Showing posts with label Carsington Water. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carsington Water. Show all posts
Saturday, 12 September 2026

Another Derbyshire Tick - Pectoral Sandpiper x 2!

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 News broke of not one, but two, juvenile Pectoral Sandpipers (196) at Carsington Water, Derbyshire, yesterday. Amazingly, I haven't se...
Sunday, 23 February 2025

Year List Update and a Lifer (nearly!)

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 I last updated the Year List at the end of January, and, since then, I've added 6 new species, including a "near lifer"! Firs...
Wednesday, 16 August 2023

Rufford Gulls - 15th August 2023

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 I had my first August visit to Rufford yesterday, to check on the gulls. After my last visit, at the end of July, gull numbers had picked u...
Saturday, 16 October 2021

Derbyshire Snow Bunting - 9th October 2021

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 Last Saturday, Jayne and I popped across to Carsington Water to see if we could see the Snow Bunting that had been reported. We found it, ...
Wednesday, 1 January 2020

Year List 2020 begins

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Hello, and welcome to the first blog post of 2020. This year's birding began at about 7am, when I was woken up by a singing Robin . foll...
Sunday, 21 January 2018

Year List Update - 21st January 2018

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It's been a while since I updated the Year List, and it's moved on quite a bit, so here goes. Numbers 47 to 50 were seen at Derbyshi...
Thursday, 20 April 2017

Three New Birds

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I was up at Carsington Water for a couple of hours on Tuesday evening (18th) walking around Stones Island. I was on my annual "wagtail...
Wednesday, 6 April 2016

Carsington- 4th April 2016

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After my walk around Linacre on Monday, I decided to pop across to Carsington Water to see what was about. I had a walk around Stones Isla...
Monday, 28 December 2015

Carsington Water Year Tick

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I was out at Carsington Water yesterday with Jayne, with the hope of adding another species to the "year list". As you can probab...
Wednesday, 8 April 2015

Dovedale Walk and Carsington Water

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Yesterday I went for a walk along Dovedale with my family and a good friend. We walked around the river from the car park at Dovedale to Mi...
Saturday, 26 April 2014

Yellow Wagtails at Carsington

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This time last year I went up to Carsington Water to see some passage Yellow Wagtails. I've been checking Birdguides all week, and spott...
Monday, 24 February 2014

Year List update

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Just a quick post tonight to update the Year List with a Great Northern Diver that I saw yesterday at Carsington Water . Despite very chopp...
Saturday, 20 April 2013

Yellow and White Wagtails at Carsington

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Every year at this time there is a passage of Yellow and White Wagtails at Carsington Water . I popped across there this afternoon/evening...
Friday, 4 January 2013

Carsington Water - January 2013

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Following on from yesterday's excursion I spent a few hours out at Carsington Water today. The weather wasn't great, but I had a sh...
Sunday, 30 January 2011

Cromford and Carsington Water - 30th January 2011

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Welcome to my last blog of the month. Today saw the family head up to the Severn Trent reservoir of Carsington Water , via Cromford Wharf, f...