A beautiful day in early May complete with stunning scenery, blue sky, sunshine and a bike ride following the River Dunsop upstream from Dunsop Bridge to Whitendale. By a complete coincidence one of western Europe’s rarest migrating birds just happened to drop in at the former Read More …
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Orange-tips & Blackcaps
Orange-tip – Kenworthy Wood, Northern Moor (opposite Chorlton Water Park) A quick catch-up from St George’s Day and a sunny weekend. Despite a cool breeze a surprising number of butterflies on the wing. In addition to the Orange-tips, several Small Tortoiseshell, Brimstones, Peacocks and even an Read More …
Brooding……….
Long-tailed Tit gathering moss at Sale Water Park. After what seems like several months a couple of days of sunshine created an ideal opportunity to dust the bike off and head off down the Trans-Pennine Trail towards Sale Water Park. Feeling a little bit unsure of Read More …
Is there anybody out there…………
A pair of courting Great Crested Grebes at Meresands Wood LWT reserve. Despite making all the right moves this particular pair are yet to successfully raise any young. Hopefully this year they’ll succeed. More highlights from a recent tour of west Lancashire. Really good to be out Read More …
Tufty’s last stand?
A glorious spring day and an opportunity to head off to the coast before the masses arrived. On arrival at Formby it was surprising to see half the car park taped off and being used for filming. After parking up we headed south towards the Read More …
Waxwings at Hulme Garden Centre
Bohemian Waxwing feeding on apples at Hulme Garden Centre. Despite all the recent gentrification it seems quite apt that 3 Bohemian Waxwings recently decided to drop in at Hulme Community Garden Centre. Incredibly tame and quite content to feed next to a bus stop they enjoyed the over-ripe Read More …
Leighton Moss
Little Egret on the hunt close to the Grisedale hide. Hard to believe but I’m now the wrong side of 50! To celebrate we continued with a time-honoured, tradition of taking a couple of days off work with one of them being spent at the RSPB’s Read More …
Alien Encounter
Great to have an opportunity to visit a local woodland during daylight over the Christmas and New Year break. The unmistakable sound of Ring-necked Parakeets arriving shortly after dawn has become increasingly common. Quite surprising to see them excavating a new nesting hole on 2nd January. Read More …
The Woodley Waxwing
Great to see the arrival of the Bohemian Waxwings on the outskirts of Stockport. Over the past couple of months they’ve gradually been working their way south since arriving up in the north east from the vast coniferous forests of northern Russia and Finland. Although so Read More …