We have booked a group booking to be shown round the reserve adjacent to the Manchester Ship canal below the M6 Thelwall Viaduct.  This will be led by a local warden and will cost £5 each and will hopefully involve seeing the Back Necked Grebes and reed bed species.  Full details to follow.

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Weekend away to Anglesey based on staying around Holyhead.  Proposed itinerary would be. Saturday South Stack – Chough, Puffins and seabirds Holyhead Harbour – Black Guillemot Soldier Point evening walk Sunday Pre breakfast Walk at the Range, South Stack Cemlyn Bay am -Tern Colony Little Tern Gronant (way home)

Meet at the North Cave Wetland car park, Dryham Lane, Market Weighton East Riding of Yorkshire HU15 2LY (What.3. words///sage.scoop.limo) We will explore this expanding nature reserve looking for passage waders and passerines.  After lunch here we will travel home via Swillington Ings, Castleford from the Fleet Lane entrance (What.3. words///valid.jukebox.composers)

Meet at parking area at side of the road south of Grimethorpe (What.3. words///audibly.scorpions.shorter).  We will view this large lake where Black winged stilts bred in 2023 for ducks, such as Garganey, and waders before moving onto Old Moor for Waders and hopefully a few reedbed species