A good week
Sunday, May 11th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »Here we are on Islay and after rain last Sunday we have had four fantastic sunny days with temperature up to 22c and no midgies yet! I spent some time filming a colony of Herons on Jura and with small young ...
A good week for filming
Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »A good weeks weather and a hectic time with two ascents of Pendle Hill inside fourteen hours! On one morning I was at the Trig station on top of Pendle at 6.00am and filmed the sunrise on the way up. ...
Dotterel on Time
Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »With the wind turning to SW it was time to check the top of Pendle Hill for Dotterel. Unfortunately someone beat me to it and announced on Birdline that there were two present. When we arrived on top of the ...
Woodcock 0 - Tawny Owl 2
Sunday, April 20th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »A cold week with strong easterly winds making this years nesting season one of the latest ever. Two full days in Bowland looking for Woodcock nests once again produced none, not even a flushed bird. However, all that time searching the ...
A Stop - Start Week
Sunday, April 13th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »Still snow on the hills even as late as the 12th April. This is having a marked effect on the breeding season with one pair of Long Tailed Tits only now lining their nest with feathers, having commenced building twenty ...
Long Tailed Tits and Health and Safety!
Sunday, April 6th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »At last after last weeks windy weather the 31st March dawned calm and sunny - perfect for filming Long Tailed Tits gathering feathers and taking them into their nests. To save time I provide the feathers for them. Now where ...