December 2006 Archives
Leighton Moss events calendar 2007
Posted by on December 30, 2006 3:46 PM
Thanks to Jen Walker who has e-mailed the following full calendar of events up in Silverdale for the coming year - don't ya just hate organised people?
Ahh, the season of peace and goodwill...
Posted by on December 24, 2006 2:52 PM

...shame no one told this GBB which caught and killed an adult female Mallard on Marshside Two today, before tearing it to shreds. You may well look guilty Mr Gull.
Supersexy l'il yellow and green stripey zippy thing
Posted by on December 22, 2006 3:57 PM

Thanks to Steve Young for this gorgeous shot of the Hightown Pallas's Warbler, which I finally nipped down to see this afternoon.
Celebrity death match: Sprawk v Pecker...
Posted by on December 21, 2006 9:15 PM

Okay, so my head's full of Pallass'ssssss, but here's a nice tale courtesy of Mo Pons...
(Thanks to Andy Bate for the greater 'pecker pic...)
Pallas's Warbler, Hightown
Posted by on December 20, 2006 4:42 PM
This is what comes of working too hard - there's a Pallas's Warbler in the dunes at Hightown (found yesterday) and present at dusk today - details on Birdline Ted, 09068 700 249. A very nice Christmas present if it sticks around....
Some you WON'T see from Formby Point
Posted by on December 7, 2006 7:09 PM

Thanks to Neill Hunt, who finally got this amazing gallery of pictures from his pelagic off Australia's Wombat Creek this autumn to me...
This baby has travelled!
Posted by on December 6, 2006 9:14 PM

Just got the ringing info back on this Icelandic Blackwit from Marshside I saw on 19.11.06...
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