The count on Conder Pool was the same as my visit last Monday, being 12 Greenshank and 11 Little Grebe. In the creeks, 3 Avocet seen were two juvenile and an adult, though the family was all present and correct earlier in the day, thanks to A…
Fledged And Flown.
Juvenile Common Tern Conder Pool. Howard Stockdale.Many thanks to Howard for what is probably the last image of this juvenile before it’s obvious departure from Conder Pool by the time I arrived there on Monday. Who could have imagined this bird would …
Keeping Up Appearances!
Like the train now arriving on Platform 2, this post is running late, but here we go….My plans for Thursday didn’t include any birding, but it was almost as if it was a duty for me, that I went to Conder Green for a couple of hours in the afternoon, …
Sunshine On the Solway
August has been quite a rough old month so far, and the weather Gods haven’t been smiling on us when it comes to getting out ringing at the weekends. Last Thursday, the last sunny day before the wet windy westerly weather we are having at the minute ca…
Ian Pinkerton.
I have just received a phone call to give me some personally devastating news that Ian (Pinky) Pinkerton has died suddenly.Ian met and made many friends at Conder Green where he became the all conquering hero when it came to monitoring the ups and…
Sweet 16
A blustery and wet morning session at Hesketh, was challenging and rewarding at the same time. The waders were constantly moving in the wind and with birds coming and going, it was very difficult to get any decent images. However, I managed to get up to 16 species which is not bad going. A few […]
Scotland to Ireland, But Not Via the Old Scotch Road
There’s been a lot of Painted Lady butterflies about recently, and you have probably noticed this. Before I headed off on my visit to Ireland I was giving my car one of it’s rare cleans over a lunchtime period towards the end of July, and I had about t…
Garden Ringing update
Paid our third visit this summer to Jerry and Barbara’s woodland edge garden in Silverdale. With only one 40 ft net we caught 80 birds. Our main interest in this garden is a colour ring study of Nuthatch, so we were pleased to catch two unringed young …
Encore!
I think we can all look forward to three excellent breeding records to come off Conder Pool this year. With one pair of Common Tern already having fledged two birds and departed, and another pair with two fledged young, having survived a near fatal att…
Catch Up
Birding and ringing took a back seat this week as school holidays and grandparent priorities came first. Thursday was the first available morning for me so I drove to Conder Green for a catch up before the main task of the day, Gulf Lane. The wat…