This morning at Raw Nook NR I had just finished photographing a really nice selection of Scarlet Elf Cup mushrooms which I have not seen before at the site when I saw a group of school children and their teachers from Low Moor…
Pink-footed geese…
Two skeins of 186 Pink-footed geese flew N/W over Caldene Fields this morning.
A bonus from the wet weather !
Caldene Fields thankfully are not flooded but they are very very wet and muddy. However, certain bird species are taking advantage of these conditions with large quantities of invertebrate now available. This morning I recorded 21 Pied wagtails feeding in…
Raw Nook NR hits the WORLD stage…
I thought it was a joke when a good friend of mine Shaun the chairman of the Bradford Ornithological Group telephone to say Raw Nook Nature reserve is featured in a book that has just come out called Tales From Concrete…
A Happy and Safe New Year from the Low Moor & Oakenshaw Conservation Group…
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Local Patch survives the floods…
With nearby areas like Elland under flood water following the Boxing day floods as the river Calder burst it’s banks I wondered what effect the deluge of water would have on our local patch? Thankfully very little flooding has occurred as the…
Mild winter bird watch…
I have been thinking has this mild winter period had any effects on the bird species in our recording area. So today with the weather sunny with a fairly strong S/W wind and a temperature of 10c I decided to conduct a bird…
Conservation work …
Our group the Low Moor and Oakenshaw Conservation group had a work day today in the sub zero temperatures of mid winter…well that what the weather should have been but as we know this winter has been VERY mild and…
Visible migration comes to an end…
Visible migration from the watch point at Caldene Fields is over for this year. This morning’s watch with excellent visibility showed very little moving apart from Goldfinches and a few Starlings which came in from the N/E. However, there was…
A Crossbill moves west…
I had a nice surprise this morning when a calling Crossbill flew directly over head at Caldene Fields. The species is not common here and is only located on passage.
