Nature Diary

Stoat in stone wall by bench in garden.
Blue tits, house sparrows, robins, wren, pheasants, kestrel, blackbird and moorhen.

Thank you to the Close family for noting these sightings in the nature diary.

Wildlife sightings

Saw a hare, kestrel, crows, robin and a wren whilst staying at the cottage. Also, mother duck and a dozen chicks. Robin, blue tits, wren, nuthatch and hares in field. Cat on the step!

Thank you to Jim and Liz for noting these in the nature diary.

Wildlife viewings

All viewed from the cottage:-

House martins, blue tits, crow, house sparrows, robins, bats.

Thank you to the Fletcher Family from Staffordshire for making a note of these sightings.

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Seen from the cottage:-

Swifts x7 maximum together, swallows and housemartins, sparrows, pied wagtail, grey wagtail, blue tits, great tits, blackbird, mallards, magpies, crows, red-legged partridge & chick, hare and heard curlew calling.

Seen from the birdhide:-

Hares, red-legged partridge, oystercatchers, mallards, pigeons, many small moths.

Thank you Wendy & Mike Doyle for making a note of your sightings in the nature diary.

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We saw the following birds and wildlife whilst staying at Caldertop Cottage:-

Hares, red-legged partridge, wagtails, great tits, blue tits, house sparrows, swallows, pheasants (mum & chicks), ducks & ducklings, cows & calves, chickens, sheep, pigs, horses, seagulls, oystercatcher, blackbirds, crows, grey crows, mouse, stoat and a hedgehog.

Thank you to the Threlfall family for making a note of their sightings in the nature diary.

Chicks galore!

One of our hens appeared today with 13 chicks!

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Saw mother duck lead her new babies out of the garden, think they were nesting in the corner.

Wednesday - saw a hare crossing the road, as well as lots of other types of birds.

Lapwing

Beautiful sunset!

Curlews

The top of the field was covered with curlews tonight. 

Curlew nest

Tonight we found a curlew nest with 4 eggs in it whist looking the sheep.

Duck and her ducklings

Whilst walking round our sheep on the bottom meadow tonight we came across a duck and her ducklings.

Mayflower

The mayflowers are in full bloom along the lane.

Lapwings & chick

Spotted 3 lapwing chicks in the field as I was walking down the lane this afternoon. Only managed to get a photograph of one of them - the other two are hiding!

Hen & chicks

One of our hens has had 4 chicks. Here they are having a stroll around the garden.

Swallows return

Saw a swallow this morning - the first one this year - lovely to see and hear!

Wader Survey 2014

I carried out my first wader survey for 2014 today - obviously you already know about the great numbers of Lapwings on nests.

 

I also saw a Redshank and a Curlew on a nest plus a number of other Curlews displaying. I only saw 2 Oystercatchers.

 

Other birds seen were 3 Stock Dove, Linnets and Pied Wagtails.

 

There was also a lovely Peacock Butterfly on the footpath near your house.

 

Hopefully see you next month, Cheers Ian.

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Oystercatchers, sea gulls and starfish seen on Blackpool Beach.

Pheasants, robins, wrens, blackbirds, geese, goldfinches, wood pigeons, ducks and cormorants seen around the cottage and farm.

Thank you to the Peacock family for making a note of these sightings in the nature diary.