Month: August 2012

Posted by Ian Pouring all day.No sign of our cuckoo am,but this afternoon walking back in the rain there it was with two magpies perched on top of gate 3.No camera,sure it smiled at me!

Just an update on Ian’s Cuckoo, I did sight it on the path yesterday but it’s very shy, won’t stop for a photo shoot, only shots are of it’s bum, as can be seen by the pics. It flies very low to the ground and seems to only settle on the ground, never on a […]

Posted by Ian Our young cuckoo was on the path besides the long pond again this morning.It has been in the same place for over a week now and is obviously attracted to something there,Brian wondered if it was feeding on the tiny frogs and toads that we see regularly.Walking back there was a roe […]

Posted by Ian August 15th—can’t believe we are suddenly in the late stages of summer already.Inspite of the very mixed bag of weather we have had the reserve has been full of interest this year,my own prize would go to the cuckoos that were around for some time and rewarded us with some fascinating sightings,which […]

15th August 2012 Angelica is another good plant for attracting insects. These photos are from last year and I have to confess the second one was not taken on Walney. Has anyone seen any small coppers this year? I still haven’t seen a single one! Plenty of graylings about now. I saw them along the […]

A really hot afternoon and too warm for the dogs, so I just had look around the tip area, Ian had said he had found a couple of Teasel in flower on the tip. What first struck me was the humming, an area of Knapweed was covered in all types of bees and wasps it […]

The glorious 12th, if your not a grouse. Ian told myself and Terry this morning he had seen a young Cuckoo in the same place on the main path, two mornings on the run. We walked up the path and sure enough it was where Ian had described, but it saw us first and moved […]

We had a fairly good walk this morning, nothing much to report except we got "cleged". Attached is a marked up Google map showing the positions and approximate number of Yellow Bartsia, a copy has also been put in the photo section "flowers". This pm managed to sight a couple of Brown Hawkers and one […]

The morning was very still and humid, lots of midges and clegs, we had a look at pond 35, all the cows and calves were lying down, just having a cud chewing time, except for one large calf decided it would have a drink of milk. No sign of natterjacks at the pond but did […]

Well so much for bragging of not getting wet on Saturday, yesterday we were caught in a thunder storm, rain and hail, with no waterproofs, a complete change of clothing required. Today has produced lots of new Common Blue damselflies, a few Common Blue butterflies and on the west side of the sandunes quite a […]