I took a walk onto the Dealburn Road Woodland site in Low Moor today and just as I was leaving the site a daytime flying moth caught my eye as it rested on a leaf. I first thought good it’s…
An explosion of White-Lipped Land Snails…
Over the last few days I have noticed a large amount of snails mainly at Toad Holes Beck. After doing a bit of research I identified the snails to be White-Lipped Land Snails and they come in various colours ranging from…
Local Patch challenge results…
I conducted my local patch challenge on the 11th of May. My aim was to get 45+ species. But I only managed 42 species. There were no real surprises and new migrants in apart from 4 Swifts, no Common or…
Chinese visitors think our site is very Měilì…
This morning I set off hoping to see maybe a new migrant that had come in overnight or before dawn but sadly I didn’t. But what I saw was very strange!. At the top of Raw Nook Nr I saw…
Local Patch Challenge…
Ornithologically it has been another poor day here on my local patch with a single House Martin in and a single passage Willow Warbler moving west through Caldene Fields. So I have decided to put some more effort in and…
Smooth Newts doing really well…
I,ve noticed recently how well the Smooth Newt is doing in our recording area with 13 seen this morning at Caldene Fields. And a Long tailed Tit was busy feeding young at one of the site but in general it…
New migrants thin on the ground…
There has been no known new migrants passing through our area during the last few days. The weather this weekend and for the following few days look good with a warm front pushing up from europe so fingers crossed.. So this…
I hope I was right…
I was out early this morning due to the southerly aspect to the wind. When I was walking through Raw Nook Nr I glimpsed a fairly pale brown passerine dive for cover showing a warm reddish tail in low growing…
Winter returns on the 29th of April…
Relief and Concerns…
For those who have stood at the pond at Raw Nook Nr and faced west you may or then again may not have noticed a Moorhen sitting on eggs. Nothing unusual in that…but she choose to nest about 3 metres…
