7 Spot Ladybird close to Chorlton Water Park. You can run but you can’t hide …………… deep within a flowerhead an aphid attempts to hide from a 7 Spot Ladybird. Read More …
Tread carefully ……..
Meadow Brown, along the banks of the River Mersey close to Chorlton Water Park. With the easing of the lockdown we’ve really been looking forward to getting out a bit more. However a casual flick of the wrist and a walk along the banks of Read More …
Bird eye view
Herb Paris, Gait Barrow National Nature Reserve. A few highlights from a far too brief visit to Gait Barrows National Nature Reserve tucked away on the edge of Morecambe Bay close to Silverdale. With an 18 month old Border Collie for company the opportunities for Read More …
Padley Gorge
Pied Flycatcher, Padley Gorge – part of the National Trust’s Longshaw Estate.
A superb area of Oak woodland but also ridiculously busy on a warm spring afternoon. Ideally I would have liked to have stayed a bit longer but it was proving difficult to escape the maddening crowd. Read More …
Stay Alert !
High up above the grouse moors and the first opportunity to enjoy some unlimited exercise since the country went into “lockdown.” After parking a slow, but steady walk led uphill past the conifer plantations, over the grouse moors, past the wet flushes and bogs with Read More …
Gregarious
Watching a colony of Sand Martins and the high speed interaction of the individual birds is fascinating. Although perhaps not quite as glamorous as the closely related Swallows or House Martins the diminutive Sand Martin more than makes up for it with their gregarious nature and character. Read More …
The absent Father
Unable to fly the chicks are totally dependent upon Mum. With the bank patrolled by Herons the young Goosanders have good reason to be wary Read More …
Sand Martins
With the Coronavirus lockdown still in force Saturday’s 1 hour of exercise was spent slightly further away from the normal patch and upstream close to a colony of Sand Martins. Read More …
Brave, new world
Unsure if it was just nerves but definitely not going quietly …. a bit of reassurance and they were off. Read More …