….I took three photographs of butterflies just about reaching my standard, including the well marked female Large White in our garden in the header pik.But the weather on Friday wasn’t quite as good as I had hoped for, and the hunt for drag…
An excellent day, when I had the company of Ian in the Birk Bank area on Tuesday, hitting the bullseye with three out of the four targets I had hoped for. A bit of an irony for me, as the one target missed was the Stonechat, but that was…
I’m getting closer by the day to the thin end of the wedge with this lockdown thing. But not wanting to labour that one, onward christian soldiers an’all that….Imm Female Common Darter. Pete Woodruff. Clik the pikLancaster Cemetery on the city o…
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…