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 […]
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 […]