Category Archives: MNA reports

Plenty of highlights on the MNA holiday to East Anglia during the first week in June. Raptors included Marsh Harriers, Hobby, Red Kite, Buzzard. Nightjars and roding Woodcock at dusk close to the Wolferton Triangle. Common Cranes at the Lakenheath … Continue reading →

Ken says: I thought you would like to see some of my images taken this year. Black Grouse Lekking on Ruabon Moor Black Grouse fighting on the Lek Great Crested Grebes at Carr Mill Dam, mating Great Crested Grebes feeding … Continue reading →

Richard Surman, Dave Bryant and I headed over to Wales driving through Corwen and onto Cynwyd where we passed through the village for a mile before climbing a narrow road for another mile parking at the end beside a barn. … Continue reading →

Four MNA members met at Bootle Post Office and another joined us on the way. I suspect most people were worried about the weather forecast, which had predicted heavy rain all day. However, it was dry when we set out. … Continue reading →

After circumnavigating the Staffordshire Market Town of Leek on a road diversion we eventually arrived at the RSPB Reserve at Coombes Valley. Coombes Valley was formed at the end of the last ice age, some 10,000yrs ago. A massive ice … Continue reading →

Report from Tony Carter. The North West Fungus Group held a foray at Carr Mill Dam. The site was chosen because it was thought that, after a couple of very dry springs, the boggy areas held more prospect of finding … Continue reading →

Just after a very heavy rain shower three MNA members met at Sir Thomas Street, and if the other two hadn’t turned up, I was planning to go home! Three more got on the bus, and at Our Lady’s RC … Continue reading →

Richard Surman, DaveB and I headed out to Cilcain near Mold in Flinshire, North Wales for the day. We turned off the A494 onto a single track lane beside the entrance to Loggerheads CP and continued a few miles into … Continue reading →

Nineteen MNA members joined our first coach trip of 2014 to White Coppice near Chorley in Lancashire. It has been 7 years since we last visited this location on an abysmally wet day. Thankfully today’s similar wet forecast didn’t materialise … Continue reading →

Report from Tony Carter:  The North West Fungus Group started their spring foray at Freshfield Station. Moving through the mixed woodland a few spring-loving gilled fungi were seen, Clitocybe fragrans (Fragrant Funnel) and the always-present Strobilurus tenacellus (Pinecone Cap) on … Continue reading →