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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, 1 July 2012

Birds Seen in June 2012

Birds Seen or Heard in June 2012.


Barn swallow,

Black-billed magpie,

Blackcap,

Black-headed gull,

Blue tit,

Bullfinch,

Carrion crow,

Chaffinch,

Chiffchaff,

Collared dove,

Common blackbird,

Common buzzard,

Common coot,

Common pheasant,

Common starling,

Common swift,

Common tern,

Common whitethroat,

Dunnock,

Eurasian curlew,

Eurasian jay,

European robin,

Feral pigeon,

Garden warbler,

Goldfinch,

Great black-backed gull,

Great cormorant,

Green woodpecker,

Greenfinch,

Grey wagtail,

Herring gull,

House martin,

House sparrow,

Jackdaw,

Kestrel,

Lesser black-backed gull,

Little tern,

Mallard,

Meadow pipit,

Mute swan,

Oystercatcher,

Pied wagtail,

Pied wagtail,

Raven,

Raven, Winter wren,

Red-billed chough,

Red-legged partridge,

Redstart,

Reed bunting,

Ring ouzel,

Rook,

Sedge warbler,

Shag,

Shelduck,

Skylark
Song thrush,

Stonechat,

Tufted duck,

Whinchat,

Willow warbler,

Winter wren,

Woodpigeon,

Yellowhammer,

Total different birds seen or heard: 62

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