Today's Wildlife Encounter

[noel]

Yes Hes, Common Sandpiper on the Ribble at Halton West last evening.
You're too far North for Swallows yet .

I forgot to add, we saw one swallow last week on the Northumberland coast near Craster. It must have been a forward scout.

[GeoffB]

Wheatear at Herod Farm last night. Plus the usual Curlew, Skylark & Lapwing. ...and a beautiful sunset.

[IanDarkpeak]

ring ouzels have been spotted in the peak, not seen one yet but heard one at Burbage last week

[Splatcher]

Just back from 3 nights' camping on the Welsh coast just north of Tywyn (& running in the Ras y Moelwyn fell race). Our campsite was on the coast, & I did most of my birdwatching from my sleeping bag. It was sunny, but there was a biting wind. Diving gannets & sandwich terns (I think: at a distance, but the beaks looked black), stonechats all over the place, a kite overhead, & mergansers having it off on the water. Brilliant.

[Splatcher]

First reed warblers on the Weaver & the Trent & Mersey yesterday. And another wheatear passing through, & a common sandpiper too.

[BritNick]

Toad tadpoles are hatched in the works pond now. I know they're toads because of the single long chains of spawn that spawned them (sorry).

Also a lizard was spotted on Chicken Run last Saturday (though not by me unfortunately).

[Splatcher]

First ducklings on the Weaver, & my first orange-tip butterfly of the year too. And lapwings, another wheatear, a peregrine. I love walking the dog at this time of year!

[William Clough]

Proper chuffed this evening. Saw my second ever cuckoo. I ran round the Famous Grouse route and saw it in the wood near Phoside farm at the bottom of the last climb.

[Hes]

We've now got swifts, swallows, house and sand martins in Horton-in-Ribblesdale

[GeoffB]

I gave my sister and brother-in-law a Tawny Owl box a couple of years ago. A young, fluffy thing popped its head out of the box for the first time yesterday. Needless to say, they're quite excited!