[Pete Crooks]

in reply to: Spoonbill #5612

No sign of the Spoonbill in a quick check from the Crag Road viewpoint at 2.30 pm this afternoon.
48 Avocet – mostly on the Allen Pool
150 Black-tailed Godwit – mostly on the Flood
1 2nd CY Mediterranean Gull – Allen Pool
Male Cinnamon Teal x Shoveler hybrid – Barrow Scout

Pete C

[Pete Crooks]

in reply to: Whimbrel – Quernmore #5434

A total of 56 Whimbrel today – 16 in the usual field (SD 508 606), 36 circling then landing in a field by Littledale Road, Stock-a-bank and 4 in another field by Little Fell Road (SD 507 602) at 1.30 pm.

Pete C

[Pete Crooks]

in reply to: Whimbrel – Quernmore #5421

A total of 57 Whimbrel – 53 in the usual field (SD 508 606) and 4 in a field across the road (SD 506 604) at 1.50 pm.

Pete C

[Pete Crooks]

in reply to: Whimbrel – Quernmore #5411

41 Whimbrel in the same field (SD 508 606) at 4.40 pm this afternoon.

Pete C

[Pete Crooks]

in reply to: Conder Pool #5121

Pete Woodruff later counted 19 Avocet at Conder Pool.

Pete C

[Pete Crooks]

in reply to: Lune Cycleway #4935

2 adult summer Mediterranean Gulls flew south over the River Lune at Aldcliffe Marsh at 1.40 pm.

156 Teal and 20 Black-tailed Godwit on the flooded field at the end of Aldcliffe Hall Lane.

Pete C

[Pete Crooks]

in reply to: A Wet and Windy Weekend #4823

Pine Lake – Sunday morning
1 male Scaup
52 Pochard (including a single group of 45 at one point)
68 Tufted Duck
15 Goldeneye
40 Wigeon
6 Shoveler

Barrow Scout (From Crag Road)
7 Pochard

Pete C

[Pete Crooks]

in reply to: Dockacres& Eric Morecambe & Brambling #4637

Hi Alasdair,

Here are some eight-figure grid references for you:

‘Dockacres’ is complicated as it tends to be used as the ‘catch-all’ description for several adjacent bodies of water whose names have changed several times over the years:
Hare Tarn – SD 5180 7159
Dockacres ‘Main Pool’ (now called something like Catch-88 ?) – SD 5201 7222
Dockacres ‘Back Pool’ – SD 5223 7255
Pine Lake – SD 5135 7230
Fountain Pool (South Lakeland Leisure Village) – SD 5160 7282
Twin Lakes (Twetfield Fisheries ? and formerly called ‘Baby Doc’) – SD 5137 7323
Holmere – SD 5115 7444

Fell End – SD 4973 7776

Eric Morecambe Pools – SD 4764 7305 (but you probably know that one already).

Pete C

[Pete Crooks]

in reply to: Bewicks Swans at Jeremy Lane, Thurnham today #4468

At 11.45 am there were 8 Bewick’s Swans in the fields west of Jeremy Lane – the family group relatively close to the road and another group of 4 adults further away. Earlier these 8 had been together in a single group near Clarkson’s Farm, Moss Lane.

Also at least 105 Whooper Swan in fields between Clarkson’s Farm and Jeremy Lane, but mostly obscured by hedges and difficult to see easily.

Pete C

[Pete Crooks]

in reply to: River Lune from Lancaster skatepark #4110

2 adult Med Gulls on River Lune between Greyhound and Skerton Bridges this morning.

Pete C

[Pete Crooks]

in reply to: Ashton Mediterraneans #3847

Hi Dan, Did you manage to read the colour-ring on that adult Med?

[Pete Crooks]

in reply to: Conder Pool #3699

Another visit to Conder Pool to coincide with this afternoon’s high tide:
120 Redshank – far fewer than yesterday
13 Greenshank
46 Dunlin
9 Common Sandpiper
1 Bar-tailed Godwit
2 Black-tailed Godwit
6 Avocet (2 adults, 4 juveniles – one with yellow flag on left tibia – 6J)

Also:
15 Common Tern (8 adults, 3 fledged juveniles, 4 chicks on the tern raft)
9 Little Grebe (7 adults, 2 juveniles)

Aldcliffe Road, Lancaster – 1 Common Tern fishing in Lancaster Canal between Penny Street Bridge and the Water Witch!

Pete C

[Pete Crooks]

in reply to: Copridding Wood, Arnside #3666

Hi Steve,

Yes, totally agree – plenty of tempting buddleia at the moment, but not many butterflies on them.

Pete C

[Pete Crooks]

in reply to: Lune– Green Ayre and Aqueduct area #3599

Hi Dan,

Just spotted the photo on Twitter – its J8LA. Ringed at Nybroa, Oslo, Norway on 3/4/2009.

Pete C

[Pete Crooks]

in reply to: Lune– Green Ayre and Aqueduct area #3598

HI Dan,

Are you sure about that Norwegian colour-ringed Black-headed Gull? I’ve seen J8LA there on several occasions, but not JL8A.

Pete C

[Pete Crooks]

in reply to: Feral Snow Geese – Stodday #3403

Hi Sue,

I’m not sure if either of the people I spoke to were fishermen. One of them was someone who regularly walks his gang of c.10 dogs of various sizes at Aldcliffe.

A flock of 33 feral Snow Geese were seen on the Northumberland coast this morning.

Pete C

[Pete Crooks]

in reply to: Condor Green Spotted Redshank. #3103

A quick check in a downpour at 4.00 pm:

Conder Pool – 7 Avocet, 1 Spotted Redshank (later flew to Conder Creek), 11 Tufted Duck, 1 Pink-footed Goose

Conder Creek – 8 Greenshank, 80 Black-tailed Godwit, 15 Bar-tailed Godwit, 1 Whimbrel

Pete C

[Pete Crooks]

in reply to: Conder and Cockersands #2971

Greenfinch Cafe – Glasson Dock – Conder Green this afternoon:

Salt marsh between Conder Creek and Glasson Dock – 2 Raven (mobbed by 2 Carrion Crow)
Glasson Church – 18 Tree Sparrow on feeders in garden next to church
Conder Pool – 4 Avocet
Conder Creek – 2 Avocet, 2 Greenshank, 1 Common Sandpiper

Pete C

[Pete Crooks]

in reply to: Glasson Dock – Thurnham Mill #2889

Another walk along the canal from Glasson Dock to Thurnham Mill produced:

7 Tree Sparrow in the garden next to Glasson Church
9 Avocet, c.100 Black-tailed Godwit and 2 Shoveler at Conder Pool
1 Greenshank at Conder Creek

Pete C

[Pete Crooks]

in reply to: Aldcliffe #2811

16 Goldeneye on Freeman’s Pools this evening.

Pete C

[Pete Crooks]

in reply to: Aldcliffe Marsh #2740

Also 3 Small Tortoiseshell and 1 female Brimstone along Dawson’s Bank between the parking area and the Wildfowlers’ Pools.

Just the ‘resident’ flock of 8 Ringed Plover and 1 Dunlin on the Wildfowlers’ Pools.

Pete C

[Pete Crooks]

in reply to: Eric Morecambe from Viewpoint, Holmere & Hare Tarn #2667

36 Avocets from the Crag Road viewpoint this morning – 19 on the Flood, 4 on the Eric Morecambe Pool, 13 on the Allen Pool.

Also: 1 Great White Egret on Barrow Scout Fields, 200 Pink-footed Geese on the salt marsh beyond the Eric Morecambe Pools and 500 Black-tailed Godwit on the Eric Morecambe Pool.

Pete C

[Pete Crooks]

in reply to: Colour-ringed Black-tailed Godwit #2576

So my Bl-t Godwit estimate was out by c.11.5% – not good!

I forgot to add: 15 Ringed Plover on the Wildfowlers’ Pools which have been nicely topped up by the recent rain and are looking good for early spring waders – LRP, Avocet and more cr Icewits (as I believe they are now called) hopefully.

Pete C

[Pete Crooks]

in reply to: Neck-collared Pink-footed Geese at Aldcliffe #2408

After a quick internet search I came across the following comment in the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union on-line newsletter (22/1/20): “The two Pink-footed Geese seen at Elm House Farm (near Saltfleetby – Theddlethorpe Dunes NNR) on 17th December 2019 were ringed at WWT Martin Mere. A male, neck collar VCN, on 22/3/2018 and a female with the GPS tag number 6 and a white darvic leg ring with black 74, on 1/12/2016.

So presumably not the birds I saw at Aldcliffe Marsh on 19/2/19, but certainly the pair from yesterday. Hopefully the female’s GPS data has an interesting story to tell.

Pete C

[Pete Crooks]

in reply to: Aldcliffe #2372

Interestingly another cr Black-tailed Godwit also ringed at Snettisham on 1-9-19 (O-YW//W) was at Aldcliffe on 14th and 25th March last year.

Pete C

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