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Ain't no place like home....

Posted by on May 2, 2007 8:36 PM | 

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Another scorchio day, but no proper birdin' for me - no Black Stork drifting over Leyland, or migrants mooching down the coast.
Still when all else fails, there's always the sycamore in next door's back garden - singing Chiffchaff and Blackcap in there this evening, as well as the usual residents like the Blackbird above.
I may curse this big old tree in autumn, when it sheds more leaves than a moulting rainforest, but in April and May it usually harbours a few warblers.

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At least five Swifts back around Dempsey Towers now.
Trops had a Lesser Whitethroat on Birkdale Dunes today, but it sounded pretty quiet otherwise, anyone else got out for any real birding?
Eyes to the skies everyone, eyes to the skies....

Comments (6)

Maurice Pons wrote...

Hi John, it may be of interest that yesterday I watched a 'steady trickle' of Red Admirals coming in off the sea at Crosby and 'battering' inland in a N.E. direction against a light E. breeze, they were also crossing the dock road and also in Walton.( I believe there were 'thousands' on Portland at the weekend)
Meanwhile male Common Blues were on the wing on Crosby dunes on 28 April.

Posted by: Maurice Pons  | May 3, 2007 6:05 AM

Paul Stowers wrote...

John,

Driving to work this morning through switch island Maghull the car in front of me served to avoid a carcass at the side of the road, as I approached I thought that looks big? it was a deer of some type! have you ever had any reports of deer in that area?

Posted by: Paul Stowers  | May 3, 2007 6:17 PM

Bazzo wrote...

Q: What's deader than the surface of the moon?
A: Passage at Marshside this morning - one male Whinchat only.
Thank God for Morocco.

Posted by: Bazzo  | May 3, 2007 9:14 PM

john wrote...

Hi Paul - had a few reports of Roe Deer around that side of Ince Blundell Woods in recent years, sounds like there may be one less now.

Posted by: john  | May 3, 2007 9:15 PM

Jack Taylor wrote...

John, left Maghull this morning on A59 going west to get on M58, as road rises up before M58 junc. roe deer at side of road looked pretty fresh casualty. We don't see many around here. pity it was dead, but may be few more about. Regards Jack

Posted by: Jack Taylor  | May 3, 2007 9:19 PM

Simon G wrote...

Got a couple of hours at the marsh this evening. Sandgrounders closed - it's having a porch added.
On Polly's Pool a pair of Little Stint, and 50+ pinkfeet dropped in for 20 mins or so.
A Whinchat on the South side of the sandplant, close by the usual Wheatear spot. The odd Whimbrel overhead. From Nels, Ruff in breeding plumage, displaying; a pair of Wood Sandpipers; a Curlew Sandpiper. All the usual suspects elsewhere: lots of Whitethroat, the odd Sedge Warbler. And Reed Warbler by Fairclough's Pool.
Lots of areas drying up now: notably the egret pools on the outer marsh NE of the former sandplant and lots of the areas in front of Nels.

Posted by: Simon G  | May 3, 2007 11:04 PM

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