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- Mon Aug 01, 2022 8:47 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Rowan trees
- Replies: 1
- Views: 183
Rowan trees
The blackbirds ( there are several nests nearby) totally cleared a small rowan tree of berries in my front garden last week. They are just starting, but only just, on what I believe is an identical rowan tree variety and what looks, to my eye, to be of exactly the same degree of ripeness about 10m a...
- Sun May 08, 2022 6:34 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: cuckoo
- Replies: 0
- Views: 156
cuckoo
Cuckoo cuckooing away at 5.30 am this morning in south Euxton but not heard when I woke again at 7.00 or since
- Sat Jan 01, 2022 9:38 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Hedgehog
- Replies: 1
- Views: 196
Hedgehog
I have just disturbed a hedgehog feeding on scraps under the bird table. By the time I got back out with some cat food it had gone. Still, if it gets back again before the magpies tomorrow morning, it can have a good meal before going back to bed.
- Fri Nov 12, 2021 4:41 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Kingfisher pair
- Replies: 0
- Views: 172
Kingfisher pair
A pair of kingfishers this morning on the River Lostock just below the bridge on Ridley Lane. Although I walk round here fairly regularly I've never seen a single kingfisher here before, so a pair was a big bonus.
- Fri Apr 30, 2021 7:37 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Garden Siskins - Euxton
- Replies: 1
- Views: 272
Re: Garden Siskins - Euxton
Ian, You can't be far from us. We are in South Euxton and have just been watching a beautiful male siskin feeding for about fifteen minutes in our garden, until it was chased off by a squirrel. In the evening sunshine it looked so much brighter and more colourful than the pictures in the books. We h...
- Thu Apr 15, 2021 4:58 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Euxton Mandarins
- Replies: 0
- Views: 272
Euxton Mandarins
Pair of mandarin ducks on the large loop in the Yarrow near Shaw Green, Euxton this morning.
- Mon Jun 29, 2020 6:11 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: more juveniles
- Replies: 0
- Views: 298
more juveniles
Loads of young birds in the garden. Also up to six squirrels making at least one daily visit and a rather scrawny looking young fox the last few late evenings, my wife insists that it needs feeding up on cat food. Highlight this morning was a family of 5 jays (one adult) clustered round the base of ...
- Tue May 26, 2020 8:22 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Garden birds.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 612
Re: Garden birds.
We have nuthatches every year nesting in the same hole in a dead oak tree. For the past week or so the birds have been busy backwards and forwards to the nest but, all of a sudden they are gone. This happens every year. I don't think they have come to any harm (although a woodpecker was having a loo...
- Sat Apr 18, 2020 10:38 am
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: A non sighting
- Replies: 4
- Views: 863
A non sighting
A couple of years ago I posted a "sighting" commenting on the lack of fish in the Yarrow. About 5/6 years ago the river was full of them . I knew several locations where I could more or less guarantee to see large (what I assumed to be) trout and plenty of small fish too. I recall taking t...
- Thu Mar 26, 2020 7:10 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: The unintended consequences of good intentions
- Replies: 0
- Views: 338
The unintended consequences of good intentions
The field next to my house in Euxton is about to be developed for housing (that’s another story). Beyond the opposite corner of the field from my house is a pond that has a small population of Great Crested Newts in it. As part of the preparation works an exercise is ongoing to trap and collect any ...
- Tue Oct 29, 2019 8:26 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Giant fungus in Duxbury
- Replies: 1
- Views: 582
Giant fungus in Duxbury
The attached photo shows a fungus on a dead beech stump in Duxbury gardens. It is about 40cm across and, although we are regular visitors we haven't noticed it before today, so I assume it is this years - it looks fresh enough. My wife is there not just to add glamour but also a sense of scale.
- Sat Oct 26, 2019 12:03 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: hedgehog
- Replies: 0
- Views: 520
hedgehog
A hedgehog is still in my garden every night and taking food. It's been there all summer and occasionally we have two but I haven't seen any offspring this year.
- Fri Sep 13, 2019 8:56 am
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: Blue Shieldbug with Friend.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1360
Re: Alder Leaf Beetles with Friend
A small alder in Astley park was full of these and in process of being stripped bare (by the beetles or by their larvae? - although I only saw the beetles) on 11th September.
- Sun Aug 11, 2019 2:36 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: my garden
- Replies: 1
- Views: 651
Re: my garden
Those who read my original of 31st July will have wondered what it was all about. When I look back I think the site didn't accept my photos for some reason but I think it will now. Perhaps my original will now make sense.
- Wed Jul 31, 2019 8:49 pm
- Forum: Recent Sightings
- Topic: my garden
- Replies: 1
- Views: 651
my garden
On the dead tree in my garden at the moment is this regular visitor (see photo1 or possibly 2). This exact same spot (see second picture or possibly first) is a lookout post for many birds and the tree is a nesting site for great tits and nuthatches and (once) for GS woodpecker. The garden has been ...