I was hoping for another super goose day today, but there just weren’t the numbers on the estuary compared to recent days. The main group was on inland fields near Crossens and there was probably 3,000 at max count. Best bird was a different young Russian Whitefront from last weeks – this one has no […]
A Raptor Kind Of Day
After declaring that I would be out surveying at least four days this week, three of the days fell through! On Monday access wasn’t arranged in time for the site that I was at today, Tuesday I set off for northwest Cumbria and it rained all the way fro…
Consolation Prize
The Linnets gave Andy and me the run around again this morning; they just weren’t having our attempts at a catch. After three hours of watch and wait we came to the conclusion that the 150 or so Linnets of recent weeks are now wise to our antics. This …
Timing Is Everything
Timing is everything, and this morning Gail and I got our timing wrong. We had to go and get some logs for our wood burner and our plan was to have a look at the quay on the falling tide. We like looking at the quay on the falling tide as the mudflats …
Resurrection.
I’m as yet not able to bird – definitely not able to bird as I knew it – since 2 September, in fact my few attempts to do so have been abysmal, and as my last post on 2 January made clear, Birds2blog was closed for refurbishment, and that I would …
A Quiet Morning With Just One ‘Red’ Bird
I headed to the Obs this morning and had a look on the sea, but it was very quiet. It wasn’t a bad morning weather-wise with 4 oktas cloud cover and a 15 mph south-westerly wind. The view from the Obs this morningI parked my car and walked to the …
Spiffing old Bean
Great to be back on the Ribble today after my exciting excursions to the Fylde last week (Goose odyssey and Ten-acious). I started with a dawn visit to Ainsdale to coincide with the high tide. Not masses of birds, but a nice range of waders. Highlight was a single Turnstone, but also a very tame Barwit fed […]
Another Cracking ‘Red’ Bird
The alarm went off at 5:15 a.m. for Gail and I to head off to my wintering bird survey site in Cheshire. On arrival we were greeted with clear skies, with a moderate SSE wind. It was a glorious morning, but I didn’t envisage recording too much of inter…
Now’s The Time
A Tawny Owl hooted from the trees in the next door neighbour’s garden: it was very dark with little time to look, but the owl was very close. The owls breed in a nearby copse, our garden on the edge of their territory. This morning was my first ri…
Kite-tastic
I wasn’t expecting to be posting again until the end of the week, but as you might have guessed from my blog title I had a Red Kite this morning. “So what”, I can hear you say, “Red Kites are everywhere now”! But, not round here they ain’t.I was survey…