A week after our return from holiday and the necessary catch-ups completed it was time to check out a few local places. I started at Cockerham Quarry where the Sand Martin colony should be well underway. It was – many dozens of holes and a hive o…
A Scops For Breakfast
There’s a story behind the Scops Owl in the picture below. It’s not the best quality photograph and that’s because it’s a photo of a photo.”Click the pics” in turn for owls and scenes from Menorca Two friends of ours, Alan and Jane, who also go t…
The Estuary Terns et al.
Not easy to be accurate about the number around the Lune Estuary yesterday, but I reckon over a five hour period 6 Common Tern were seen in five sightings. When I arrived at Conder Pool, two birds were present, whist I was there four joined the two and…
Pied Flycatchers in Potts Wood
Following on from John’s post, I paid my first trip to the nest boxes in Pott Yeats, Littledale today. There are 43 boxes there that have held small numbers of Pied Flycatchers in recent years, 2018 was typical with 5 pairs all successful. …
Blog Post: Spring Sorrow – Skylar and Marci’s tags suddenly stop
It is with a heavy heart that just as the excitement of the breeding season gets under way, we must report the loss of two more of our hen harriers, Skylar and Marci. Skylar was a symbol of hope for the project team, who were very excited to follow her…
Tiny dancer
A thoroughly enjoyable morning spent mostly at Marshside. Spurred on by the Stilt Sand (great find by the way – bet that got the pulse racing), and in all honesty hoping it had relocated to Marshside over night, I’d planned to get there early. That plan was scuppered on the way there though as news […]
Late News….Again.
There was a peak count of 10 Avocet at Conder Green on Thursday, five in the creeks, and five on Conder Pool which brings me to believe only the one bird was still sitting. I saw a Common Tern briefly on Conder Pool, it was on the right hand end o…
Do The Splits
We are back from Menorca where we spent two weeks enjoying this wonderful island for the fifteenth year.We collected a Fiat Panda from Mahon Airport via our good friends Setta and Mixalis at Momple Car Hire. The little Panda is the ideal car…
5 in 1
This glorious weather we are having at the moment, there I will have jinxed it now, is playing havoc with my social life (very little real ale being consumed) and also reducing the amount of time I have to update my blog and do other computer related s…
As Good As It Gets.
I had an excellent day between Marshaw and east of Trough Bridge to log 26 species yesterday. Not a mega number of species counted, but a good reflection of birds to be expected seen at this location. With some species missing, notably Redstart and Dip…