The plan yesterday was to check out Harrisend, but not until I had taken a look at Grisedale Brook for Golden Ringed Dragonfly. Maybe too late now, as the flight season runs out by late August, but being a good sunny warm day I thought maybe just a cha…
Walking along the Roeburndale Road, then left on to the grit track to the wind turbines, and return to Brookhouse via Quarry Road was a perfectly timed plan. Please clik the piks.The bulk of birds were found along and around the wall stretching th…
Monday was too good a day to miss. The weather can be good during September, but maybe we won’t get another day quite as nice as Monday again this year.Painted Lady. Pete Woodruff.So I did a circuit Glasson – Conder Green – Glasson along the canal towp…
I had other plans on Thursday, but they fell apart and I ended up at Heysham to check the gulls on Red Nab as the tide came in.When I arrived at Heysham the tide was around 2 hours short of high and there was c.500 gulls on the seaward edge of Red Nab,…
The Heather at Birk Bank at its best 12 August. Pete Woodruff. I performed a couple of Houdini acts this past week, one was an escape to the fringes of Bowland where I managed an update on the dragonflies of Birk Bank bog.Birk…
Come Friday, it will be 17 years since I found a nice little job on the Lune Estuary on 14 August 2003. It was a bike and bino’s day – well there’s a novelty – my car being out on hire. I decided to take the ex railway track, now the coastal path …
It’s a year ago today 5 August, since I last saw Ian Pinkerton as he drove away from Conder Pool to go home to Wigan for the weekend with Yvonne. Ian asked if I would keep an eye on the Avocet family which he was hoping to see fledge soon, he…
Limestone Pavement Gait Barrows. Pete Woodruff.The landscape at Gait Barrows has been shaped over years, large areas of the reserve lies on Carboniferous limestone laid down millions of years ago. I have only ever once been to Gait Barrows, a…
I had two excellent e-mails over the weekend, excellent because one included an attachment with the bird in my header image, which is still present on Conder Pool today. I find it amazing how time flies, when I discovered it was 6 years ago I foun…
….I took three photographs of butterflies just about reaching my standard, including the well marked female Large White in our garden in the header pik.But the weather on Friday wasn’t quite as good as I had hoped for, and the hunt for drag…