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Reports Of The Demise Of V49 Are Premature
I was back at Little Singleton before work this morning. Again I struggled to find many geese, initially I could see only three Pinkfeet, but as more joined them on the sandbanks it became clear there were hundreds in the saltmarsh. V35 from Svalbard was present for at least its third day. The white neck…
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The Confidence Of Youth
An early jaunt before work to see if the geese were still at Little Singleton. They were, but a lot of them were out of view behind hedges bordering the pasture they were feeding in. The Svalbard collared bird was still in the flock. There was also a lone Greylag in with the Pink-feet, see…
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Goose Geekiness
I dropped Jane at her early gym class this morning, and for the first time it was light enough to do some birding rather than go home and wait. I headed for Skippool, where the many yachts in various states of repair and disrepair always look good on a sunny spring morning. There wasn’t a…
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Barely A Murmur
After work I went to Marton Mere, partly for a change of scene and partly in case the first Sand Martins had made it. In the event no martins came in towards dusk, and my attention focused on the mini-murmuration of Starlings. There were probably no more than 400 birds even at the peak as…
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Seeing Swans
Last week I wrote about unsuccessfully looking for migrating Whoopers early morning off Blackpool. The last couple of mornings have been more successful. Yesterday Jane and I were due to volunteer at the junior parkrun, but with lighter mornings this still gave an hour or so beforehand to work with. We parked at Rossall Beach…
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CBC Foulney Outing
Yesterday I joined nine or ten other Cumbria Bird Club members for a walk onto Foulney Island. This trip report is written with people who don’t really know the area in mind. Foulney is on the north west lip of Morecambe Bay. You access it from a car park half way along Roa Island causeway.…
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Cumbrian Cetti’s
I was up in Barrow today for a Cumbria Bird Club outing on Foulney Island, and then the football. I will write up the Foulney trip tomorrow, the less said about the football the better as although they drew it’s looking increasingly bleak in terms of League status. On the way up to these engagements…
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Keep On Trucking
Got out seawatching again before work again with the calm weather. It’s genuinely always a privilege to be on the Promenade on nice spring mornings, but it was quiet initially. I was ship watching to start with as the wind farm supply boat moved across the horizon, then the Seatruck Performance came in from Warrenpoint.…
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Rainy Rowley
As I was in Burnley for the morning and not far from Rowley Lake, which I had never visited, I dropped in on a mizzly Thursday lunchtime. I hadn’t realised until today that it was part of the Brun Valley Forest Park, which I have to admit I had never heard of. I knew there…
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An Artisitic Interlude
Anyone who knows me will be aware that I am terrible at art. I do like bird art though, and I am fortunate enough to have been able to commission some over the years. At some point I might mention that in more detail in a blog post. I am also fortunate enough to live…
