Category Archives: MNA reports

  23 MNA members joined the coach for our visit to the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs in East Yorkshire. Looking back at my records it is five years since we had visited the reserve so there were a lot … Continue reading →

MNA members John from Biobank and Martin Corcoran headed up onto the fells during our visit to Stocks Reservoir on 4th June 2011. They came across a pile of bird pellets on a rock amongst the moorland vegetation and brought me a … Continue reading →

Terry, Dave Bryant and me headed up to Hay Bridge, the private reserve owned by the John Strutt Conservation Foundation (JSCF) nestling in the Rusland Valley in Cumbria. As ever we were to have a wonderful day with a variety … Continue reading →

This was a joint MNA / RSPB trip, but although there were 12 MNA members (some with dual membership) there were no RSPB-only people. It was sunny some of the time, but a fresh breeze kept the temperature down. Four … Continue reading →

19 MNA members joined the coach trip visiting a new venue for the group at United Utilities Stocks Reservoir near Slaidburn in the picturesque Trough of Bowland, Lancashire. It turned out to be a fantastic day and a place many … Continue reading →

Four members met at the Druid’s Inn for an evening meal – David, Alexander, Ann and me. We met two more at the Rainbow afterwards (father and son from Chester, new members, can’t recall your names, sorry.) Regrettably, despite a … Continue reading →

Here are John Clegg’s Walney pictures. Herring gull at nest Lesser Black-backed gull at nest Ringed plover at nest John commented that this is a rare two-billed Eider, perhaps affected by radioactive emissions from the nearby Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant. … Continue reading →

MNA coach trip with 20 members visiting the South Walney Reserve run by the Cumbria Wildlife Trust. The area consists of a shingle island with lagoons where salt, sand & gravel were extracted during the 19th and 20th centuries. As … Continue reading →

Heavy downpours and Merseyrail engineering works didn’t put off the sixteen members of the MNA / Sunday Nature Group who reached Leasowe Lighthouse for our Spring migrants meeting. We had a good route around the area, wandering along Lingham Lane checking out … Continue reading →

13 people met for this joint MNA / RSPB walk, starting from Liverpool Central or Overpool Merseyrail stations.  Only one Liverpool RSPB member, but several of the MNA regulars have dual membership. Two or three others were MNA members on … Continue reading →