The Ring-necked Parakeet at Caldene fields that first appeared on the 27/11/17 disappeared from the area around the time on the heavy snowfall just before Christmas 2017. It was not seen over the Christmas period but reappeared on the 2/1/18.…
A Happy New Year…
Yes a very Happy and Safe New Year to all. A review of our wildlife for 2017 will follow in the next few days.
Website issues…and new fungi..
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…
