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Parkgate High Tides - Will They or Won't They?

With just days to go before our first Parkgate high tide event of the year, there is much excitement in the air as numerous phonecalls, emails and enquiries begin to ask the familiar old questions.

• Where is the best place to go?
• What is the best time to be there?
• What is the best day to come?
• Will the tide come all the way in?

High Tide at Parkgate by Chris Smith

The answer is that even we don't really know the answers and isn't that just the best thing about nature, that even we cannot, with all our modern technology and experience, predict exactly what, where and when.

The only thing we can say with some conviction is that if you are not there and the tide does come in rapidly then you will definitely miss out on arguably the best wildlife spectacle in the North.

For those of you who have not been before then this is probably the only time that the layman can see the true value of protecting such a vast wilderness, as hundreds of small mammals and thousands of birds flee the incoming waters (NB for the lovers of tooth and claw nature, this fleeing wildlife spectacle obviously attracts the attention of the local predators such as short-eared owls, hen harriers and foxes).

If you have never seen a brown hare swimming, a water rail taking refuge in a back pack nor a skylark taking cover in a car, then get yourself down to the Old Baths car park, Parkgate, just a few hundered metres from the Boathouse Pub. RSPB Staff and Volunteers will be on hand with telescopes to explain all the shenanigans on the following days:

Friday 9th March, Saturday 10th March, Sunday 11th March

All events start at 9am for us and the hardened birdwatchers but feel free to pop along anytime until early afternoon.

Further Info - http://www.rspb.org.uk/events/details.aspx?id=tcm:9-301081

Or phone 0151 353 8478/336 7681

Paul Brady, RSPB

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Comments

Robin H

At 10:07 on 7th March 2012, Robin H commented:

We're pleased to see them but, for the convenience of residents and other visitors, please will the birdwatchers and their buses have regard for the one-way working and reduced parking on The Parade and take care not to obstruct the narrow pavement with their paraphernalia. Perhaps the police will be on hand to regulate traffic?

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wirral blue

At 15:30 on 10th March 2012, wirral blue commented:

what a load of garbage the police never visit parkgate like the old days? if they did so-called motorists would all get fined for their antics .

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