Category: Sightings

A beautiful sunny morning with a light mist at ground level. From the first field I could see three roe deer grazing on the salt marsh near to the reed beds close to the airfield. Unable to identify sexes due to looking into the bright sun and the light mist. They were about 500 yards […]

Another wet week, see Steve’s seat almost surrounded by water. We are getting quite a lot of birds on the feeders, it’s worth a visit at any time of the day, one shot of a Coal Tit. The high tides and easterly wind brought the ducks and waders close into the shore, see photo. The […]

First of all thanks to Ian and Chris for pointing out the deliberate mistake on the Monday posting, two photos were incorrectly titled, now attached corrected. Came across a Silver Y moth on Tuesday, quite late in the year for these, it’s name comes from the Y on the wing. We disturbed a Kestrel in […]

Clear sunny days for a change ! We saw a roe buck grazing on the south end of salt marsh near to reed beds by airfield and to the north of the salt marsh a little egret was busy in a gully. 270 pink footed geese were flying south with their all too familiar cronking […]

When we were talking to the rep carrying out the bird survey for the airfield, last week he said he had seen a few Siskin mixed in a flock of Goldfinches. Today on the feeders in amongst the Goldfinches were a few Siskin and they are as tetchy as the Goldfinch. Photos are a bit […]

Supposed to be a dry day but guess what, it rained all the way round and I was not the only one feeling miserable, the Kestrel doesn’t look too happy either. Also managed a shot of a Little Grebe, normally these birds dive as soon as they are spotted. Much better in the afternoon, came […]

The rain still falling, will it ever stop, not seen the ponds so full for years and most of the paths are flooded, boots are no use, it just goes through the hole in the top. The swans have finally gone, Ian saw them heading in the direction of Sandscale Haws. Even with all this […]

Following on from Bob’s post yesterday, attached photos of Goldfinches feeding. When we arrived at the seat a Kestrel had kindly left a pellet, there have been about a half dozen recently but we have only spotted it once sat on the top of the seat. The wreck at the north end is very clear […]

A breezy sunny morning, with a heron on the long pond and an adult swan leaving and flying to the fishing pond probably trying to encourage the two cygnets to take a longer flight and view their surroundings. Bri started to fill the feeders for the first time for the autumn/ winter season and we […]

Well it’s has been an interesting week weather wise, wellies all round, a couple of photos show the extent of flooding, the bench and table sitting in 3 inches of water, dogs looking miserable and the area excavated for the Natterjacks, totally under water. The cygnets have been seen by Dereck, flying for the first […]