A walk east along the route known as Millennium Park, a footpath along the old railway line running alongside the River Lune to Caton, brought about some memories for me, and a surprise….Well three actually! Mediterranean Gull. Pete Woodruff.&nb…
But first….Steve Graham and myself entered the world of twitchers at Conder Green where we went on the circuit and relocated the Temminck’s Stint in the creeks below River Winds. A smart little adult stint still wearing some brown, buff and grey…
Bombus lucorum Hawthornthwaite Fell. Pete Woodruff.I’m walking along the grit track on Hawthornthwaite Fell and finding lots of White-tailed Bumblebee on Thistle. Bombus lapidarius Hawthornthwaite Fell. Pete Woodruff.But hang …
Staying home and keeping cool for a couple of days during the heat wave, and since the cooldown no opportunities for any freedom, has given me the opportunity to collate a selection of the second quarter of this years Stonechat records – 100+…
It was time this week, for another wander around the area and to check around the bog at Birk Bank, where I have found odonata having a lack of variety over the past couple of visits….But mustn’t grumble.Golden Ringed Dragonfly July 13…
On Monday, I gave Grisedale Brook 2 hours to find 12 Golden-ringed Dragonfly, the result of staking out for 1/4 mile at three positions to Holme Wood. Of these twelve sightings, I eliminated four as duplicate counts, bringing the count to eight.Also se…
Having made my plans, I scrounged a lift to Galgate and walked the canal towpath back to Lancaster. At my usual dawdle and search speed, the walk took me 4 hours to get back to the city centre, then took me another 1.5 hours to get …
As I made my way to Birk Bank to check out the bog for dragonflies on Thursday, I was muttering to myself, this is a mistake I’m making. The plan was then to do a circuit, Ottergear Bridge-Cragg Wood-Littledale Road-Rigg Lane. But the weather was unset…
The Cuckoo is a Red Listed bird of Conservation Concern in the UK. Having heard a Cuckoo calling at Marshaw on Thursday afternoon and being 23 June, is my latest date for hearing a Cuckoo calling anywhere, and was quite unexpected. The surpri…
With with an e-mail from AC of 10 male and 2 female Keeled Skimmer at Birk Bank on Tuesday, and my finding Golden-ringed Dragonflies without much effort at three locations already, I’m fast becoming confident of a good Odonata year, in particular the G…