Goldeneye 30 on Rydal Water
Goosander 10 mainly on Rydal Water but also 3 on Loughrigg Tarn
Kingfisher 2 Rydal Water
Raven 2
Buzzard 5
Siskin 30 around Loughrigg Tarn
Year 157 (Tawny Owl)
Looking over Elter Water towards Coniston Old Man.
Looking over Grasmere towards Helm Crag and Helvelyn from Loughrigg Terrace.
Looking towards Fairfield from the summit of Loughrigg.
Rydal Water.
Hi Colin , really excited as ive not bee doing any birdwatching for ages but went for a walk this afternoon up to Billinge Hill (I live nearby). It was very quiet , 4.30pm, and had just started raining.I was walking on te muddy track from the hill towards the midden pile (1/2 way between the hill and the golf course) and I saw a bird low down in the grassy small hillocks. Ive never seen either before but know for sure it was either a stonechat male or whinchat. Ive just been looking on the rspb birsite and going from their map distribution of both birds think it has to be a stonechat aswhinchat is given as sumer only. Like I said ive never seen either beforebut can u confirm that stonechats have been seen around here as .like I say.ive never seen one?
ReplyDeleteHi Andrew, yes it could well be a Stonechat. I've seen a few in St Helens. There numbers have fluctuated a bit, at one time they were quite rare, then they became uncommon, but these days they seem to have gone quite rare again. So yours is a good record. Very unlikely to be Whinchat, they are summer visitors and I wouldn't expect to see them until the beginning of May, though this has been a funny year with quite a few summer visitors over wintering.
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