Winter thrushes have been arriving in good number on the back of the ongoing N/E winds. Yesterday at the watch point at Caldene Fields 1,508 Redwings passed through mainly to the N/W and today 4,647 moved again to the N…
I think I will have to wait till next year…
At the moment I have recorded 199 marco moths in our recording areas with the vast majority been caught and identified at Caldene Fields. I have just started to get to grips with recording micro moths and the total so…
Thrushes…
The first Redwings and migrant Song thrushes of the year passed over Caldene Fields this morning which was a bit of a surprise given the S/E wind. However, it turns out that there was an arrival in Scotland which accounts…
A new bird chases through…
At 13.45 today at Caldene fields a number of Magpies and Jackaws were very agitated…The reason a Peregrine Falcon a probable juvenile suddenly appeared low over the fields followed by a number of Magpies. The bird then gained height as it saw a number…
WRYNECK…
Received a report via my website of a lady at Oakenshaw near to TH Beck that on 17/8/2015 she saw what she described as a browny greyish Lesser Spotted Woodpecker on a tree in her garden. The lady watched the…
Autumn butterflies and Ragwort…
The plant Ragwort always seems to get bad press as it can be poisonous to horses. But from a wildlife perspective Ragwort is an excellent wildlife plant and provides food into November for many insects. With the weather being fairly warm and sunny today…
Moths and the Southerly winds…
The recent south/easterly winds have been bringing migrants moths to mainly southern Britain from the near continent. The moth that everyone is talking about is the Convolvulus Hawk-moth. The chances of getting one of these large beautiful moths in Bradford is I…
Holly Blue and the one that got away…
Yesterday I found a female Holly Blue feeding on heather at Raw Nook Nr…It is uncommon to have sightings of this species in autumn here. Then as I was walking back through the reserve I glimpsed a juvenile Phylloscopus warbler showing…
Goldfinches a plenty…
I decided to do a mornings birding around the patch today with two things in mind. One was to see if there were any new migrants passing through and the other to see how many local migrants had moved on…
Great Spotted Woodpeckers on the move…
Whilst conducting my visible migration watch this morning at Caldene Fields I observed 4 single Great Spotted Woodpeckers flying to the west plus I had one local bird in Raw Nook Nr…all very interesting. Though the birds do not typically…
