Record Mistle Thrush Numbers
Saturday, August 28th, 2010 Posted in General | No Comments »More time has been spent this week looking for Hobbies but all to no avail.I have now given up all hope of including one in this years Pennine DVD so we will have to settle for fourteen species of ...
Only A Merlin
Saturday, August 21st, 2010 Posted in General | No Comments »On three good days this week I spent time in the Goyt Valley and on the Staffordshire moorlands looking for Hobbies. Only a female Merlin was seen , which in itself is always a good bird sighting but not what ...
Almost There
Sunday, August 15th, 2010 Posted in General | No Comments »With only its ear tufts to grow this young Long Eared Owl looks very much like an adult. By now it is well able to catch prey for itself and will soon be driven away from the nesting area and ...
Record Breeding Season
Saturday, August 7th, 2010 Posted in General | No Comments »Here is a photo of the young Greater Spotted Woodpecker that visits our garden on its own, now that it has been abandoned by the adults.During the week the Collared Dove record has gone up to twenty feeding together. What ...
Four Into One
Sunday, August 1st, 2010 Posted in General | No Comments »This week I have had several sessions on the local Sand Martins and todays photo shows four young crammed into the entrance of their nesting hole. They have had an incredible breeding season with twenty five/thirty pairs fledging two broods ...