I enjoyed flicking through the little black book for some highlights of birds found or seen through 2025. It was never going to be regarded as a spectacular year, but at least it resulted in getting much more of a fix from my birding than anything else.
* Excellent species and or location records....Photos & Video Pete Woodruff.
January
15 Bullfinch pair Lanc's Cemetery *
17 Common Scoter Stone Jetty M'cbe
17 Scaup Broadway M'cbe
25 Blackcap male home garden *
February
13 Hen Harrier male C'sand
18/ 27 Marsh Harrier female C'sand
March
6 Tundra Bean Goose with c.5,000 Pink-footed Geese C'sand *
12 Barnacle Goose Conder Pool *
12 March Harrier C'sand
12 Whooper Swan c.500 C'sand *
19 Hen Harrier in flight N>S over Moss Lane C'sand
20 Bullfinch 2xmale/female Lanc's cemetery *
24 Mediterranean Gull adult/Little Ringed Plover Conder Pool
26 Spotted Redshank Conder Pool
April
9 Garden Warbler Crag Wood early record *
11 Ring Ouzel female Hawthornthwaite *
29 Willow Warbler at least 50 Birk Bank circuit
29 Bullfinch 2/Cuckoo 2 Birk Bank *
May
7 Crossbill 15 Tower Lodge Bowland *
18 Cetti's Warbler Glasson
June
25 June 7 of 17 Mediterranean Gull Conder Pool *
July
9 Swift at least 20 Fairfield Lanc's
August
6 Green Woodpecker Birk Bank *
20 Yellow Wagtail 2 Conder Pool *
22 Ruff 20/Wood Sandpiper Heversham Moss
28 Ruff 19/Green Sandpiper Conder Pool *
September
5 Greenshank 32 Conder Pool *
9 Curlew Sandpiper Lune Estuary
25 Crossbill pair Ottergear Bridge *
October
30 Merlin male C'sand
November
12 Snow Bunting 2 C'sand
20 November Bewick's Swan 2 Slack Lane C'sand *
24 Pintail drake Conder Pool
24 Pink-footed Geese c.3,500 Slack Lane C'sand
December
23 Brent Geese 52 Heysham
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Hoping you have good birding in 2026....
A Very Happy New Year
