Sale Water Park - 31st March 2013

TRIP: SWP and Area
Date: 31/3/2013
Time: 4-6.15pm

Hawthorne Lane:

1 Goldfinch
3 Blackbird
2 Robin
Some Longtailed Tits nr Turn moss
Great Tits

A couple of unidentified birds, a larger brown walking down towards the Mersey, have to watch out for this one again.

Broad Eees Dole:

30+ Black Headed Gulls including 1 Lesser Black Backed Gull*
2 pairs of Teal
7 Canada Geese (more flew in later)
4 Moorhen
5 Coot
1 Grey Heron
2 Little Grebe
Mallards M+F

On the Lake:

2  Great Crested Grebe
1 Mute Swan
# Canada Geese
# Black Headed Gulls
3 Robin

Feeding Station nr Cafe/Visitors Centre:

4 Great Tit
1 Robin
1 Coal Tit*
5 Long Tail Tit
2 Blue Tit
2 Pied Wagtail
1 Nuthatch*

Around the area there were the usuals, Magpies, crows, wood pigeons.

*Some new ones for the list today:

Nuthatch, Coal Tit and Long Tail Tit and Lesser Black Backed Gull

Dunham Park - Sun 10th Feb 2013

Today we were hoping to spot some Great Spotted Woodpecker around the park, there had been some recent sightings of woodpeckers fighting for territory.

We didn't see any woodpecker and it was a miserable afternoon, wet and freezing however it was still worth while and we saw a couple of tree creepers, one near the car park and the other in the trees near the old Water Mill.

Here are todays recordings and photo's.

Time: 2pm to 4pm

New
 2x Treecreeper
 6x Tufted Duck
10+ x Fieldfare, numerous in teh trees nr the watermill.
1x Robin

Usuals
In the lake, Mallard, Moorhen, Coot, Mute Swan, Great Tit

Photos

Deer wandering around the park

Mallards and Tufted Ducks

Great Tit

Fieldfare in the trees

Singing away on it's perch

Example of a Tree Creeper, unfortunate on my photo you couldn't actually see it :o))

Pennington Flash 9/9/2012

TRIP: Pennington Flash
DATE: 9/9/2012
START: 13.15 FINISH: 18:15

A new location so we visited most of the hides, great place as it was a nice day it was very busy. Maybe next time we will visit midweek.

New!
Greenshank x1, From hide no.2 it walked down the left hand side of the island to just in front of the hide.
Greenfinch x 6 (Bunting Hide)
Willow Tit x1 (Bunting Hide: Red/White bands on left leg, Red/Grey on right)

Others
Kingfisher x1
Bullfinch x2 male and female
Chaffinch x1
Blue Tit x 4
Great Tit x 4
Little Grebe x2

Usual
Mallards x many
Lapwing c20
Canada Geese x4
Black Headed Gulls x many
Magpies c12
Coots c15
Grey heron x3 (1 actively fishing)
Mute Swan c26
Moorhen, 2 x parents and 5 x juveniles

Images:

Greenshank

Greenfinch

Willow Tit

Other Photos

Lapwing

Lapwing, Black Headed Gulls

Mute Swans

Grey Heron

Kingfisher

SWP 4/9/2012

TRIP: SWP - Borad Ees Dole
DATE: 4/9/2012

START: 18.00 FINISH 20.00

New
Black Headed Gull c35
House Sparrow x7

Others
Cormorant
Mute Swan
Mallards
Canada Geese

Pictures:

Cormorant

Canada Geese

Black Headed Gulls

Mute Swan

SWP 3/9/2012

TRIP: SWP (Nr Visitor Centre)
DATE: 3/9/2012
START: 18.00 FINISH 19.00

New

Goldfinch x1
Chaffinch x1
Black Headed Gull x1

Others

Blue Tit x2
Magpie x 5
Wood Pigeon x2
Great Tit x1

Trip Pictures;

Blue Tit & Chaffinch 

Goldfinch

Black Headed Gull

Brockholes 29/8/2012

We intended to visit Leighton Moss whilst on the camping trip however as we didn't stay as long as we had hoped we decided to return to Brockholes as it was on our way home.

Besides the usual crew of:

Coots
Canada Geese
Mute Swam + Cygnets
Lapwings
Cormorants
Great Crested Grebe

Of course the Mallard
Magpie
Wood Pigeon

2 more to add to my list though;

A single Kingfisher ( I was too slow to get a picture)
Great Tit - there were many darting in and out of the bushes as you walked down the lane to the family hide.

Aug Camping Trip

Ribble Valley
Dale Hey Touring Park
Web Site: http://www.daleheyfarm.co.uk/wordpress/

Review:
Just outside the village of Ribchester, which has a couple of pubs serving evening meals and a great sandwich shop open from 8am.
The site was great and very quiet (mid week trip), we had a choice of pitches either on the main field or for the more adventureous small alcoves off the trails.
Toilets and showers - fantastic, showers free and very hot and clean.
It was intended for us to stay a couple of days but with the weather and the air bed not staying pumped up we decided to go home via Brockholes.

A great site, a good trip could have been longer :o)

Bird Watching

We could hear lots of birds seeing them was a bit of an issue, we did see plenty of swallows darting around and a bird of prey which I managed to get a picture:

Kestrel (Common)



SWP 14/8

Went by SWP and Broad Ees Dole on a bike ride yesterday evening approx 7pm.

On BED there was a new one for me a Little Grebe x1, diving in front of the first Island. Around near the cafe on the platform a Yellow Wagtail x1 fly by, lots of others in the trees by the cafe but unfortunately no time to sit and watch - maybe next time.
Also on the Ees there was the usual birds, Heron, Coots, Lapwings, Moorhen and Canada Geese flying in.

Brockholes Reserve

Visit to Brockholes 12/8/2012

A floating visitors centre with restraunt, shops and loo's

There are several lakes this one is the one that the visitors centre overlooks....

The hide is on the opposite side and this was going to be today's spotting location.

On the way to the hide we managed to get a few shots of catapillars and butterflies. I'll have to do a bit of research to see what their names are;

BIRDS SPOTTED

Mallard (Many)

Canada Geese (Many)

Heron x3

Mute Swan and 6 Cygnets

Great Crested Grebe x2

Coots (Many)

Gulls - Black headed x3 Others (Gallacious?)

Wood Pigeon

Magpie

Gadwall (Many)

Buzzard (?)