Weather Low cloud / fog 9/8. Visibilty 100m. intermittent drizzle. circa 15°c. Calm. Wind 0/1. vismig Meadow Pipit, 77 between 08:40 and 09:10 in small groups. Some ground in the fog. Chiffchaff, 3 in garden nocmig Pink-footed Geese, three skeins … Continued
Weather SW 3 – 4 moderate breeze, 8/8 low cloud cover occaisonal rain nocmig After a run of uneventuful nights a good selection of recordings. Very vocal Tawny Owl calling all night from within and around the garden. The first … Continued
Weather Low cloud 8/8, occaisonal break in clouds, intermittent light drizzle, light westerly, circa 14°c vismig 09:40 – 10:10 Meadow Pipt 6 south Swallow c25 feeding over Saccary Lane Goldcrest 1 nocmig Only registration was a vocal Tawny Owl between … Continued
Weather 7/8 high cirro stratus cloud. Light southerly wind c 15°c vismig Meadow Pipt 11 S Swallow c25 House Martin c5 Grey Wagtail 1 N Pied Wagtail 2 S Lapwing 40 S nocmig Very quiet night. Only a single Tawny … Continued
Saturday weather Warm and sunny, intermittent light clouds. circa 20°c, light easterly winds. RSPB Blacktoft Sands This was the first of a two day trip in the van to the east coast, to take advantage of a free weekend. Having … Continued
Following the wonderful trip to Bulgaria last week it was back to reality with a thump as I ventured up to Dean Clough for the first time in a couple of weeks. All the passage migrants had moved on as … Continued
Odonata are now in evidence at Dean Clough. 03 JuneCommon Blue damselfly -Enallagma cyathigerum 10+Four-spotted Chaser – Libellula quadrimaculatta 2 min. This is a new site record according to the Lancashire dragonfly atlas -surely a case of under-recording rather … Continued
An early morning visit to Dean Clough on the 7th turned up this 2nd calendar year Glaucous gull which was the only gull on the water. It was a bit too distant for a decent photograph but this record shot … Continued
We spent the last week of May on a family / wildlife / activity holiday in a quiet glen just south of Oban, Argyll. We enjoyed some very good weather during the middle of the week with two cloud free … Continued
Today saw the first real influx of Pink-footed Geese on the back of favourable northwesterly winds with several skeins reported from various areas of east Lancs. I was busy in the morning but had the afternoon free so decided on … Continued