A blog and photo journal about the natural history of north-west England and beyond
The Ribble Estuary NNR just under 10 miles south of Blackpool Tower and home to over quarter of a million waders and wildfowl during the winter. On Saturday 21st Feb the highest tide of the year came rolling in. Typical, you really couldn’t make it Read More …
Highlights from another trip to the coast – the RSPB reserve at Marshside just north of Southport. Plenty of Avocets and Black-tailed Godwits with circa 150 Wigeon hanging on for a change in the weather before moving north. Also a Spoonbill and several Snipe around. Read More …
Avocets at Leighton Moss (a rare digiscoped effort). The end of March and locally we’re still awaiting the arrival of the first summer migrants. The closet we’ve had is a male Stonechat at Millgate Fields but this was a case of passing through rather Read More …