After seeing him the day before on Jeremy Lane, when his final tally for the day was 15 Stonechat, I wasn’t too surprised to see AC turn up at Cockersand on Wednesday to learn his total for the day was another 15, bringing him to the grand total …
Stonechat. Ian Stephenson. Clik the pikStonechat migration is in full swing. Over the two days 2-3 March, I’ve taken note of 30 Stonechat, the majority being passage birds on the Fylde, with 15 credited to AC who I met on Jeremy Lane to be told he’d al…
….turns into a dead duck!I’m often heard to say things like ‘every birding day is good birding day’ and rarely have cause to put my birding down, but Thursday was an exception to the rule.Five White-fronted Geese were reported on Aldcliffe Marsh on 1…
Conder Pool holds more water now than it ever has in it’s history, the marker showed above 9.0 with the tip of the post almost dipping below the surface. A Kingfisher added a little colour as it zipped across the pool, also noted, 38 Wigeon, 37 Teal, a…
Knot. Howard Stockdale. Clik the pikThis Knot was one of Howards birds seen at Hest Bank 2 February. The bird was ringed in the East Dutch area of the Wadden Sea in November 2018, and was the first sighting since then.Howards amazing encounter with the…
The image sent to me of the Knot at the high tide roost at Heysham was an absolute must for the new header on Birds2blog. Howard told me about 6 hours of pleasure he spent photographing these birds, amongst which he said he found a mix of no less than …
And….Great birds in great places.Clik the piksStorm Ciara combined with a high tide was responsible for some serious damage to a couple of sections of the sea wall at Cockersand. It’s my understanding that Natural England takes no responsibility of m…
I was quite surprised to find in my records, it is over 7 months since I last visited Harrisend on 27 June last year when I found 5 Stonechat, and that it was over 3 months since I checked out Hawthornthwaite, and found 3 possibly 4 Stonechat there on …
After a break from the Lune Estuary – 10 days actually – I was back on parade there yesterday. But since 15 January, Heysham has been the location for me, being I saw 6 Brent Geese, after which I got hooked on the unprecedented numbers of the birds the…
Keen as mustard, I was off to Heysham on Thursday to keep myself up to date on the phenomenon that is ‘The Heysham Brents’.I was at Heysham a good three hours before high tide, to find 60 Pale-bellied Brent Geese and a single Dark-bellied Brent Goose f…