The weather recently has been awful with many wet and gloomy days.Not conducive at all to getting out with the camera.There were some drier and brighter spells and I made a few trips to my current hunting ground around Cockerham and Pilling.This …
As promised in my last post I am now showing images of the pink footed geese that are in the Pilling area and are feeding on the many potatoes left unharvested in the flooded fields.It was not easy to find the geese but I did eventually find reas…
At this time of the year I look forward to the arrival of whooper swans and pink footed geese from their breeding grounds in Iceland.As last year the heavy autumnal rains had flooded many of the agricultural fields in the Pilling area.The lakes t…
Last week despite the very wet and stormy weather I did manage to get out with the camera.My main objective were the whooper swans and pinkfoot geese that had arrived to spend the winter months in Lancashire.My favourite area to see them is in the Pill…
Lancashire is currently in the highest zone of coronavirus restrictions.This will mean it is going to be difficult to obtain images as non essential travel is not encouraged and it may not be easy to provide new images for the blog.For the time b…
Now I am able to blog again I am bringing the blog up to date with some recent sightings.A trip to Lunesdale saw a small group of recently arrived whooper swans resting in the fields adjoining the confluence of the rivers Lune and Wenning at Horn…
Think I have sorted things hopefully.This is just a test blog with a few recent images from my visits to the wader roost at Southport.I will be back in business soon with more of Lancashire’s wildlife.Thanks for looking in and stay safe and well.
I am leaving Blogger as of from today.I am currently having great difficulty in uploading images to my site.In future I will be putting my images onto my FLICKR site atwww.flickr.com/photos/brianrafferty Hope this works and hope you …
I haven’t posted for a while as gardening duties have kept me very busy during the recent fine weather.I did however find time to visit the coast near Southport to see if any more waders had arrived.More waders had arrived and it was lovely to see the …
I haven’t been out much recently with the camera owing to mainly bad weather.July was a very wet month and August is proving to be very stormy with two named storms recently battering the Lancashire coastline.August is a month I look forward to as the …