A surprise at the snow on the Lakes mountains yesterday, quite a fall and not just a dusting….Was this really 5 May. But a bigger and better surprise was in store for me 4 hours after I took the header photograph. As I came off th…
Stonechat Harrisend. Pete Woodruff.I found 7 Stonechat on Harrisend, on what turned out to be a bit of a fellside fest. The chats were seen as two pair and three male, I reckon possibly five breeding pairs on Harrisend now, but I’ll be b…
My kind of birding in Bowland with some good results, and I had the good company of Martin Jump for my second visit in six days.Mistle Thrush Fledgling. View Full Screen.Over my two visits 23/28 April, I’ve notched up 23 true thrushes, being …
There can’t have been anything more I wanted to do, than to get myself off to Bowland on Friday morning to spend a pleasant 5 hour wander from Marshaw-Tower Lodge-Trough Bridge-Winfold Fell.I saw Swallow and House Martin around Marshaw Farm. As the sum…
A pleasant spring day for upland birding, with one or two good rewards and three decent butterfly records.Not the most attractive of woodlands at the start of the path to Clougha, but by the time I got here 20 minutes from the car park on Rigg Lan…
Looking over a stretch of the River Lune at Bull Beck on Thursday, a few minutes after I had found a Little Ringed Plover on a shingle bar, distant in the sky, there’s this large lumbering bird flying upstream, then dropping down out of view….
Searching through my records of April Stonechats since 2006. I found little has changed over 15 years, although 10 Stonechat on Hawthornthwaite 10 April 2006, 9 on Harrisend 5 April 2007, and 8 on Clougha/Birk Bank 21…
Although it was a pleasant sunny day, to be honest Conder Pool was a bit dull when I arrived there, but things were about to change for the better….much better. Unknown to me I was about to experience another of those excellent birding moments t…
A pair of Siskin visited our garden Wednesday this week, the male a brilliant individual, briefly on the feeders before flying off together. I was jumping for joy at the sight of these two birds and was tempted to call them rare for our garden, but loo…
Some notes of interest at/around Portland Bill Obs during March, indicating that the spring migration has yet to take off.1 March. A tiny trickle of Meadow Pipit.3 March. Single Chiffchaff.4 March. 3 Wheatear.8 March. A very interesting note on t…