Showing posts with label Pink-footed Goose. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pink-footed Goose. Show all posts
Friday, 20 February 2026

Wild Goose Chase!

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 Jayne and I drove across to RSPB Frampton Marsh on the search for a few year ticks. As the title of this post implies, it didn't quite...
Saturday, 4 November 2023

Scotland Trip - October 2023

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 Jayne and I have just returned from a family break in Pitlochry. Whilst there, we saw a few new birds and some lovely Red Squirrels. We vis...
Saturday, 12 November 2022

Pied Wheatear!!

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 A first winter male Pied Wheatear turned up in a skate park in Whitley Bay last week, so, after a week of umming and ahhing (!) Jayne and I...
Saturday, 24 September 2022

Linacre - 24th September 2022

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 A week after my last visit, I was back down at Linacre this morning for a walk around all three reservoirs. Overall, waterbirds numbers wer...
Saturday, 17 September 2022

House Martins, Chiffchaffs and Pink-footed Geese

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 When I set off to carry out this month's WeBS count at Linacre it felt like a " Pink-footed Goose morning". There had been ...
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, ...
Sunday, 18 October 2020

Linacre WeBS - 17th October 2020

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Yesterday I had a couple of hours at Linacre to carry out this month's WeBS walk. There had been a notable increase in duck numbers, an...
Sunday, 13 October 2019

Linacre Ringing - 12th October 2019

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After a couple of wet and windy weekends it was really nice to get out to Linacre again for a ringing session yesterday. I was there with 5 ...
Monday, 10 December 2018

Danish Black-headed Gull

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Yesterday, Luke and I were at Poolsbrook CP for a few hours. Whilst there, we managed to spot a metal ringed Black-headed Gull from Denmark ...
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Sunday, 21 October 2018

Linacre Ringing - 20th October 2018

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This month's ringing session at Linacre started at 6:45am, just before it got light, so that we could set the nets up and ready to try a...
Saturday, 2 June 2018

RSPB Old Moor

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Luke and I spent 4 hours at RSPB Old Moor on Thursday. It was warm with sunny spells and we walked all around the hides and ponds. The fir...
Sunday, 5 February 2017

Year List Update

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After walking around Linacre yesterday, I had an hour up at Shillito Woods. I put out some seed, and within a few minutes there were 13 Bram...
Saturday, 8 October 2016

Yellow-browed Warbler!!

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Unfortunately, this is not a Linacre report, but instead refers to 2 birds that I've seen today in Holkham Pines in Norfolk. This site i...
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...
Thursday, 31 December 2015

Year List 2015- the final figure!

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So it's just gone 7pm on New Year's Eve, so I think it's safe to say I won't be adding any new birds to the "year list...
Sunday, 27 September 2015

Another Siskin and 2 Blackcaps

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At the end of August I was down at Linacre ringing with Sorby Breck Ringing Group , when we caught a Siskin , the first one to be ringed at ...
Thursday, 27 August 2015

RSPB Frampton Marsh

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I had a drive over to Lincolnshire today to see if I could see a Red-footed Falcon at the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust's Willow Tree Fe...
Sunday, 30 November 2014

Avenue Ringing - Finches galore!

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The weather for the last few weekends has been grey, overcast and wet, so when we saw a half decent forecast for this morning we ( Sorby Bre...
Saturday, 1 November 2014

Norfolk Highlights

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It's been half term this week, so I spent a couple of days in Norfolk with Jayne. We were based in Wells-next-the Sea, and whilst there,...
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Saturday, 18 October 2014

Linacre WeBS - October 2014

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While I was ringing at Linacre last Saturday, Mandy from the Chesterfield RSPB Group was busy walking around the reservoirs carrying out th...