After the break of fourteen weeks since the event of 2 September, thanks to my good friend Mike, I achieved a couple of hours birding in exchange for taxiing and escorting me around the Lune Estuary.Of note on Conder Pool, 6 Goosander and 14 …
Author: Pete Woodruff
OT.
On a suggestion by the team, more occupational therapy was required. So armed with a pair of binoculars I could turn the therapy into a welcome spell of birding with KT through Williamson Park on Friday….Chocks away!An influx of at least 12…
I’D SOONER BE BIRDING!
I spotted a moth to photograph in the garden in the week, which at least gave me a little material to give the breath of life to Birds2blog until I get the green flag for birding again. It was The Vapourer, a caterpillar of which I had photog…
No Migrants For Me….
….nor any other birds sadly….but I live in hope! Black-tailed Godwit with Ruff. Howard Stockdale.A disappointment in that a record was buried beneath my health scare before I could submit it to my man in Iceland. But I have now recieved the li…
A Breath Of Life.
Sounds a little dramatic, but wasn’t meant to, rather than meaning to give a breath of life to Birds2blog whilst I get back some sort of normality again, and just to thank everyone who passed on to to me their good wishes via e-mail, phone, and card, I…
The Last Post….
….well hopefully not!As luck would have it I had drafted this post last Saturday 1st September, the night before the stroke put me on the ground, and so it was almost ready to publish with a bit of an edit.This post was always going to be titled ‘My …
Terned Out Nice Again!
Two adult Common Tern put in another brief appearance over Conder Pool again, one with a fish being chased by the other, but soon flew off. Although the breeders will have wandered during the summer months, for a species that breeds nowhere e…
Anything Interesting….
….asked the man walking up to me at Cockersand.Common Tern Plover Scar Cockersand. Pete Woodruff.So I pointed out to him at the high tide roost at Cockersand, 2 Common Tern were on the seaward edge of Plover Scar with 330 waders landward, 1…
Oh No….Not Conder Green Again.
Conder Green again….an addiction I hope I can never kick.Greenshank Conder Pool 25 August. Pete Woodruff.On a return visit to Conder Green in the afternoon, 12 Greenshank were in the creeks, ten of which had been on Conder Pool in the morning, a prev…
Two Around The Green.
Ruff Conder Green 23 August. Pete Woodruff.In a couple of hours around the Conder Green area, I found another influx of 9 Common Sandpiper, I’ve never seen this number before at Conder Green in late August. A Ruff was in the creeks with Redshank a…