Yes….the Stonechat takes centre stage on B2B once again.The last time I visited Birk Bank for any chance of seeing Stonechat or anything else, was on 22 June 2018. But last week I was on Birk Bank and well chuffed to find 14 Stonechat….
When I looked through my records, by coincidence I had chosen the same date as last year for a saunter along the canal towpath Glasson Dock – Galgate yesterday. Having walked an extra 2 miles this time, I didn’t even equal let alone exce…
Tip of the iceberg stuff in the expanse that is the Forest of Bowland, where we’ll never know the true picture on the status of birds, in particular my very own favourite. A trip up the west and east sides of Hawthornthwaite Fell earlier in t…
I’ve spent endless hours engrossed in birding at Cockersand, often there until dusk and beyond, and occasionally got drenched in a downpour with nowhere to hide. I always had my camera to hand for the scenery if not for the birds. VIEW F…
September has been a decent month for me in the past, and some searching through the records has turned up a little interest out of the little black book.I have to divert from September to start with the oldest, and note the record of a Lesse…
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…