[Barrie Cooper]

in reply to: Conder & Glasson #3824

Ian – we were probably looking at the same three Avocets (I was at Conder Green picnic site). They were an adult with two juvs, one of which had a yellow ring/flag but it was too far away to read.

Thirty two Little Egrets feeding in the same “tidal pool” on the Lune at Stodday at 10.00.

[Barrie Cooper]

in reply to: Aldcliffe and Conder Green #3782

10th August – Morning

Aldcliffe WP:
Three Green Sandpipers
Two Common Sandpipers
Three Little Ringed Plovers

Conder River at Conder Green:
One Green Sandpiper
Two Common Sandpipers

[Barrie Cooper]

in reply to: Leighton Moss & House Martins #3740

Hi John,
On the estate where I live, my maximum number of nests last year was 34. This year it is 12. My first HM sighting was three weeks later than last year as well.

[Barrie Cooper]

in reply to: Conder & Glasson #3608

One 2CY Mediterranean Gull on the Lune near Ashton Hall

[Barrie Cooper]

in reply to: Various incl Scaup #3568

The Scaup was on EM this afternoon (1/7)

[Barrie Cooper]

in reply to: Leighton Moss #3285

Osprey showed well between 5.30 and 6.30pm. Caught a fish and took it to Grisedale Wood to eat it. Returned, but was harassed by a Black-headed Gull and flew off towards Morecambe Bay.

Grasshopper Warbler reeling at lunchtime after heavy rain.

[Barrie Cooper]

in reply to: Aldcliffe etc #3095

A Ringed Plover on Wildfowlers’ at 09.00

[Barrie Cooper]

in reply to: Sunderland Point Lades Marsh WeBS Count #3038

A Starling imitating singing Common Rosefinch on a visit to Belarus once had me excited. As it was April I realised it was probably too early for a Rosefinch before finding the Starling on the other side of a farm building – a bit of an anticlimax.

[Barrie Cooper]

in reply to: Aldcliffe late afternoon / early evening #2903

Or a dog owner unleashed their dogs to have a “play in the water” as seen on Frog Pond this morning.

[Barrie Cooper]

in reply to: Conder and Glasson #2898

At least ten Eider on the Lune opposite Conder Green.

[Barrie Cooper]

in reply to: Aldcliffe Marsh #2781

Female Blackcap at the Wildfowlers’ Pools this morning. A male Blackcap singing at the bottom of Aldcliffe Hall Lane.

At least eighty Sand Martins at Wildfowlers at 09.30

[Barrie Cooper]

in reply to: Aldcliffe / Stodday #2769

…and here is a photo of the pipit that Dan refers to.

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[Barrie Cooper]

in reply to: Aldcliffe Marsh #2726

Monday morning:

09.30 Five Swallows and seven Sand Martins at Wildfowlers’ Pools

A pair of Goosander on Wildfowlers’ Pool (North)

[Barrie Cooper]

in reply to: Aldcliffe #2714

27/3 As above (LRP, Green Sand, etc but no Grey Plover) and four Sand Martins through at 10.40.

[Barrie Cooper]

in reply to: Aldcliffe #2683

11.15 An Avocet showing well on Aldcliffe Marsh at SD458602

09.30: Three Sand Martins briefly over the flooded field at the bottom of Aldcliffe Hall Lane.

Still a few hundred Pinkfeet at the southern end of Colloway Marsh.

[Barrie Cooper]

in reply to: Stodday #2624

Cheers Ben

[Barrie Cooper]

in reply to: Stodday #2616

Sorry to be a misery guts, but as this website is open to anyone, perhaps it’s best to keep information on this persecuted species like this off here.

[Barrie Cooper]

in reply to: Meadow pipits #2596

Good movement also noticed this morning along the Lune between Aldcliffe and Conder Green.

[Barrie Cooper]

in reply to: Colour-ringed Black-tailed Godwit #2580

The tide was still rising Pete so some probably arrived after your count!

[Barrie Cooper]

in reply to: Colour-ringed Black-tailed Godwit #2575

11.00: Approximately 1130 BTG in the two fields here.
08.45: Approximately 760 BTG here.

….and a first summer Goldeneye with a female

[Barrie Cooper]

in reply to: Various #2564

Chiffchaff singing in the hedge next to the flooded cycle path on 11/3.

[Barrie Cooper]

in reply to: Aldcliffe / Fairfield this morning #2524

I can think of several reasons why an OS grid reference is more preferable than What3Words.

[Barrie Cooper]

in reply to: Aldcliffe / Fairfield #2443

Seven Stonechats (four males) at SD459599 at 11.30 this morning (25th)

[Barrie Cooper]

in reply to: Aldcliffe #2368

Information on the colour-ringed Black-tailed Godwit I saw this morning. I recorded it on 28/3/20 as well. Seems to like Norfolk in the Autumn and sunny Lancashire in the spring before it heads back to Iceland.
O-GW//W
01.09.19 Snettisham, the Wash estuary, Norfolk, E England
01.03.20 Snettisham, the Wash estuary, Norfolk, E England
06.03.20 Snettisham, the Wash estuary, Norfolk, E England
28.03.20 Aldcliffe, Lune estuary, Lancashire, NW England
01.09.20 Titchwell, Norfolk, E England
24.09.20 Titchwell, Norfolk, E England
01.12.20 Cockerham Sands, Lune estuary, Lancashire, NW England
24.12.20 Newton Marsh, Preston, Lancashire, NW England
15.02.21 Aldcliffe, Lune estuary, Lancashire, NW England

[Barrie Cooper]

in reply to: Chiffchaff #2280

Hi Brom, you’re right the feet certainly look pale on the photo. The Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds states that leg colour only distinguishes 75% of Common Chiffchaff from Willow Warbler. It goes onto say that both collybita and abietinus subspecies of Chiffchaff occasionally have “paler legs, brown rather than blackish, in practice very like Willow Warbler and inviting confusion”. This bird was displaying typical tail-dipping and call of Common Chiffchaff and was in the garden again today but I didn’t have my camera available and am reluctant to disturb it.

It would be interesting to know where it was last summer, the BBC’s Winterwatch recently said that wintering ones here may come from Scandinavia. If anyone has a theory if this individual could be abietinus then it would be interesting to hear.

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