Oh dear, the blog stats don’t look too good today after a week without a post. But Blogger tells me that “Page View All Time History” passed the one million mark at 1,008,401 from 1428 posts since August 2009, so all is not lost. Someone deserves a me…
Brief encounter(s)
A dawn visit to Hesketh yesterday looking through the duck, was interrupted when an wader flushed from one of the pools by the bank – it stayed fairly low, did a couple of circles quite close to me and then headed off towards the east part of the reserve where it appeared to drop in. […]
Goosing is the Anser
Really enjoyed the close up views of a flock of about 2,000 Pinks in Banks recently. Few things are more relaxing and absorbing than watching and listening to a settled goose flock feed. Highlight has undoubtedly been the Greenland Whitefront that’s been with them every time I’ve scanned the flock. There seems to have been […]
Daylight Robbery
I’ve been robbed of a number of days birding lately by our November weather, the month that invariably brings gloomy, wet and windy days across the Atlantic from the direction of North America. I blame Donald Trump. There’s no other feasible expl…
The River
I apologise for a lack of posts of late dear readers, it’s been mainly due to poor weather that I haven’t been out. In fact I haven’t even managed to get any work surveys in since 2nd November! I had an aborted trip earlier in the week to one of my win…
Easy Asio
An early start at Hesketh hoping for a repeat of the Wigeonfest from yesterday. The number of duck on the reserve at the minute is incredible, but the high tides have put a lot of water into the pools so they’re spread out and take a long time to work through. Highlight of the day […]
Indoor Post
Looks like I won’t get out birding or ringing for a few more days. To put it mildly, the weather is crap by way of the usual wet and wind. But hopefully 2018/19 may turn out to be a “Brambling Winter”, an irruption year for this close relative of …
Comment on Four hen harriers disappear on Scottish grouse moors in suspicious circumstances
I have pressed like to the post, but I’m truly appalled about this continued destruction of our wildlife. I am not one of the people who put effort into protecting and tagging the Hen Harriers which were tagged, and it must be worse for them. Thanks t…
Blog Post: Four hen harriers disappear on Scottish grouse moors in suspicious circumstances
Dr Cathleen Thomas, Hen Harrier LIFE Project Manager, reports on the sudden disappearances of four more tagged hen harriers in Scotland in suspicious circumstances. Following our recent blogs on the suspicious disappearances of Hilma, Octavia, Heulwen…
Norwegian Brambling and Other News
Mark and Dave had a wonderful surprise on the 2nd when the only Brambling they caught carried a Norwegian ring. The group has only ringed 375 over the years and our only other foreign recovery was from The Netherlands.They also had a …