I was grateful to David for sending me the Bar-tailed Godwit image as my new header. David is a visitor to the area and wouldn’t have realised at the time, the significance of the Bar-tailed Godwit at Conder Green, seen as an unprecedented number …
I was grateful to David for sending me the Bar-tailed Godwit image as my new header. David is a visitor to the area and wouldn’t have realised at the time, the significance of the Bar-tailed Godwit at Conder Green, seen as an unprecedented number …
Keeled Skimmer populations are found in North Wales and Cumbria, so it is a little surprising that the species wasn’t recorded earlier than it was in Lancashire, being a county well-endowed with suitable habitat for the Keeled Skimmer which is a s…
The trek up Langden Brook during the week, didn’t have the result I was hoping for, if only for the fact I only got to the half way point when I should have then gone on to the upper track via Holdren Castle, but had to do a ‘U’ turn to return via the …
Bee Orchid 22 June. Pete Woodruff. ‘Clik the piks’It was third time lucky when KT and myself visited the site on the outskirts of Lancaster again, where we found three spikes of Bee Orchid, not that all that easy to find in the long grass on the bank. …
Common Tern Chicks Conder Pool Pontoon 16 June. Howard Stockdale.Some excellent updated news from Conder Pool. The Common Tern have three chicks on the pontoon, all ringed and one being a runt which is becoming a tradition with the Conder Terns….Cond…
Keeled Skimmer/Large Red Damselfly Pete Woodruff Clik The PikIt was excellent that I found a pair of Keeled Skimmer on the bog at Birk Bank yesterday, with the/a female ovipositing. I was also pleased to see a pair of Large Red Damselflies coupled…
Around and about, and goings on in the garden….The photographs will look even better if you clik the piks.Conder Pool.The Sheep Problem Conder Pool 2019. Pete WoodruffIt wasn’t good news to hear a pair of Common Tern have suffered a nest fa…
There’s a stranglehold on my birding caused by these Covid days, so I made another delve into the archives and found the second of my notes, this one published in the January 2005 issue of British Birds. By coincidence, on the same page in the sam…
Had a pleasant leisurely four hours on the Harden Fell track on Monday to note 21 species including, on the way to Hareden Farm, 4 Blackcap were singing males, 2 Spotted Flycatchers, Chiffchaff, and 2 Grey Wagtail on the brook, a Treecreeper seen …