Archive for March, 2014

June 03, 2015 Marshside

Sometimes Garganey hide in the grassy parts of the marsh, and sometimes they tear around chasing Godwits. Today was a bit of both for the drake in front of Nel’s hide.

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June 17, 2015 Evening at Marshside

An evening in Nel’s hide spent squinting at tiny birds at the edge of my scope’s usable range was much more pleasant than I just made it sound.

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June 18, 2015 Ainsdale Dunes

I headed out hoping to see some butterflies and dragonflies, but due to the wind, mostly failed to see much of anything.

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June 19, 2015 Filling in old data

I’ve been trying to fill in some old data from my iPod Touch.

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June 23, 2015 Penwortham and Ribble Estuary

A day where the primary objective was dragonflies turned out to be just as good for birds.

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June 25, 2015 Bullfinches in the garden

A pair of bullfinches dropped in this afternoon to partake in the sunflower hearts party. First I’ve seen here; it’s a shame there were no chaffinches around but we still had three finch species on the feeder at the same time.

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June 25, 2015 Support for multiple locations in a post

Until now I have only been able to add a single location and a single list of birds to each post. This means that on a day where I visit multiple locations, I have two choices:

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June 29, 2015 Good day for dragonflies and their predators.

Today I visited Slack 47 on Ainsdale dunes, Lunt Meadows and Alt Bridge, famed Odonata locations all, but there were some birds as well.

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June 30, 2015 Garden damselflies

Quick report on June Odonata. No dragonflies spotted yet, but both blue-tailed and azure damsels are present.

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