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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: 2-7 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 2024:- Martyn Harris, Fran Murphy, Sue and Michel Pelissier, Mike Dodd, David Savage,, Ed Meads, Nigel and Elaine Taylor, Winston Feather.

Sunday 3 June 2012

Birds Seen or Heard on Walks in May 2012

Birds Seen or Heard on Walks in  may 2012

Barn swallow,

Black-billed magpie,

Blackcap,

Black-headed gull,

Blue tit,

Canada goose,

Carrion crow,

Chaffinch,

Chiffchaff,

Coal tit,

Collared dove,

Common blackbird

Common buzzard,

Common coot,

Common crow,

Common pheasant,

Common starling,

Common swift,

Common tern,

Cuckoo,

Curlew,

Dunlin,

Dunnock,

Eurasian curlew,

Eurasian Jay,

European robin,

Ferral pigeon, 

Gadwall,

Golden plover,

Goldfinch,

Great cormorant,

Great crested grebe,

Great spotted woodpecker,

Great tit,

Greater black-backed gull,

Greenfinch,

Greenland Wheatear

Grey heron,

Grey partridge,

Grey wagtail,

Greylag goose,

Guillemot,

Herring gull,

House martin,

House sparrow,

Jackdaw

Jackdaw,

Kestrel,

Lapwing,

Lesser black-backed gull,

Linnet,

Little grebe,

Long-tailed tit,

Mallard

Meadow pipit,

Mistle thrush,

Moorhen,

Mute swan,

Nuthatch,

Osprey,

Oystercatcher,

Pied wagtail,

Raven,

Red grouse,

Red kite,

Red-breasted merganser,

Red-legged partridge,

Redstart,

Reed bunting,

Ring ouzel,

Ringed plover,

Rook,

Sand martin,

Sandwich tern,

Sedge warbler,

Shag,

Shelduck,

Skylark,

Song thrush,

Sparrowhawk,

Swift,

Treecreeper,

Tufted duck,

Wheatear,

White wagtail,

Whitethroat,

Willow warbler,

Winter wren,

Woodpigeon,

Yellowhammer,

Total 90

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