Curlew Conder Pool. Pete Woodruff. Clik the pikI was desperate to get a pik for the post, so took this one of the Curlew on Conder Pool.I wandered off down the A588 on Tuesday, but on the way, called in briefly to Conder Pool, I find it difficult to ig…
More Thrush
The forecast for Tuesday morning was about as good as it gets just lately – a gentle breeze from the north with a fair amount of cloud that would slowly break. That was enough to motivate us to head for Oakenclough again where Andy and I met up at 0645…
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By Recent Standards….A Nice Day.
Weather-wise a nice day, if there’s not even a hint of a breeze at Cockersand it’s certainly a nice day, but a couple of bod’s out on Plover Scar meant the end of any chance of a roost, but n’er mind, there’s more to Cockersand than a high tide roost. …
Wot No Piks!
It’s now even more difficult to access the still rising number of grebe on Conder Pool, with channels to go down, and islands to get behind now the pool has flooded again, but after the customary multi-attempts, at least 18 Little G…
Back Into Action
Saturday 12 0ctober. I gave my ringing pliers a squirt of WD40. What with the trip to Greece and then the bad weather, they’d been deprived of action since 8 September. This morning it was back to Oakenclough hoping to see and to catch some autu…
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An interesting and informative blog from Jack, Cathleen. Can one of you look at this post please I’ve not seen anything from the Skydancer team to say that many have been lost unless I’ve missed it. https://community.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/f/all-creatures/205735/rspb-satellite-tagged-hen-harrier-vanishes-in-suspicious-circumstances-in-the-north-york-moors
Immersed On The Merse
Earlier this week I had some tree assessments to do in Red Kite country in Dumfries and Galloway, and if you were to draw an imaginary line from Dalbeattie, to Castle Douglas to Balmaclellan at the top of Loch Ken, all of my tree assessments weren’t fa…
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Assistant Investigations Officer – Jack Ashton-Booth – from the Hen Harrier LIFE Project, talks us through the secret to uncovering a hen harrier’s history. The seasons have turned, and the autumn skies have grown big, blue and crisp. As our hen harrie…
Out For A Duck!….
….and one or two other birds.There was no more than 40 Teal at Conder Green yesterday, but despite sifting through every last one of ’em, I failed to see the juvenile male Garganey….another first for the green, been here since 28 September.Con…