A post with good value for money, serving the purpose of sharing the less pleasant side of birding, and is published in agreement with the person in the spotlight on this issue. OK, so whats the problem there then?….Well there are lots of p…
Lets face it….The reality is, my birding is on it’s arse, and the blog heading for liquidation. But welcome e-mails and excellent photographs are gratefully received, and are keeping me up to date on things in and around the area….
….and another good idea.Following the – short on clarity – advice by the Right Honorable Boris Johnson, to be able to go out in your car to wherever and whenever you wish whilst maintaining social distancing, the therapeutic value…
Dug out a notebook on bird behaviour I started 20 years ago in 2000. The first entry in the book was of a Common Cuckoo seen at Barbondale, it was published in the British Birds issue in January 2002.The Call of the Common Cuckoo.I watched a male Commo…
Dug out a notebook on bird behaviour I started 20 years ago in 2000. The first entry in the book was of a Common Cuckoo seen at Barbondale, it was published in the British Birds issue in January 2002.The Call of the Common Cuckoo.I watched a male Commo…
I was grateful for an e-mail and photo attachment informing me of a quite amazing coincidence. Following on from my post about the Woodchat Shrike at Aldcliffe 8 May 2014, the message was to tell me of a Red Backed Shrike found yesterday again at …
Sifting through the archives again, I found I’d had a lucky break during a two hour visit to Aldcliffe six years ago today on 8 May 2014. I had dealt with some business in Lancaster by 12.15pm, but had to return there by 2.30, so my best plan…
I always remember my mentor John Leedal saying to me, May was the best month of the year. Well, from the single point of view that this month sees the return of the Common Tern to Conder Green, he was obviously spot on there. I was confi…
I always remember my mentor John Leedal saying to me, May was the best month of the year. Well, from the single point of view that this month sees the return of the Common Tern to Conder Green, he was obviously spot on there. I was confi…
Not for the first time an Osprey visited Brockholes NR this spring, in fact it these days it is regular for them to do so during the migration period, but this bird had decided to linger and had the reserve staff and birders alike, hoping that the stay…