Army Birding

Thanks Richard for helping us out with this one. Schwingmoors are often said to be very rare habitats for the UK and best left unvisited unless under expert guidance. That said we have number in this part of the country in Shropshire and Cheshire. Noted that you are back in action. Good luck Rodney

It is a floating peat bog - "Schwingmoor" auf Deutsch - formed by a layer of vegetation spreading across the surface of a body of water. Others have called it a "quaking bog". Trees may grow on a Schwingmoor, and I understand they will sway when someone walks near them. However as far as I am concer...

It is a very long time (too long) since I posted as sighting on this excellent website. This morning I was out walking around the local Wybunbury Moss, a RAMSAR site a few hundred metres from my house and one of the few and outstanding examples of a 'swingmoor' in this country. We were I suppose 300...

Just to let you know that we saw a Spoonbill on the River Dee yesterday (24 Aug) close to Connah's Quay Reserve which has apparently been in the area for the past week. It was at first sleeping close to 2 Little Egrets and a Heron. Then it gave us a fly past before settling again on a mudflat in the...