Anything that has been spotted on the nature reserve
It’s been a fairly quiet week, Lew and Jim spotted 20 plus Long Tail tits around the feeders and put up a lot of snipe in the wet area along the airfield fence. The Bullfinch are building up at the feeders with 2 male and 2 female showing up quite regularly. Ian spotted a Barn […]
The Gardeners World program on BBC2 last night was interesting but on the short side, after travelling and spending all day on site, they could have shown more. We had a good morning, including being caught in a hail downpour. On the way to the first feeder a Woodcock flew off the path just a […]
It has been very quiet over the past week even the number of ducks on the long pond has reduced to just a few mallard, normally there would be a good mix at this time of year. Managed to take a shot of a Curlew flying over, they move with the tides travelling from east […]
Hi, as Bri has said with all the rain everything is more than soggy and in places the paths are very flooded. Bri and I were talking just recently remarking that the two cygnets seem to have survived. A few weeks ago the famly left the long pond returning now and again. Alas this morning […]
The rain yesterday has just topped up everywhere, it was just starting to dry out, now all the side paths are flooded again, wellies recommended. The swans are still here but not seen on the long pond, today they landed in the channel at the north end of the island. Brian must have been up […]
A flock of about 70/80 Fieldfare and Redwings flew over while we were sat on the bench, and they landed in the trees adjacent the first field, when we reached the field they flew off north up the channel. A couple of years ago when we had the really cold spell the fields were often […]
Another overcast day but quite a few interesting sightings, the female Stonechat was on the same tree, along the Airfield fence, as the other day, also in the afternoon there was a male Stonechat on top of a small bush in the middle of the heather moor, this maybe additional to the male the other […]
Posted by Ian Exiting day today,Airfield Manager calls,then arrives,Haverig Rescue call (must still have my no)Walney coastguards turn up,and the large yellow buoy dodging about off the west side of the Island still attracts attention!!.Seems this time it’s a yellow quad bike stuck on the sands (if only). NB. Steve has put a new lock […]
The woodpecker was still around yesterday afternoon and the nuts were empty at the second feeder, put two and two and get five, but it’s probably the culprit. At the first feeders there were two Coal tits on the seed but only feeding one at a time, they don’t get on. They only like the […]
Quite a morning, walking by the airport fence Bri & I saw at least 16 long tailed tits. On the same tree there was also a male and a female stonechat. We have not seen many this year, let’s hope they will recover from their recent demise in numbers. At the feeders we saw a […]