday and Saturdays, New Years day and May Day. How many walk? Walks take place as long as there are at least 2 wanting to walk on that day. More walk on a Wednesday than on a Saturday. Most ever: 29. Current group size walking: 2-10 in mid-week and 2-4 on Saturday. Where do we walk? Saturday: Anywhere in North and Mid-Wales, Peak District, Shropshire and the Long Mynd and as far North as the Trough of Bowland. Thursday: Anywhere within about 40 miles of Chester. Type of walk: Distance: 6 – 14 miles (but usually under 10 miles). Climb: up to 4000’ (but usually very much less!). People involved on walks in 2020:- Martyn Harris, Fran Murphy, Sue and Michel Pelissier, Mike Dodd, David Savage, Wendy Peers, Celia de Mengle, Wendy and Ian Peers, Roger Smith, Paul Collinson, Ed Meads, Nigel and Elaine Taylor, Celia de Mengle, Sue Pearson.

Saturday 3 December 2011

Birds heard or seen on walks in 2011

Updated 3rd December 2011.  Total to date:126.
Red Kite, the bird of the day on 4th June.
(Picture from Wikipedia)
The hundreth different species of bird seen on our walks this year.
 (Picture from Wikipedia)
Ring ouzel - at least 7 different birds were seen in the area around Tal y Fan on 16th April.
Bird of the year so far!
 (Picture from Wikipedia)
Cormoran huppé
European shag, our bird of the on Saturday 12th March 2011.
(Picture from Oiseaux.net)

Greenshank, the bird of the day on Saturday 5th March 2011.
(Picture from Wikipedia)

A female Ring-necked parakeet, our most unexpected sighting this year to date.
A pair of Ring-necked parakeets, but we only saw one.
(Picture from Wikipedia.)
Barb swallow, Bar-tailed godwit, Black-billed magpie, Blackbird, Blackcap, Black-headed gull, Black-tailed godwit, Blue tit, Brent goose, Bullfinch, Chiffchaff, Chough, Coal tit, Collared dove, Common buzzard, Common coot, Common crossbill, Common gull, Commom redstart, Common sandpiper, Common starling, Common tern,Common whitethroat, Cuckoo, Curlew, Dipper, Dunlin, Dunnock, Eider duck, European robin, Feral pegeon, Fieldfare, Fulmar, Gadwall, Ganet, Goldeneye, Goldfinch, Goosander, Grasshopper warbler, Great black-backed gull, Great cormorant, Great spotted woodpecker, Great tit, Great crested grebe, Green woodpecker,Greenfinch, Greenshank, Grey heron, Grey wagtail, Greylag goose, Guillemot, He harrier, Herring gull, House sparrow, House martin, Jackdaw, Jay, Kestrel, Kittiwake, Knot, Lapwing, Lesser black-backed gull, Linnet, Little egret, Little grebe, Little gull, Long-tailed tit, Mallard, Meadow pipit, Mistle thrush, Moorhen, Muscovy duck, Mute swan, Nuthatch, Oystercatcher, Peregrine, Pheasant, Pied wagtail, Pintail, Puffin, Purple sandpiper, Raven, Razorbill, Red grouse, Red-breasted merganser, Red-legged partridge, Red kite, Redpoll, Redshank, Redstart, Redwing, Reed bunting, Ringed plover, Ring ouzel,Ring-necked parakeet, Rock dove, Rock pipit, Rook, Ruff, Sand martin,Shag, Sedge warbler, Shelduck, Short-eared owl, Skylark, Snipe, Song thrush, Stonechat, Sparrowhawk,Tawny owl, Teal, Tree sparrow, Tufted duck, Turnstone, Wheatear, Widgeon, Willow tit, Willow warbler, Winter wren, Treecreeper, Woodpigeon, Wood warbler, Yellowhammer.
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