Some selected sightings which kept me buzzing - and my passion growing - during the first half of 2013....most found/my own records but (*) I went to see.
January.
9. 8 Waxwing Conder Green.
15. Snow Bunting Cockersands
16. c. 20 Siskin Bailrigg.
18. 2 Stonechat Freemans Pools perimeter fence. (An excellent winter record).
6. c.700 Bar-tailed Godwit Lune Estuary Glasson Dock (LEGD).
6. Smew 'redhead' Freemans Pools *
7. Chiffchaff Fluke Hall.
13. Spoonbill LEGD *
13. c.600 Black-tailed Godwit LEGD.
17. 2 Stonechat Rossall Point.
18. c.80 Goldeneye LEGD (Peak Count).
8. 3 Lesser Redpoll Stodday.
19. c.850 Black-tailed Godwit LEGD (unprecedented count here).
19. Avocet Cocker Channel.
26. 2 Pintail LEGD (rare here).
26. Stonechat (female) Cockersands.
28. Stonechat (male) Cockersands.
28. 2 Wheatear Cockersands (my first of the year).
2. 2 Little Ringed Plover Conder Pool.
May.
April.
2. 2 Little Ringed Plover Conder Pool.
3. Jack Snipe Conder Pool *
8. 6 Siskin (our garden).
12. Water Pipit Conder Green *
16. Dotterel Cockersands.
Dotterel David Cookson
May.
29. Scaup Conder Pool.
June.
5. 2 - possibly 3 - Cuckoo Tower Lodge area.
7. 2 Cuckoo Cross of Greet.
7. 4 Whinchat Bloe Greet.
17. 5 Little Ringed Plover River Lune Bull Beck.
19. Osprey Public Hide Leighton Moss (almost certainly a Foulshaw Moss breeder).
Hang on in there Pete :-) Looks like some slightly less stormier weather on the way.
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Hi Pete.. How are you!!!.. Beautiful election.. Congrats...
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