Weatherwise the day started well on Thursday, but by midday it turned cloudy eventually becoming drizzle for a spell in the afternoon with a cold wind, not the day I had hoped for.But the inclement weather didn’t succeed in putting the damper on my vis…
On a lovely wall to wall sunny day on Thursday, there was nothing more I wanted to do, than to get to do a 3 mile circuit Rigg Lane-Birk Bank-Cragg Wood-Littledale Road-Rigg Lane. There was half a chance of me finding the last Common Darter around the …
Perfect weather for some time on Harrisend to find 6 Stonechat, it being early October looking like they’re set to winter there, with relations already having left for the coast or maybe further afield to southern Europe or the northern …
I was on the western side of Hawthornthwaite Fell during the week, and got to around 400m before finding the first of 4 Stonechat seen on the visit. It was a female, and was the highest Stonechat I ever found on this fell, before soon disappearing from…
I now have a header to fit the page again on B2B. The image is appropriately of a Golden-ringed Dragonfly, of which I found twelve in three weeks all in Bowland….Thanks to Richard Pegler for his image and the suggestion to rectify the heade…
For the past five years I’ve found Ring Ouzel on Hawthorthwaite, this year I’m hoping to make it six. I was in the area yesterday, which was two days earlier than last year, when I found a singing male Ring Ouzel 14 May, the same day I h…
….and another pik in the amateur bracket by yours truly.Stonechat Birk Bank 5 May. Pete Woodruff.Following on from the seven chats on Harrisend 30 April, I found another 7 Stonechat on my latest visit to Birk Bank, they were seen as th…
A pleasant spring day for upland birding, with one or two good rewards and three decent butterfly records.Not the most attractive of woodlands at the start of the path to Clougha, but by the time I got here 20 minutes from the car park on Rigg Lan…
Looking over a stretch of the River Lune at Bull Beck on Thursday, a few minutes after I had found a Little Ringed Plover on a shingle bar, distant in the sky, there’s this large lumbering bird flying upstream, then dropping down out of view….
Searching through my records of April Stonechats since 2006. I found little has changed over 15 years, although 10 Stonechat on Hawthornthwaite 10 April 2006, 9 on Harrisend 5 April 2007, and 8 on Clougha/Birk Bank 21…