On Monday I went for another two pennyworth of the Snow Bunting on Plover Scar, saw a Sparrowhawk disappearing into a bush at Bank Houses, a Buzzard soaring over Abbey Farm, and a little evidence of Skylark and Meadow Pipit movement. Notes from th…
Author: Pete Woodruff
The Triple Whammy.
It was one thing to get a phone call in the evening last Wednesday, but everything got a lot more interesting as it went along and blew me a little off balance.Snow Bunting Plover Scar 16 October Clik the pikI got news of a Sno…
Plover Scar Delivers.
There was a spectacular mix of corvids on the Lune Estuary on Thursday as viewed from the bowling green, they were all over the place and impossible to count, they numbered at least 500, with a maximum of probably up to 700. In order of&…
A Change Of Scenery.
Curlew Conder Pool. Pete Woodruff. Clik the pikI was desperate to get a pik for the post, so took this one of the Curlew on Conder Pool.I wandered off down the A588 on Tuesday, but on the way, called in briefly to Conder Pool, I find it difficult to ig…
By Recent Standards….A Nice Day.
Weather-wise a nice day, if there’s not even a hint of a breeze at Cockersand it’s certainly a nice day, but a couple of bod’s out on Plover Scar meant the end of any chance of a roost, but n’er mind, there’s more to Cockersand than a high tide roost. …
Wot No Piks!
It’s now even more difficult to access the still rising number of grebe on Conder Pool, with channels to go down, and islands to get behind now the pool has flooded again, but after the customary multi-attempts, at least 18 Little G…
Out For A Duck!….
….and one or two other birds.There was no more than 40 Teal at Conder Green yesterday, but despite sifting through every last one of ’em, I failed to see the juvenile male Garganey….another first for the green, been here since 28 September.Con…
A Little Healthier, A Little Longer.
A bit more action on Thursday resulted in a healthier looking list than Mondays shortie, and I was at Glasson Dock 3 hours before to see the rising tide moving birds around. There was something of a spectacle with at least 620 Greylag on the …
The Short List.
If your name is on the short list in a competition it’s good news, you’ll be in with a chance, and could be a winner. But this short list was the result of a couple of hours birding yesterday, and certainly wasn’t a winner, despite a bit of effort resu…
Estuary Notes Weds 25 Oct.
When I met Andrew and Michael at Conder Green, there was a couple of surprises in store for us all. Just when we thought we’d seen the last of the hirundines for 2019 save the odd straggler, the skies over the picnic area seen from Conder Poo…