Heard the Cuckoo whilst mountain biking around Healey Nab too.

It still makes me smile when we free-wheel past Grasshopper Warblers and they "talk" back to the clicking of the wheel mechanism lol!!

Fantastic, if not cool weather for yesterdays foray into the Bowland. Female Marsh Harrier quartering the fell with a pair of Merlin mobbing it for several minutes. Strange that we didn't see any Hen Harriers! Nesting species found; Buzzard, Canada Goose & Meadow Pipit (4 eggs). At the end of th...

Dave,

Can you let us know the info the the Nat Hist guys send back

I found a skeleton of a smallish bird on the fells that turned out to be a 13 year old Snipe ringed in Wales!

Paul

Had a trip aroung Leighton this morning...... had fantastic views of an Osprey sitting in the top-most branches of a dead tree, then superb views of it hunting and diving! Other highlights were; 2 juv Marsh Harriers, male & female Marsh Harrier, Little Egret, Bearded Tit, Buzzards, Sparrowhawk, ...

We were out mountain biking over Great Hill on Sunday and as one the the crew was freewheeling (his rear cassette has a loud clicking noise) a Grasshopper Warbler started reeling in unison! :-) This happened three times within 150 yards. This has occured before on previous rides were the ticking/cli...

Just back from a superb week on the Isle of Mull. The weather wasn't brilliant ... but hey... they are outta water! So the rain that did appear during the week was a welcome bonus for the residents!!! I had FOUR target species for the week; Otter, WT & Golden Eagle and ADDER :-) The weather wasn...

Whilst out MTB tonight around Grindleton Fell we came across a SE Owl and a Buzzard in combat over the fellside.
Kestrel and Sparrowhawk were hunting too.
There were the usual common upland species as well

A jaunt (on foot lol) around the fells above White Coppice & its environs produced: Green & GS Woodpecker, Buzzard pr, Sparrowhawk pr, Kestrel pr, Raven family, Spotted Flycatcher pr feeding young at the nest and the usual moorland species. A large part of the moorland souht of Great Hill ha...

Whilst out walking (yes walking!) in the Bowland, we had decided to try and track down any Adders that were taking advantage of the early summer sun. Within a hundred yards of leaving the car, we saw a female about 20-24" long. Didnt expect one that quick so I only managed to shoot off a bit of...

Chris,

Nice one, its hard work trying to ID wildlife AND watch the track ahead lol!

Mind you, we do see allsorts of things when MTB at night between Sept & April..... lots of owl activity especially

Just about to post yesterdays sightings.

Paul

Whilst out MTB (mountain biking) last night, we came across all sorts of common upland birds including; Grasshopper Warbler reeling at Drinkwaters and a Tree Pipit displaying at Healey Nab.

Hope you dont ride it back from the pub! lol

Anyway.... you'll be able to ride it quicker and go to pubs and chippies further afield haha!

I noticed the views have gone through the roof lol! Yeah, our team (Team Adrenaline) were out on the fells last night for our usual Weds night ride. If any of the CDNHS fancy loosing a pound or two or getting a little fitter you're more than welcome to come along (www.teamadrenaline.co.uk) Those hil...

I've seen SEO several times around Darwen Moor whilst mountain biking AND walking ;-) I've also seen them south of Turton Moor where they nested last year. The one I saw last night, after wiping the perspiration from my eye's after a gruelling 17 mile X country MTB run, was on Darwen Moor, SD678208 ...

Whilst out mountain biking tonight around Darwen Moor and then on to Turton Moor, we spotted a Short Eared Owl hunting.
Even one of our group, Psye (Simon) was impressed!

Look forward to getting out and about later in the week