June 2006 Archives
It's oh so quiet...
Posted by on June 29, 2006 3:40 PM
Hot sunny afternoon, really quiet now with the summer lull kicking in with a vengence...
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Botanising and a bit of birding
Posted by on June 25, 2006 3:43 PM
Did the dunes north of Sands Lake today, primarily for orchids and helleborines, but there were a few birds about...
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Mothing again...
Posted by on June 25, 2006 3:25 PM
Cranked up the trap again for a few hours on Friday night (23.6.06), although it was cool, there was plenty of cloud and moths came in in numbers nearer midnight.
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More seawatchin'
Posted by on June 23, 2006 12:27 PM
Barry McCarthy (or "King Bazzo of the Dunes" as he shall hereafter be known) just texted me as he completed another morning seawatch at Formby Point - 3 Storm Petrels past today, but not much else.
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Late news from the city
Posted by on June 22, 2006 4:03 PM
Thanks to James Smith from Meols on Wirral who kindly sent me his BBRC rarity report for an adult Black Stork he saw - flying over Liverpool city centre on June 15th - a week after the one drifted over Marshside!
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Seawatch 21.6.06
Posted by on June 21, 2006 4:49 PM
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Seawatch alert: Raging hooley incoming
Posted by on June 20, 2006 6:25 AM
That's what I like to hear on the way in on what's left of the shipping forecast- "Deep Atlantic depression moving east, heavy showers".
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Marshside/Martin Mere
Posted by on June 18, 2006 3:38 PM
Despite the rain showers, it wasn't a bad morning today, bit grey maybe _ picked up Bazzo early and headed for the marsh...
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The return of Mothboy....
Posted by on June 17, 2006 9:38 PM
After a great session in the pub last night, the logical thing to do when I wobbled home to Ainsdale seemed to be to crank up the moth trap and stay up all night.....
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Derek W's seawatching 10-15.6.06
Posted by on June 15, 2006 1:33 PM
Derek Williams called to update me on a nice set of morning seawatches from Freshfield dunes this week - details follow.
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Bugs, blooms, even birds.....
Posted by on June 14, 2006 8:56 PM
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They're on your doorstep too....
Posted by on June 9, 2006 3:24 PM
Neill Hunt's shot of a Blue Tit in his Southport garden. Neill also has breeding Dunnocks and Blackbirds.
That's all folks! Catch you later....
Eyes to the skies, everyone eyes to the skies....
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More from Derek...seawatch 9.6.06
Posted by on June 9, 2006 3:22 PM
More from Derek - as if all the Mosses stuff wasn't enough, he managed to fit in a seawatch this morning from Freshfield, from 7.30am- 8.45am, and look what he got.....
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Ravens, butterflies etc
Posted by on June 9, 2006 8:50 AM
Latest from Derek William's diary on the mosses, with stuff from May 27 to June 3.
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Black Stork at Marshside
Posted by on June 8, 2006 1:24 PM
Graham Clarkson scores again - Black Stork flying north easterly over reserve this morning (well, at about 12.20pm), spooking everything before disappearing into the heat haze over Banks - but it seemed to be dropping down - you never know it could still be on the estuary somewhere....
First spotted by Danni, the new "Aren't birds brilliant" officer I understand.
Wow.
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Red Kite at Marshside
Posted by on June 7, 2006 4:34 PM
Bill Hale had a Red Kite over Marshside today - sorry no more details yet, but I imagine it was a fly-through - see what I mean about "eyes to the skies"??????
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Down in the dunes
Posted by on June 5, 2006 1:12 PM
John Bannon e-mailed me with some interesting Birkdale dune gen this morning...
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Mexican stand-off???
Posted by on June 4, 2006 7:29 PM
Mrs D and I bought one of them Mexican chimineas today (how suburban can you get???) and I cooked dinner on it, consequently I reckon I've probably got no more than 30 minutes before the delirium of botulism sets in , so let's BLOG fast....a hot day on the marsh.....
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Rattlin' n reelin'
Posted by on June 3, 2006 8:36 PM
Went for a great walk in the Birkdale dunes reserve earlier this evening....
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Still blowin', but the tide has gone out....
Posted by on June 2, 2006 5:49 AM
With the wind still gusting from the west it's a shame that the tides ain't so good now - the combination of time off work/high tides/right winds is a pretty rare occurrence in Dempseyworld these days.
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Summers day on the marsh
Posted by on June 1, 2006 4:20 PM
More pix from Neill Hunt, who got down to Marshside today- with six Little Gulls, 1st summer birds, on the Sandplant pools, 4 Garganey in the log, but only one on show, Little Ringed Plover in front of Sandgrounders hide and 2 summer plumage Curlew Sands again.
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This page contains an archive of all entries posted to BirdBlog in the June 2006. They are listed from oldest to newest.
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