Copyright Howard Stockdale Clik the pikHoward kindly sent me the collage he created of the Knot roosting over various March/ February tides at Heysham Heliport, when he achieved not just excellent photographs, but also reading an amazing 28 r…
All this week I’ve watched the International Space Station pass over from our bedroom window, in awe at what I was seeing in the evening skies. Thursday was my last view of the amazing ISS, appearing at 8.47pm from WSW, and in view for 5min before…
Martin Jump was in touch with some interesting behavior and two record shots to accompany his observations. For a larger presentation, please clik the piks.Based on observations, the Raven made no movement after landing on the marsh, bringing Mar…
KT and myself decided on a walk in the park to have the days permitted exercise as an escape from isolation during these Covid-19 days. An excellent therapy, rewarded by finding the Little Grebe pair breeding on the old reservo…
With birding off the cards now, the March passage of Stonechat is almost certainly over, but there has been an excellent and unprecedented passage through Lancashire this year. I have noted up to 160 Stonechat in records collec…
Just done a countrywide internet trawl to find up to 20 birders still reporting on a website, at up to the same number of locations not including garden birds. Words fail me, but – unusual for me – to keep it polite….Shameful.Thank goodness the weath…
Whilst the moors are fresh in my mind following a visit to Bowland last Friday. I learn of the fire brigade being called out yesterday to a moorland fire at Deer Hill Reservoir in West Yorkshire. Photo West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Se…
Friday was a good sunny day, though a cold wind in exposed places on the fells took the edge off an otherwise perfect late March day. I gave six hours between Harrisend and Hawthornthwaite west and east.Harrisend Fell Looking East To Clougha….
I have news of 6 Sand Martin and 2 Swallow at Claughton-on-Brock fishing lake at 8.30am this morning, also the first report of a Wheatear on the Fylde coast.A bit repetitive but couldn’t resist, I got a better short video of the Golden Plovers yes…
The spring passage of in excess of 100 Stonechats appears to be going through the roof. I’ve noted records of 50 Stonechat on the FBC website in 2 weeks to date, almost certainly all passage birds with no duplication. AC was in touch to tell me hi…