Gorgeous gin-clear morning today, but another busy day of marram planting and Christmas tree wrangling at Formby Point meant no time for birding again...c'est la vie.
Few small roosts of waders along the tideline, and a semi-gull roost at Ainsdale, otherwise just picked up songsters starting up in the bright sun - Chaffinch, Dunnock, Coal Tit, Great Tit and Song Thrush all starting to belt out their tunes now.
Three Great Tits moving north along the coast yesterday may just have been movement, but a paltry handful of northerly-bound Mipits over the last few days were hardly enough to suggest their early spring passage is beginning in earnest yet.
Anyone else seeing anything out there?
Eyes to the skies everyone, eyes to the skies...
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A few Stock Doves near the old Greaves Hall demolished site. Such a subtly beautiful bird, makes me think how often they must be overlooked.
Hi John, Two 11 spot Ladybirds in a sheltered spot in the garden this afternoon.
Mike.
Dear John
This is a quick update to let you know that the book of The Biggest Twitch is progressing well.
WeâÂÂve passed on to the publishers a selection of around 80 colour photos from our big year to go into the book. These include shots of our favourite birds, some of the most dramatic scenery we encountered around the world, and a selection of the incredible people that we met during our travels. As you can imagine, it was very hard to choose such a small number of pictures to sum up our year, and weâÂÂre very glad weâÂÂre not the ones who have to make the final cut for the book!
WeâÂÂve also seen the proposed cover for our book too. An original design created by renowned wildlife artist, Robert Gillmor, it really is a wonderful eye-catching design that weâÂÂre sure will have our book just leaping off the shelves of bookshops everywhere. Famous for his iconic linocut designs, you may have seen Robert GillmorâÂÂs cover designs on other books such as the long-running New Naturalist series, and visitors to the British Birdwatching Fair may have encountered Robert in the Art Marquee. What a privilege to have such an incredible artist create a design for The Biggest Twitch!
Details of the publication date and price are in the hands of our publishers, and as soon as we have more information weâÂÂll let you know.
In the meantime, weâÂÂre enjoying some good birding in North Wales with such special visitors as three Surf Scoter just offshore a few miles down the road, and a BonaparteâÂÂs Gull not far away on the island of Anglesey . A Black Redstart reliably showing up for weeks on a building site at the end of our road has been a good visitor for Llandudno, and weâÂÂre glad to report the Great Grey Shrike has been seen at Clocaenog Forest in Denbighshire. The bitter weather of a few weeks ago saw an influx of Bitterns across the region, but with signs now that spring may really be just around the corner, weâÂÂve got our eyes peeled for the first seasonâÂÂs new arrivals.
Hope youâÂÂre enjoying the birding in your area,
Best wishes and good birding!
Alan and Ruth