I note the Purple Heron is still at Eagland Hill this Sunday morning, though to be honest I was fearing the worst for this bird. Having seen some literature indicating some unrest about it’s presence there by the natives, and the ‘twitchers’ becoming a…
I was rewarded by excellent views of the wintering male Stonechat at Cockersand yesterday, it was on the marsh edge opposite the CP, first time since 8 January. Other interest here was 8 Bewick’s Swan with 180 Whooper Swan in fields off Slack Lane…
With little birding of late for me, comes little blogging, and with little blogging eventually comes a hole in which Birds2blog finds itself in. But n’er mind….here’s a little tale to entertain and help dig it out of the hole. It’…
The Brent Geese made a return to Heysham on 7 January when the first sighting was of 17 seen off Knowleys Road, they were feeding in an area they have returned to for a third winter. By Monday the number had risen to 26 Brent Geese at Heysham…
A text to AC on Friday morning to ask if there was any news on an Iceland Gull seen on Thursday at Knott End was negative, but resulted in a good day for both of us when he suggested I met him at Eagland Hill. VIEW FULL FRAMEThe weather …
….all my troubles seemed so far away. Not sure about that, but I got some birding in and noted the notables around the Lune Estuary.I’ve been seeing good numbers of Goosander recently, and found 12 on the River Lune at Glasson Dock on 18 Novembe…
The new header is appropriate enough to remind us that the summer days are on their way. It didn’t take long to check out Conder Green, still a little on the quiet side, until the geese went over later, 15 Curlew were on Conder Pool until a Grey&n…
Conder Pool has been pretty hard work on recent visits, not helped by the departure of the Little Grebe, they have generally left Conder Pool by early December, though an exceptional count for the date at Conder Green was of 15 on 3 December,…
I had a conversation on the telephone with Martin Jump yesterday, very informative and much appreciated. Later in the day, two e-mails collided in my inbox, when some images sent by Martin, and some more sent by Howard Stockdale, arrived virtually at t…
I can’t get out birding at the moment – I’m not up to it – and I can’t think of a better way to fill the gap than this to spread the word. Seeing is believing….I used this expression in my post about seeing in excess of 1,000 Fieldfare and…