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in reply to: Conder Pool #5121
Pete Woodruff later counted 19 Avocet at Conder Pool.
Pete C
in reply to: Lune Cycleway #49352 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
in reply to: A Wet and Windy Weekend #4823Pine 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 ShovelerBarrow Scout (From Crag Road)
7 PochardPete C
in reply to: Dockacres& Eric Morecambe & Brambling #4637Hi 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 7444Fell End – SD 4973 7776
Eric Morecambe Pools – SD 4764 7305 (but you probably know that one already).
Pete C
in reply to: Bewicks Swans at Jeremy Lane, Thurnham today #4468At 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
in reply to: River Lune from Lancaster skatepark #41102 adult Med Gulls on River Lune between Greyhound and Skerton Bridges this morning.
Pete C
in reply to: Ashton Mediterraneans #3847Hi Dan, Did you manage to read the colour-ring on that adult Med?
in reply to: Conder Pool #3699Another 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
in reply to: Copridding Wood, Arnside #3666Hi Steve,
Yes, totally agree – plenty of tempting buddleia at the moment, but not many butterflies on them.
Pete C
in reply to: Lune– Green Ayre and Aqueduct area #3599Hi Dan,
Just spotted the photo on Twitter – its J8LA. Ringed at Nybroa, Oslo, Norway on 3/4/2009.
Pete C
in reply to: Lune– Green Ayre and Aqueduct area #3598HI 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
in reply to: Feral Snow Geese – Stodday #3403Hi 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
in reply to: Condor Green Spotted Redshank. #3103A 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
in reply to: Conder and Cockersands #2971Greenfinch 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 SandpiperPete C
in reply to: Glasson Dock – Thurnham Mill #2889Another 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 CreekPete C
in reply to: Aldcliffe Marsh #2740Also 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
in reply to: Eric Morecambe from Viewpoint, Holmere & Hare Tarn #266736 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
in reply to: Colour-ringed Black-tailed Godwit #2576So 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
in reply to: Neck-collared Pink-footed Geese at Aldcliffe #2408After 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
in reply to: Lesser White-fronted Goose Aldcliffe #2360The pattern of barring on the belly suggests that the Lesser W-fG is the same bird as at Piling recently.
The Pink-footed Goose flock in the pasture fields north of ‘the Flooded Field’ also contained an adult Tundra Bean Goose (a monster of a bird), while the Flooded Field held 23 Black-tailed Godwit, including 1 colour-ringed bird (Right leg: Green / White // White / metal. Left leg: Orange).
Pete C
If you stand by the ‘Biffa’ bins by the entrance roundabout to ‘scope the Ring-necked Duck in the NE corner it could be up to 850 metres away from you. (I’ve got access to an Ordnance Survey website for schools which has a really useful measuring tool on it.) At that distance the contrast between the white on the fore flanks compared with light grey on the rest of the flanks is probably the best feature to look for.
Pete C
Some numbers for the Aldcliffe goosefest:
Fields between Freeman’s Pools and Wildfowlers’ Pools – c. 2500 Pink-footed Geese and c.270 Greylag Geese (including 5 with orange neck collars – PSA, PSI, PPC, SFJ and SNB).
South end of Aldcliffe Marsh – 2 Russian White-fronted Geese (much closer views than yesterday confirmed the bill colour as pink), 2 Barnacle Geese, 130 Greylag Geese (including orange neck collar PXL) and 252 Canada Geese (including 2 with red darvic rings on their left legs, but too distant to read).
Flooded Field at the end of Aldcliffe Hall Lane – 93 Teal and 10 Shoveler
Pete C
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