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in reply to: Aldcliffe and Conder Green #3782
10th August – Morning
Aldcliffe WP:
Three Green Sandpipers
Two Common Sandpipers
Three Little Ringed PloversConder River at Conder Green:
One Green Sandpiper
Two Common Sandpipersin reply to: Leighton Moss & House Martins #3740Hi 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.in reply to: Conder & Glasson #3608One 2CY Mediterranean Gull on the Lune near Ashton Hall
in reply to: Various incl Scaup #3568The Scaup was on EM this afternoon (1/7)
in reply to: Leighton Moss #3285Osprey 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.
in reply to: Aldcliffe etc #3095A Ringed Plover on Wildfowlers’ at 09.00
in reply to: Sunderland Point Lades Marsh WeBS Count #3038A 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.
in reply to: Aldcliffe late afternoon / early evening #2903Or a dog owner unleashed their dogs to have a “play in the water” as seen on Frog Pond this morning.
in reply to: Conder and Glasson #2898At least ten Eider on the Lune opposite Conder Green.
in reply to: Aldcliffe Marsh #2781Female 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
in reply to: Aldcliffe / Stodday #2769…and here is a photo of the pipit that Dan refers to.
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in reply to: Aldcliffe Marsh #2726Monday morning:
09.30 Five Swallows and seven Sand Martins at Wildfowlers’ Pools
A pair of Goosander on Wildfowlers’ Pool (North)
in reply to: Meadow pipits #2596Good movement also noticed this morning along the Lune between Aldcliffe and Conder Green.
in reply to: Colour-ringed Black-tailed Godwit #2580The tide was still rising Pete so some probably arrived after your count!
in reply to: Colour-ringed Black-tailed Godwit #257511.00: Approximately 1130 BTG in the two fields here.
08.45: Approximately 760 BTG here.….and a first summer Goldeneye with a female
in reply to: Aldcliffe / Fairfield this morning #2524I can think of several reasons why an OS grid reference is more preferable than What3Words.
in reply to: Aldcliffe / Fairfield #2443Seven Stonechats (four males) at SD459599 at 11.30 this morning (25th)
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.
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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 Englandin reply to: Chiffchaff #2280Hi 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.
in reply to: Aldcliffe / Freeman’s / Fairfield various #2235Eleven Goldeneye including five displaying males on Freeman’s Pool at 13.00
Two Goldeneye including one male on Wildfowlers’ Pools
Three fem Goldeneye on the flood at the bottom of Aldcliffe Hall Lane25 Linnet at the maize field
Approx 25 Fieldfare heading south
Chiffchaff in my garden again
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