Another lovely day out on Thursday (26th June) wandering around Leighton Moss and Morcambe Bay rspb. After a very quiet 8.30am arrival things started to pick up after a couple of hours and we managed to see a lot of different species of birds, wildlife and insects, from Marsh Harriers and Red Deer, to Reed Buntings and Willow Warbler and a trip to Warton Crag nearby gave distant sightings of 2 Peregrine Falcons. There are far too may to put into a thread so I will add a few of what we saw and the rest can be found on my Flickr. page.
adorable juvenile Robin, one of many at Leighton Moss rspb.
Reed Bunting male
Reed Warbler
Wren (my grateful thanks to Aiki for the ID)
Red Deer
Marsh Harrier, female (the Black Headed Gulls and Lapwings were harassing her somewhat ! )
poor Marsh Harrier still being mobbed by the Black Headed Gulls
and overhead something else appeared in the sky ! ............
ZF289. Shorts Tucano T1 in fact there were two of them flying together but only one in the shot.
Meadow Brown ?
Chaffinch female
Willow Warbler
Avocet
Redshank
Black Headed Gulls juveniles
Blue Tailed Damselfly
Cormorants displaying to the Greylag Geese on the bank !
Meadow Sweet was in abundance everywhere
and finally, distant views of the Peregrines at Warton Crag who were in two separate areas on the Limestone hill face
had to crop the image hard to get this shot ....
Thanks for viewing this thread, more photos can be found HERE
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Regards, Hazel
Lovely shots, brings back some memories of a few months ago. That baby Robin looks very defiant!
Unicum arbustum haud alit duos erithacos
(One bush does not shelter two Robins)
Zenodotus (3rd Century B.C.)
Wow MC, you were quick to find this thread lol I was going to email you some pics !
I just posted a Kestrel thread.
Lovely stuff, great catch of the harrier in the air with mobbing gull and Lapwing. The baby Robin is indeed adorable, albeit with a certain attitude :) Butterfly is a Meadow Brown, and your Sedge Warbler's a Wren.
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aiki said: and your Sedge Warbler's a Wren.
and your Sedge Warbler's a Wren.
...with a BTO ring by the looks of it.
Thanks so much Aiki, and for the Wren ID !! can't believe I stuffed up on that one and even missed the ring (well spotted MC) will amend the title now :)
Not sure if this is a Green-Veined White ? just in case you are still there Aiki !
Yes, that's a Green-veined White :) On a rather nice orchid! but I'm not sure what kind.
Thank you Aiki ,much appreciated :) there are so many Orchid varieties that look similar its hard to find the correct name for it - looks like a Common Spotted but will leave that open for debate lol
Hi Bob, thank you so much, glad you found the photos as often the threads get lost down the list and this one almost went off the radar lol We had a great day after a really uneventful start where we thought we were going to see nothing, just goes to show, never give up !!
As predicted by Mystic Monkeycheese...