I’m not doing enough to reduce my birding carbon footprint, but that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t share my efforts to improve. Today I had a work meeting in Bispham at the north end of the North Blackpool Pond Trail. I live fairly near the end of south end of the NBPT so I decided to cycle there.
Pond Trail Map
The picture at the head of the article is from Kincraig Lake. I’ve done a more detailed piece on this site in the past. It really is a little jewel in Blackpool’s wildlife crown. As well as the pair of Mute Swans with five cygnets you can see in the crap phone shot the Great Crested Grebes with their excellent brood of four young were closer on the left before slipping away into the channel by the islands.
On the way home when I decided I might do a post about this I also took the picture below. This is the southernmost pond on the above map, more or less due south of where it says ‘Community Orchard’. As well as the heron and a Moorhen there were also several swallows swooping over the surface. Any picture in a blog about Blackpool wildlife with the tower in it gets bonus points in my book.
My afternoon meeting was at @theGrange, appropriately enough on Grange Park. I also cycled there, and as I headed through the estate I could hear the distinctive guttural cronking of a Raven. You’ll have to trust me that it was a Raven, and it’s a classic case of knowing calls paying dividends.
Another post I did on here recommend the book Low Carbon Birding. I’m not going to preach, not least because I’m in no position to do so, but what’s not to like about building birding into your normal working day and doing your small bit for the environment.
Natural Selection 
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