Water Rail 1
Swallow 1
Sand Martin 5
Gadwall 9 (5 males, 4 females)
Goldeneye 2 (females)
Teal 2 (male and female)
Chiffchaff 3 singing
Kingfisher 1
Tufted Duck 17
I found this Tawny Owl roosting in a bush.
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Eccleston Mere
Tawny Owl 1
Water Rail 1
Swallow 1
Sand Martin 5
Gadwall 9 (5 males, 4 females)
Goldeneye 2 (females)
Teal 2 (male and female)
Chiffchaff 3 singing
Kingfisher 1
Tufted Duck 17
I found this Tawny Owl roosting in a bush.
Water Rail 1
Swallow 1
Sand Martin 5
Gadwall 9 (5 males, 4 females)
Goldeneye 2 (females)
Teal 2 (male and female)
Chiffchaff 3 singing
Kingfisher 1
Tufted Duck 17
I found this Tawny Owl roosting in a bush.
Alder Lane, Winwick
Green Sandpiper 1
Little Ringed Plover 1
Oystercatcher 2
Teal 5
Green Sandpiper, Teal and Little Ringed Plover. I'm not sure why these fields should hold such a good selection of birds. The best I can come up with is that perhaps the birds use the Sankey Valley as a corridor to migrate along, which would also explain why Penkford Flash at Earlestown can be good.
Little Ringed Plover 1
Oystercatcher 2
Teal 5
Green Sandpiper, Teal and Little Ringed Plover. I'm not sure why these fields should hold such a good selection of birds. The best I can come up with is that perhaps the birds use the Sankey Valley as a corridor to migrate along, which would also explain why Penkford Flash at Earlestown can be good.
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Monday, 8 April 2013
Eccleston Mere
Swallow 1
Sand Martin 1
Water Rail 1
Willow Tit 1
Gadwall 10
Kingfisher 1
Nuthatch 1
Teal 2
Goldeneye 2
Slowly but surely spring is getting here, but it's freezing in that wind when the sun goes behind a cloud! The Water Rail is showing very well at the moment, more often than not in the middle of the afternoon, and the Willow Tit is now being seen daily in the southern flooded woodland.
Year 160 (Swallow)
Sand Martin 1
Water Rail 1
Willow Tit 1
Gadwall 10
Kingfisher 1
Nuthatch 1
Teal 2
Goldeneye 2
Slowly but surely spring is getting here, but it's freezing in that wind when the sun goes behind a cloud! The Water Rail is showing very well at the moment, more often than not in the middle of the afternoon, and the Willow Tit is now being seen daily in the southern flooded woodland.
Year 160 (Swallow)
Mosslands birding
Ring Ouzel 1 male
Golden Plover 300
Merlin 1
Wheatear 5
Grey Partridge 2
Barn Owl 1
Shelduck 150
Curlew 25
It was a bitterly cold wind first thing this morning, nearly cut me in half! I arrived at my first stop at 7:15am, stopped the car, lifted my binoculars and the first bird I saw was a male Ring Ouzel! Nice!
I was on the mosslands between Ormskirk and Southport, the same place where previously I had wonderful views of the harriers in the winter. No Harriers today, but I was more than compensated by a flock of 300 Golden Plover, many in spectacular breeding plumage. A Merlin dashed across and briefly spread panic, there were Shelduck everywhere and five Wheatears were my first of the year, as were two Grey Partridge. At dusk I watched a Barn Owl hunting.
Year 159 (Ring Ouzel, Grey Partridge, Wheatear)
Golden Plover.
Ring Ouzel and Shelduck. Shelduck are one of my favourite birds, partly because I always used to associate them with Llandudno Junction station, where I saw my first on the Conwy estuary in about 1972! I counted about 150 Shelduck today, of which this was the largest flock, with nearly 60 birds in this one field.
Golden Plover 300
Merlin 1
Wheatear 5
Grey Partridge 2
Barn Owl 1
Shelduck 150
Curlew 25
It was a bitterly cold wind first thing this morning, nearly cut me in half! I arrived at my first stop at 7:15am, stopped the car, lifted my binoculars and the first bird I saw was a male Ring Ouzel! Nice!
I was on the mosslands between Ormskirk and Southport, the same place where previously I had wonderful views of the harriers in the winter. No Harriers today, but I was more than compensated by a flock of 300 Golden Plover, many in spectacular breeding plumage. A Merlin dashed across and briefly spread panic, there were Shelduck everywhere and five Wheatears were my first of the year, as were two Grey Partridge. At dusk I watched a Barn Owl hunting.
Year 159 (Ring Ouzel, Grey Partridge, Wheatear)
Golden Plover.
Ring Ouzel and Shelduck. Shelduck are one of my favourite birds, partly because I always used to associate them with Llandudno Junction station, where I saw my first on the Conwy estuary in about 1972! I counted about 150 Shelduck today, of which this was the largest flock, with nearly 60 birds in this one field.
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