Another good day at the watchpoint today with excellent numbers of House Martins and Swallow moving mainly to the N/W through Caldene Fields. The final counts were House Martins = 282 N/W + 67 S/W & Swallows 55 S/W and…
Swallows start to leave and a bit of a surprise…
I have had two good days of visible migration. Yesterday 251 Swallow moved through Caldene Fields with a further 131 today. The birds were moving to the south and northwest. However, I did have a welcome surprise this morning as…
Oh! no it’s just out of our recording area…
Claire the chairperson for our group told me this morning that she had seen a strange caterpillar on the road at the Greenway at Oakenshaw last week and after she did some research the beautiful caterpillar turned out to be…
Survey work reveals some interesting finds…
I have recently been conducting survey work at Raw Nook nr concentrating mainly on insects i.e. moths, hoverflies and other general insect orders. I am trying to build up a more comprehensive species lists for the insects that breed and…
Tree Pipit…
I observed a migrant Tree pipit today at Caldene fields…not seen this species for a good number of years on passage in our recording area.
Sightings update…
On the 10th of August at Caldene fields there was a Southern hawker dragonfly patrolling the fields. Later in the day I visited Raw Nook nr and found another Southern Hawker (or possibly the same one as CFs) however, this…
Rare moth found at Raw Nook nr…
On Saturday 29th of July I was looking for any new day time moths to record at Raw Nook nr and Caldene fields. At the former site I was looking in the heather near to the pond on my hands…
Citizens help out and welcome funds…
Citizens help out! what do you mean…Well let me explain. Sunday the 23rd of July was a Low Moor & Oakenshaw Conservation group work day grubbing up sapling Silver Birches and removing Rosebay Willowherb from the lowland heath at Raw…
Sightings update…
I found a juvenile female Common Redstart that appeared at Caldene fields on the 17/7/2017, the first sign of moving birds as the species does not breed locally. Three Poplar Hawkmoths and a single Peppered Moth were at Caldene fields…
Butterfly survey…
Yesterday as the sun shone I conducted a butterfly survey at Raw Nook Nr and Caldene Fields. A total of eight species were found which is relatively poor for mid summer. The butterflies I expected to record but didn’t were…
