Category Archives: Sunday Group

(Report by John Clegg) After getting off the 300 bus the walk started in Hall Lane, with Rooks flying around the church. We crossed the Racing Stables, where there were Lapwings on the gallops and we had lunch on the … Continue reading →

The motor cyclists were gathering for the Egg Run in William Brown Street this morning, many of them dressed as chickens and bunnies. And since it was April Fool’s Day, the morning radio had been talking about donkey rustling for … Continue reading →

This was one of John’s mystery destinations, and it turned out to be a small park on the north side of the East Lancashire Road, between Lower Lane and Stonebridge Lane, near to the sewage works and opposite the Showcase … Continue reading →

With the promise of a high tide, we took the 487 to Parkgate, and as we travelled through suburban Wirral we admired the early-flowering pink and white cherry trees, Forsythias, masses of daffodils, and a few Magnolias just about to … Continue reading →

It wasn’t a wildlife day today. We went to see HMS Liverpool at the Pier Head, then took the bus down to Sudley House in Mossley Hill to look at the Costume Exhibition.  Despite the sunshine, it was cold with … Continue reading →

Following reports of several Short-eared Owls seen hunting over Sefton Meadows in recent weeks, we thought we’d try our luck, but didn’t have any success. Perhaps we left too early for them, perhaps it was the noise of the microlight … Continue reading →

It was a brilliantly sunny day, but still cold at 6 degrees. The park lake had the usual Mallards, Coots, Moorhens, Mute Swans and Canada Geese, but also some Greylag Geese and a solitary Tufted Duck. Hundreds of Black-headed Gulls … Continue reading →

It was warmer today (but only about 4 degrees) and with thick cloud cover. The tide was coming in as we walked all around the causeway of West Kirby Marine Lake. A few of the Black-headed Gulls had nearly finished … Continue reading →

Snow had been promised for the whole country, but Merseyside escaped. Nonetheless it was a very much reduced group of only four that met on a cold and frosty morning at Queen Square. We were thinking of going to to … Continue reading →

Our first Sunday walk of 2012 was on a cold, still day with the temperature just above freezing. At the south end of Sefton Park lake the usual crowd of Mute Swans, Canada Geese, Mallards, pigeons and Black-headed Gulls were … Continue reading →