Lancashire Wildlife Blogs

First the bad news,currently the weather is very unsettled with plenty of rain and very cold for June.This recent bad weather brought disaster to the local nesting great crested grebes.They had constructed their nest and were incubating three eggs as p…

I am now becoming more active and I have been able to get out and about during May.It has been a dry month and at times quite warm.There has also been a northerly element to the wind and this has slowed growth and activity particularly in the North of …

On my recent travels around Longridge Fell I have come across some stonechats.These beautiful little birds can often be seen perching in prominent positions and announcing their presence with their distinctive calls.They are a lovely little bird to pho…

I think I have taken more images of Great Crested Grebes over the years than any other bird.Now that I am able to get about more I have been able to visit locations where I have previously enjoyed looking at and photographing grebes.It is that time of …

It has been four months since I last published a blog.I have been out of action following further hip surgery.I am now bionic having had two new hips since July 2018!! I am making a good recovery and am now able to drive again.This has meant that at lo…

I began the year with an account of a barn owl. I am finishing the year with another account of barn owls.The weather so far in December has been awful with rain on most days and very dull conditions.Hardly conducive to good photography but there have …

Towards the end of November the weather was settled with easterly winds and dry conditions.I discovered that a local barn owl was coming out and hunting early afternoon on a regular basis.I visited half a dozen times and was rewarded with some great op…

It had been many weeks since I had visited the Pilling area of Lancs.I made a couple of trips to the area recently to catch up on the birdlife.As expected a number of pink footed geese and whooper swans had arrived from their Icelandic breeding grounds…

I recently visited Yorkshire for my annual visit to Studley Royal Deer Park.It was dry and cool with no sun but ideal for photography.I found the deer herds in the usual part of the parkland and they were in groups of reds,sitkas and fallows.I spent a …

I hadn’t visited Leighton Moss for many months and I was keen to visit again.Autumn had arrived and thankfully the very high temperatures of the Summer were a distant memory.It promised to be a lovely day as I arrived at the Eric Morecambe hide.There w…