Sorry, but there was a missing table from yesterdays blog, please find attached. Today is the last day in Feb and Natural England have put up the annual "keep your dog on a lead" notices, which applies from 1st March to 31st July. We have been seeing a lone Long tailed Tit at the feeders […]
This dry spell has finally started to dry out the ground and it has allowed us access to the last three bird boxes to be checked out for last season. It has been very good with 8 out of 10 success, as can be seen from the attached table the number of successes has increased […]
Well it’s goodby from him. Bill Shaw paid his last visit to North Walney Reserve as Cumbria’s Natterjack Officer for ARC, he is leaving to take up an Ecology and Land Management Conservation Officer with North Yorkshire Moor National Park. The visit also included a transit around the shore from North Scale to Earnsy Bay […]
Hi, bit of deja vu today, same as last thursday the heron was in the same place at the fishing pond and had another carp in its beak. This time however the carp, about the same size again, appeared dead as the heron dropped it and picked it up easily. Bri was attempting to get […]
Poor old Heron no card, chocolates or roses, just a big fat Carp. Natural England installed a new disabled entrance gate by the Butts, but without further work by BAE to create better access across and down the old tip, it’s really redundant. The first time this gate was installed by Martin (Natural England) it […]
Posted by Ian Nasty day yesterday,snow and rain all day,found the remains of another fox under the snow,natural causes?,I don’t think so.Nice morning,although there were lots of snow pockets still around.First light watched a barn owl hunting over the old tip,probably making up for poor returns over the last two days.Very rarely hunt in bad […]
Well what a different day to yesterday, yes the sun was shining and all the snow has gone. Is spring around the corner? As we descended from the old tip and walked along by the fishing pond we thought we saw plastic in the reed at the far side of the pond. However it was […]
A very pleasant but cold morning, a couple of deer passed us twice, we have not seen any for about three weeks. The reserve is being hunted regularly by poachers using dogs and we thought the deer may have been taken. In the afternoon I came across four Long-tailed Tits, feeding on the tarmac road, […]
According to the geese, the winter must be coming to an end, skeins have been flying north for a few days now. Chaffinch have been singing each morning and today there was a Dunnock giving his all, another sign winter is on the wane. Lots of Goldfinch and Greenfinch at the feeders. Today we came […]