BIRDING THE LUNE ESTUARY THE FOREST OF BOWLAND AND BEYOND......................................................MEDITTERANEAN GULLS CONDER POOL PETE WOODRUFF

Thursday 17 September 2015

Nice One!

Sanderling. David Cookson @ D C Images 


When I arrived at Plover Scar yesterday the number of waders present at high tide stood at a paltry eight birds, being 6 Dunlin and 2 Turnstone, but just five minutes later the number had risen to sixteen when 8 Sanderling flew in as a nice mid-September record for me and for Cockersands.
  
Wheatear. Pete Woodruff.


Other notes at Cockersands, up to 170 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 45 Herring Gull, and 18 Black-headed Gull were off the scar, 3 Wheatear on the headland, 6 Tree Sparrow around Bank Houses, and the local Kestrel seen again. 

Little Stint. Jan Larsson @ Vingspann 


Thanks to Fylde birder AC and his reliable and recently regular text messages to me, I eventually had decent if distant views of the juvenile Little Stint off Bank End Farm, and a Sparrowhawk which had taken out a Starling came to land close by to proceed with it's meal. On the wander back from here I saw c.60 Linnet

Little of any significance on the Lune Estuary at Glasson Dock, but a Spotted Redshank with Redshank was hoovering up along the tide-line, c.65 Wigeon and a Great-crested Grebe noted, and a Peregrine Falcon was surveying the landscape on Colloway Marsh.

A Conder Green where I started the day at near high tide, a Spotted Redshank and Greenshank seen, with 8 Little Grebe and a Great-crested Grebe of note on Conder Pool. I saw 3 House Martin around Cafe d' Lune still, but had no evidence of any approach towards any nests, and at least 50 Goldfinch were flighty over the marsh.

Thanks to DC/JL for their excellent photographs. 

3 comments:

  1. Interesting to finally see a well balanced reply from the government to Mr. Avery's petition. And after two petitions I imagine it is as good as he is going to get.

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  2. I'm not about to discuss this here Derek. But Mr Avery's petition was never going to change any aspect of the £250 million shooting industry, which this time around looks like it's heading for a bigger failure than the last one.

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  3. Thanks Pete, what you've said was enough.

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