Having a few technical issues with the website at the moment…Finger crossed should be sorted out after Christmas holidays.. Anyway back to more important matters. I found a rather attractive group of fungi at the base of a tree at…
Group workday…
Today myself and other members of the Low Moor & Oakenshaw Conservation Group gathered at 10.00 for our monthly workday. We have a water overflow problem at Toad Holes Beck as a drainage channel is blocked which causes one of the…
An old friend from Norway returns…
Yesterday all the local ponds were frozen….This was an ideal time to check up on my old friend from Norway…the Black-headed gull which appeared at nearby Harold Park lake in the winter of last year. And sure enough it was…
Frozen ponds bring out a welcome guest…
It was -4c when I set off today to check on the local patch. All but one pond at Toad Holes Beck were totally frozen. The pond in question is the large pond which had a thin layer of ice…
Species survey and a bit of a surprise…
Depending on your view but to me it was the first real bite of winter today. So I thought I would do a quick bird species survey in our recording area, just to see if the weather had brought anything new…
Ring-necked parakeet alert…
A bit of a surprise this one…a feeding female Ring-necked parakeet in the Low Moor area! The species is fairly common in the south and slowly spreading north. To date I have two previous records of this species but never…
Plenty in reserve at the group workday…
On Saturday morning our group had it’s monthly workday. There was another good turnout of volunteers armed with mattocks to continue removing the Silver Birch saplings from the lowland heath area. However, today we had some special guests, Karen a…
Vismig comes to an end…
Yes I have to admit that watching visible migration in our area is just about over for another year. I watched this today and like the last two mornings there has been little passing through. But getting up before dawn…
What that in the sky?…
At 06.50 this morning I was just setting off to watch visible migration when I saw the spectacular Venus-Jupiter conjunction where both Venus and Jupiter can clearly be seen together in the sky. Jupiter is at the top and Venus…
Hawfinch alert…
Another Hawfinch flew west over the watch point this morning at Caldene fields. However, there was a strong possibility that a second bird came in a couple of minutes later. This bird dropped into some trees around the Wyke area.…
