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Saturday, 4th July 2015 12:00 - 15:30 hrs. Walk from Crook O'Lune picnic car park along south bank of River Lune to north of Caton village back to car park.

Little Egret
Common Sandpiper x 3
Sand Martins 200 plus - with constant flights to/from many nests on banks of River Lune
Grey Wagtails x 5
Pied Wagtail x 3
Oystercatcher
Swallows
House Martins
Siskin
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Chaffinch
House Sparrow
Greylag Geese x 20
Mallards x 50
Blackbird
Carrion Crow
Magpie
Wren (heard)
Chiffchaff (heard)
Robin
Dunnock
Pheasant (Male)
Mute Swan

Condor Green: Later in evening (about 18:00 hrs) after nice meal in Stork Pub:

Curlew x 2
Lapwing x 4
Mute Swan x 40

On way home:

M6 Junction 31 (southbound) and M61 Junction 6 (northbound): Buzzard overhead







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Not been feeling well last few days but going stir crazy at home so I decided to do birding by car

Conder Green

3 Spotted Redshanks
Greenshank
4 Little Grebes
19 Wigeon
120+ Golden Plovers
2 Snipe

Jeremy Lane

Little Egret
104 Mute Swans

Moss Lane

36 Mute Swans
87 Whooper Swans
13 Bewick's Swans
1850+ Pink-footed Geese

Overton

285 Black-tailed Godwits
228 Curlews
137 Common Gulls

Sunderland Point

28 Twite
Spotted Redshank
120 Wigeon
5 Red-breasted Mergansers
350+ Pink-footed Geese
Little Egret

Heysham north harbour wall

40 Twite
6 Goldfinch
Eider
Red-breasted Merganser
2 Mute Swans
98 Knot

Pilling

4000+ Pink-footed Geese (frustratingly in field close to road but nowhere to park to scan them)

Out Rawcliffe

2cy male Hen Harrier
2 Barn Owls
Short-eared Owl (had a tussle with a Barn Owl)
Sparrowhawk

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Aldcliffe Marsh

Lesser Yellowlegs
Wood Sandpiper
2 Little Egret
3 Common Snipe
Drake Red-breasted Merganser
3 Goldeneye
1 Pink-footed Goose
1 Greylag Goose
2 Little Grebe
c400 Golden Plover


River Lune

16 Waxwing
10 Goosander
5 Goldeneye
1 Little Grebe
3 Teal
No sign of Long-tailed Duck

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River lune

10 goosander
2 goldeneye
Long tailed duck

Aldcliffe marsh

Lesser yellowlegs
Wood sandpiper

Condor pool+creek

2 spotted redshank
3 snipe
Grey plover
Greenshank
Common sandpiper(must be a magnet for lazy sandpipers round here!)
1 lesser black backed gull plunge diving for a crab.forgot about it then realised it was still trying to eat it half an hour later!


Glasson marina

2 scaup

Nice to bump into Pete Welch at aldcliffe aswell.

-- Edited by chrisdorney on Sunday 18th of November 2012 09:09:00 PM

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Fem/imm Long-tailed Duck showing very well in Lancaster on the River Lune under the A6 Skerton Bridge at 1300hrs.

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c.30 Pink Footed Geese flying over Lancaster, heading SW at 9.15 this morning.

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Yesterday afternoon Caton (Bull Beck)

1st summer Med
5 Little Ringed Plovers
3 Common Sandpipers
39 Oystercatchers
54 Lapwings
50+ Sand Martins
50+ Black-headed Gulls

Tawny Owl calling at COLHP late afternoon

Aughton

55 Curlews
8 Common Gulls

Yesterday evening

15 Swifts over Schoolhouse Lane, Halton

Today

Conder Green this morning (coastal trail)

2 Med Gulls (adults)
3 Bar-tailed Godwits
3 Ravens

Conder Pool

61 Redshanks

Conder Creek

Greenshank
8 Redshanks
4 Common Sandpipers

Glasson

243 Bar-tailed Godwits


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Halton yesterday evening - Forge Bank Weir

1 Dipper
1 Kingfisher
1 Common Sandpiper
1 Goosander
1 Grey Wagtail
2 Curlews
1 Tawny Owl (perched four feet up in a Sycamore and being scolded by the resident Robin)
70+ Swifts

Heysham North Harbour Wall this morning

1 Redshank on wooden jetty - nothing else worth reporting!

Broadway

40 Eiders
2 Red-breasted Mergansers
60 Curlews

Teal Bay

48 Bar-tailed Godwits
62 Curlews
135 Knot
9 Eiders

Caton Bull Beck this morning

9 Common Sandpipers
7 Goosanders
3 Little Ringed Plovers
1 Garden Warbler
2 Blackcaps
4 Coal Tits

Caton COL HP this afternoon

Kestrel and Buzzard having a tiff
4 Mistle Thrushes (2 juveniles)
27 House Martins
2 Great Spotted Woodpeckers (one juvenile)

Tower Lodge - brief pit stop while driving past

2 Spotted Flycatchers
2 Nuthatches
1 Grey Wagtail

Also had a male Redstart in a hawthorn hedge off a minor road in Abbeystead

-- Edited by Mike Baron on Sunday 26th of June 2011 09:57:33 PM

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Jubilee Tower

3 Red Grouse
Wheatear (perched on my car!)

Abbeystead

Wheatear
Raven
Buzzard
3 Redstarts
1 Pied Flycatcher (singing male and not one of usual pair)
1 Garden Warbler (seen very well but not singing)
Raven
Buzzard

Leighton Moss late afternoon

12 Swifts
4 Marsh Harriers (female spooked everything off the water at Griesdale Hide and no sign of Garganeys)
3 Marsh Tits

Morecambe / Allen

330+ Blackwits
38 Redshanks
5 Knot
12 Avocets
3 Lesser Whitethroats (2 having a tiff)

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Halton yesterday by river:

Dipper (two this morning with nesting material)
Grey Wagtail 2
Buzzard 2
Jay 2
Goosander 2
Brambling - at least 1 with mixed finch flock but unable to view rest of flock
Nuthatch
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Goldeneye (today)

Caton today

8+ Siskins on feeders at COL HP plus Nuthatch and Treecreeper
14 Greenfinches, 7 Goldfinches
Tawny Owl

Bull Beck this morning

23 Oystercatchers
22 Lapwings
1 Redshank
10 Teal
39 Curlews
330+ Common Gulls

Melling this morning

23 Whooper Swans
59 Mute Swans
43 Greylags
23 Canadas
3 Golden Plovers

Heysham early this morning

30 Twite (6 unringed)
1 Linnet plus other unidentified finches on mound
53+ Eider
3 Goldeneyes

Morecambe this afternoon

Adult Med Gull off Broadway
14 Eiders
20 Goldeneyes
2 Red-breasted Mergansers


-- Edited by Mike Baron on Sunday 13th of March 2011 09:42:23 PM

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From the weekend

1600+ Black-headed Gulls and 140 Common Gulls in field at Hornby Sat afternoon. Spooked by a large Peregrine and put on spectacular displays with Starling-like close flocking

20 Whooper Swans with 19 Mute Swans, 2 Buzzards and 2 Ravens at nearby Melling

River Lune at Halton - 2 Goldeneyes and 3 Goosanders plus 2 Goldcrests with tit flock and Sparrowhawk over

Crook O'Lune, Caton

2 Buzzards, 2 Tawny Owls, Goosander, GSW, Nuthatch, Treecreeper (on peanut feeder!) and 5 Siskins (also on feeders), 58 Greenfinches (roost)

Thrushgill

2 Crossbills, 2 Siskins, 3 Lesser Redpolls plus cold and wet!!!

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