It’s now even more difficult to access the still rising number of grebe on Conder Pool, with channels to go down, and islands to get behind now the pool has flooded again, but after the customary multi-attempts, at least 18 Little G…
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Out For A Duck!….
….and one or two other birds.There was no more than 40 Teal at Conder Green yesterday, but despite sifting through every last one of ’em, I failed to see the juvenile male Garganey….another first for the green, been here since 28 September.Con…
A Little Healthier, A Little Longer.
A bit more action on Thursday resulted in a healthier looking list than Mondays shortie, and I was at Glasson Dock 3 hours before to see the rising tide moving birds around. There was something of a spectacle with at least 620 Greylag on the …
The Short List.
If your name is on the short list in a competition it’s good news, you’ll be in with a chance, and could be a winner. But this short list was the result of a couple of hours birding yesterday, and certainly wasn’t a winner, despite a bit of effort resu…
Estuary Notes Weds 25 Oct.
When I met Andrew and Michael at Conder Green, there was a couple of surprises in store for us all. Just when we thought we’d seen the last of the hirundines for 2019 save the odd straggler, the skies over the picnic area seen from Conder Poo…
….And More On The Hawker.
You would have been forgiven for using the word ‘dead’ to describe the scene on Conder Pool when you stepped onto the viewing platform yesterday, but 18 Little Grebe and a Greenshank there made it alive….just!In the creeks, a Common Sandpiper ma…
The Hawker Mile.
I walked the canal towpath yesterday, a little in excess of a mile, from the basin at Glasson Dock to The Mill at Conder Green, and recorded at least 54 Migrant Hawker, including six coupled pairs, recorded as ‘at least’ because I probably missed more …
LRP Needs To Read The Script!
Two visits to Conder Pool yesterday – nothing new there then – the first three hours before high tide, the second at high tide when 11 Greenshank had taken to the pool to roost over the tide. Despite multi attempts at counting, I found only 8 Little Gr…
More Red Nab Therapy.
I got to Heysham nearly four hours before high tide on Friday, to do a quick check of the gull roost on Red Nab before setting off to walk along the sea wall to the harbour. There was few gains in that exercise, though it was good to see an adult …
After The Twitch.
Avocet Conder Green Ian Pinkerton Clik the pikReturning from the Fluke Hall on Tuesday, I called in on the Lune Estuary at Glasson Dock to find 2 Avocet at the Conder mouth, they were seen as an adult pair, and at one point were hoovering up accompanie…