[Dan Haywood]

in reply to: LDBWS feeding station at Fairfield #4515

4 degrees Celsius

Chaffinch 58
Brambling 1 fem
Linnet 5
Reed Bunting 4
Stock Dove 2
Song Thrush 2
Greenfinch 1

[Dan Haywood]

in reply to: LDBWS feeding station at Fairfield #4505

4 degrees Celsius

Chaffinch 40
Linnet 7
Reed Bunting 6
Stock Dove 2
Song Thrush 2
Brambling 1 fem

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[Dan Haywood]

in reply to: Freemans Pools etc #4494

I’m well jeal about the HH. Never had one at Aldcliffe in 20+ years of birding it. Was it early doors?

[Dan Haywood]

in reply to: Various #4475

Two Mediterranean Gulls this morning (1 adult and 1 3CY) Jeremy Lane fields also a Snow Bunting Cockersands sea wall by horse paddock (per Ash Baines).

Male Hen Harrier and Swallow at Foulshaw Moss also Ring-necked Parakeet Jack Scout (Garry Sharples).

A Common Sandpiper on Lune by Millennium Bridge (Jon Carter).

[Dan Haywood]

in reply to: LDBWS feeding station at Fairfield #4453

11 degrees

Chaffinch 33
Stock Dove 5
Reed Bunting 4
Linnet 2

25 Redwing, 4 Song Thrush, 2 Mistle Thrush & male Sparrowhawk in Pony Wood.

2 Red-legged Partridge in West Field (A8).

[Dan Haywood]

in reply to: Sunderland Point #4450

Impressive counts Alan. 3500 Lapwings on the low tide mud (SD457596) at Aldcliffe this afternoon– no doubt at least some of the birds you had.

Green Sandpiper 1 at Stodday Sewage Works (ASC3) also here Shelduck 9 (and a heard-only Rock / Water Pipit).

[Dan Haywood]

in reply to: Leighton #4444

Two Great White Egrets E into the plantation at Pilling Lane Ends this afternoon as well. (Paul Ellis).

I daresay eight is a district record, for winter at least?

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[Dan Haywood]

in reply to: FAUNA this morning #4308

Hi Alasdair– I came down to distribute society seed at the LDBWS feeding station (A10) later in the morning:

Chaffinch 19 (mostly using tables- thanks Alan)
Stock Dove 7 (two in lower mown area, five in upper mown area)
Skylark 3 (in upper mown area. Plan worked– thanks Eddy)
Reed Bunting 2 (4 degrees celsius, frost)

Saw your Linnet flock, also the your pinks and Curlews in A7!

2 Red-legged Partridge in Fairfield NR’s ‘West Field’ (A8).

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[Dan Haywood]

in reply to: Aldcliffe highlights #4297

Rosie– these geese were in ‘A6’ (for our functional linkage records).

[Dan Haywood]

in reply to: Urban Tawny Owl #4294

Barn Owl hunting field SD472591 (near canal at Lunecliffe) at dusk.

[Dan Haywood]

in reply to: Fairfield etc. #4186

Pony Wood and arable field (A10 S) this afternoon:

Linnet: 18
Long-tailed Tit: 10
Redwing: 6 then N
Chaffinch: 5
Pheasant: 4
Song Thrush: 2
Brambling: 1
Coal Tit: 1
Kestrel: 1

[Dan Haywood]

in reply to: Fairfield etc. #4167

Linnet: 83 here today in A10 S also 8 Meadow Pipit.

[Dan Haywood]

in reply to: Fairfield etc. #4166

We’ve started scattering food on the ground Jim. This is where the majority of supplementary seed goes to benefit ground feeding species.

Tables will be coming out of storage soon.

[Dan Haywood]

in reply to: Ibis #4156

The bird has relocated to the original spot by Pilling Lane Ends (1235). First district record since 2018 I think.

[Dan Haywood]

in reply to: Eric Morecambe Hide #4154

Spotted Redshank 5
Greenshank 6
Wigeon 155

[Dan Haywood]

in reply to: Where have all the sparrows gone? #4065

It’s a similar situation where I live in Lancaster Dom– only see House Sparrows using the feeder in our front yard during the breeding season– so we get one two two pairs (and sometimes their offspring) April to July.

They must then disperse to join local feeding flocks elsewhere (including farmland) until they return to their traditional nest sites in our immediate vicinity.

[Dan Haywood]

in reply to: Geese #4046

Pink-footed Goose:

560 South + 40 West over Lune estuary area between 1500 and 1745. Nine parties in total.

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[Dan Haywood]

in reply to: Aldcliffe Marsh #3970

15 Wigeon and five Little Grebes Freeman’s Pools (A2)

Up to three Green Sandpipers on wildfowlers Pools N (A4N)

97 Teal on Wildfowlers Pools S (A4S) unfazed by a female Kestrel which caught a vole.

290 Canada Goose, 84 Greylags, 21 Lapwing and a Black Swan (A5).

Field ASC13 west (between Conder Green / Ashton) looking very good for attracting a passing D*tterel at the moment. Today 115 Lapwing, nine alba wags and two Mediterranean Gulls.

A whopping 21 Greenshank roosting on the S. bank of Conder Pool at high tide (9.73m), where a trickle of tidal water entered via the sluice for at least twenty minutes.

[Dan Haywood]

in reply to: Aldcliffe Marsh #3968

That’s field A5 Rosie!

[Dan Haywood]

in reply to: Ashton Mediterraneans #3850

A ring-reading fail I’m afraid– mainly because the field was furrowed so when on the deck legs and often bodies were hidden. There was a ringed 2CY as well.

[Dan Haywood]

in reply to: Ashton Mediterraneans #3842

One of LDBWS functionally-linked land maps attached.

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[Dan Haywood]

in reply to: Eric Morecambe Complex #3722

Thanks Philip Grounds:

This evening on the EM pools
@RSPBLeightonM
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2 ringed avocet (Yfl 7B, one unread), 7 little ringed plover, 1 common sandpiper, 1 little stint, 130 black-tailed godwit, 225 redshank, 25 dunlin, 1 spoonbill, 2 greenshank, 5 snipe and 1 peregrine over
@LDBWSnews

[Dan Haywood]

in reply to: Conder Pool #3696

Greylags SFJ & SHJ at Aldcliffe, Pete.

[Dan Haywood]

in reply to: Conder & Glasson #3685

A Kingfisher and a Yellow Wagtail (juv) on Conder Pool yesterday evening 25 July.

Also there 12 Pied Wagtails (all juveniles) and 14 adult Common Terns. A Green Sandpiper in the creek at cSD456559.

Between Conder Green and Ashton 350 Greylags and an adult Mediterranean Gull in the stubble in ASC13.

Whimbrel feeding in the seaweed at Ashton at SD455571. Always been a good spot to watch this species from the mixed use path.

[Dan Haywood]

in reply to: Eric Morecambe Complex & Silverdale Moss #3684

Little Stint EM Complex at 6AM as per Steve Dodgson.

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