Birds and other wildlife seen in my home area of East Lancashire and further afield. click on photos to view enlarged images (applies to most images.)
Put the time in during Spring and you should connect with an Osprey at Brockholes, but you can never be confident of connecting with one in autumn. So this bird, my 11th locally this year and dramatic as always, was both welcome and somewhat unexpected. The bird appeared as a heavy, prolonged spell of rain was setting in and to see one actually catch a fish onsite was an ambition realised.
posted by Bill Aspin at 2:06 pm
Finally caught up with the Little Egret, which has present on+off for the past few days. It spent an hour on the Main Pool early-mid pm having appeared to have flown in from the SW. When not onsite, and thats most of the time, I suspect its feeding somewhere downriver between Brockholes Bridge and Walton-le-Dale.
posted by Bill Aspin at 7:10 pm
Record shots of 1st summer Med Gull above and juvenile (right) below. Both unfortunately unringed.
posted by Bill Aspin at 5:58 pm
