[jeffbutcher]

in reply to: Geese #4042

3 a.m. sounds of large numbers of geese flying over Bare.

Jef B

[jeffbutcher]

in reply to: Pectoral sandpiper #4002

We were in the Morecambe hide about 10 a.m. today. One of the photographers saw something land on the mud where lapwing were standing and asked if it was a dunlin, but then quickly found it and said ruff. When I found it and was trying to get a photo, I suddenly realised how small it was against the lapwing and greenshank. While I was puzzling on this, the photographer had got a good shot and realised it was a pectoral sandpiper. I don’t think any of us knew one had been seen the day before. There was a disturbance and everything moved but the pec remained with the lapwings. About 10.20 the pec suddenly took off and flew directly towards Griesdale hide.

Also seen: 8 greenshank (1 leucistic), 1 great white egret on flood, 1 kestrel (juv) 4+ wheatears, 1 stonechat, 2 black-tailed godwit, 2 spotted redshank.
Has anyone managed a count of Cetti’s warblers between the car park and Allen hide?

Jeff B

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in reply to: Eric Morecambe Complex #3805

Thursday 12th morning

5 spoonbills
2 little egret
2 grey heron
1 cormorant
1 spotted redshank with large group of common redshank
2 ruff
10 dunlin
1 oystercatcher
numerous lapwing
uncounted avocet
arrival (?) of c450 black-tailed godwit
1 peregrine
various teal, mallard, gadwall, greylag geese.
2 pied wagtail
2 sand martin, 2 house martin
2 chiffchaff, 1 greenfinch,

Jeff B

[jeffbutcher]

in reply to: Small Emerald #3632

Thanks for correction Steve. That’s what’s so useful about this site. I couldn’t sort it out between the two in my book, especially as it says both fade to white.

JeffB

[jeffbutcher]

in reply to: Freehold jackdaws #3628

we had 56 jackdaws over the Tarnbrook Wyre path from Stoops Bridge this morning. First group of 17 flying steadily north-east high up, followed minutes later by 39 more, although about 19 of this bunch broke away and turned back toward Abbeysteads village.

Jeff B

[jeffbutcher]

in reply to: Local swallows #2907

Friday 9th one swallow seen at Moss Side Farm, Heversham early afternoon.

Jeff B

[jeffbutcher]

in reply to: Foulshaw yesterday #2906

We went on 9th.

The ospreys were missing but we saw one at another site.
Pair of kestrels seen.
Chiffchaff pair as well as other singing bird
Willow warbler singing at the car park.
No sign of tree pipit that day.

Jeff B

[jeffbutcher]

in reply to: Leighton Moss #2750

We did blue gate end early-ish, then up to Centre and Skytower, back to Causeway and Lower path, back to Centre for lunch.

Can add to above:
11 chiffchaffs – most singing but 2 not
1 nuthatch heard, 2 treecreepers seen.
Very good view of a Cetti’s singing on the boardwalk.
Two small flocks of sand martins seen very high when looking at buzzards – each flock had 1 house martin with it.
Great black-backed gulls nesting on Island again, another individual checking them out.
1 sparrowhawk and 1 kestrel also seen
1 brimstone butterfly

Jeff B

[jeffbutcher]

in reply to: Blackbird ‘Police Siren’ vocalisations #2716

Must say I find starlings most annoying. We have ne in Bare that mimics the buzzard cry – it has me looking up every time in the hope that an actual buzzard is overhead.

25 years ago I lived in a mobile home for a couple of years and had an early form of mobile phone. My local starling there did a perfect imitation and often had me dashing in from the garden to answer it.

Jeff B

[jeffbutcher]

in reply to: Teal Bay on 22nd #2692

There were still 5 pintail at Teal Bay on 21st March.

Jeff B

[jeffbutcher]

in reply to: Blackcap #2517

Female blackcap in same hedge in Happy Mount Park this morning, along with a pair of bullfinch and a song thrush. Still a lot of blackbirds in the Park.

Jeff B

[jeffbutcher]

in reply to: Breeding collared dove #2237

They have been singing in Happy Mount Park for some time now and today two were mating.
Jeff

[jeffbutcher]

in reply to: Stonechat & Coal Tits #1951

Still at least 4 in Happy Mount Park this morning.

Jeff B

[jeffbutcher]

in reply to: Various, Torrisholme CC #1882

Ref Nuthatch. They were present through the breeding season in Happy Mount Park but we haven’t seen or heard one since about 17th October.
(Still have a reasonable tit flock, a bit fragmented, with long-tailed, great, blue and coal tits, goldcrest and treecreeper, sporadically present. Clearly Happy Mount Park is a centre for this flock but it roams widely. Grey wagtail still present, also.)

Jeff B

[jeffbutcher]

in reply to: Conder, Glasson & Cockersands #1703

Similar sightings.
15.15 Lune at Glasson – much of the wader stuff had gone. on the river 2 goldeneye males, 2 goosander. Distant on Marsh, 1 great white egret.

Jeff B

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[jeffbutcher]

in reply to: Bits and bobs #1683

Where is your WeBs count, please Garry?

[jeffbutcher]

in reply to: Leighton Moss #1678

We went yesterday afternoon and saw the hybrid shoveler but not the ring-necked duck. The great black-backed gull was sitting hopefully on the under-water island.

The path from the causeway to lower is still open and we saw a good array of the usuals there – marsh tit, nuthatch included.

After sunset we went and stood on the road just east of the reserve. We had just one woodcock fly out of the wood over to the field before it got too dark to clearly make out the things moving. We also heard at least three separate tawny owls calling.

Jeff B

[jeffbutcher]

in reply to: Heysham Warblers etc. #1614

3 goldcrests in Happy Mount Park but that is not unusual.

(I recall being at Spurn when there was a goldcrest fall – nearly a thousand birds counted)

Jeff B

[jeffbutcher]

in reply to: Search Function … new web design #1587

Hi Eddy. I think the answer is in the very first post by Andrew. Jeff B

[jeffbutcher]

in reply to: Great crested grebes #1558

Later at 14.40 by the Broadway there was a pair of red-breasted merganser.

Jeff B

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