Occasionally Birding St Helens 2008-2014

Large Heath!!! Surely at least a month early! There were at least five of these rare butterflies on the wing today. Large Yellow Sedge - Eve...

Large Red and Common Blue Damselflies This is a dragonfly exuvia, i.e. the remains of the larval exoskeleton which it lived in whilst in th...

Four-spot Chaser Herb Paris and Lady's Slipper Maidenhair Spleenwort and Wall Rue

Warblers singing in the Sankey Valley this morning, 7:10-7:50am, Carr Mill Dam to Mucky mountains, Earlestown: Blackcap 15; Whitethroat 11 (...

Two Common Terns over my house at Queens Park, near the town centre this morning. I regularly see these birds flying over during the summer....

One female Wheatear at Inglenook Farm, also one singing Corn Bunting here. A Dunlin in summer plumage flew low over the Old Coach Road, near...

I called in for a quick look for Club-tail Dragonflies and unsurprisingly was disappointed given the appalling weather, though there were a ...