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Blog post:
Bowness-on-Solway Visitor facilities, Part Four - The Cardurnock Peninsula
John & Judith Rogers
Campfield Marsh is quite a spectacle in May with its covering of Sea Pinks - not to mention the Gorse and May blossom along the fringes. Back to farm and estuary - we continue along the coastal road round the Cardurnock Peninsula. Within a few hundred yards of North Plain farm we arrive at the lay...
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5 May 2013
Blog post:
Bowness-on-Solway area,Visitor facilities Part Three - Reserves and viewing places.
John & Judith Rogers
Campfield Marsh. Now we come to the 3rd part of the Blog, having dealt with accommodation issues. We can start to describe the main features of the area which is after all what you will be coming to enjoy, be it Spring, Summer or Winter. In the case of birders, winter in the Solway area is of particular...
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1 May 2013
Blog post:
Our Special Spring Visitors - 20 4 13
John & Judith Rogers
Black-tailed Godwit. After lunch, Judith said to me,”I'll have to get into the garden. These last two days of sunshine and rain have brought everything on. “OK,” I said, “I need a walk. I'll go down the Lonning and see what's there.” Unusually there was very...
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21 Apr 2013
Blog post:
6th - 15th April 2013. An illustrated diary.
John & Judith Rogers
Campfield Marsh - early April. 6th April 2013 Sunny all day with a light SW wind. Early morning there were 14 Shelduck with two Mallard pairs out on the mudflats. A small group of Redshank came in with the tide. On the Meadow Pools, Wigeon and Teal were gathering and seemingly pairing up. The two...
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16 Apr 2013
Blog post:
An absolutely excellent Solway Spring morning - 3rd April 2013
John & Judith Rogers
Pinkfeet against distant snow-clad Skiddaw. Wall to wall sunshine from dawn, with fluffy Constable-style clouds – completely windless. What a day! We had to go to Kirkbride so set off along the saltmarsh and within a couple of minutes ran into two Little Egrets near Biglands lay-by. They...
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4 Apr 2013
Blog post:
Learn to love your Badgers! - (Blog reinstalled after Homepage update glitch)
John & Judith Rogers
Badger routings in the orchard - 24 3 13 Our house, garden and orchard lie slap in the middle of the Campfield Marsh Reserve and we take great joy in all the birds and animals that flow across us in their various pursuits. We gaze out across the meadows and moss at the back, and the saltmarsh and...
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30 Mar 2013
Blog post:
A selection of birds on the Reserve around the Solstice.
John & Judith Rogers
Across the Meadow Pools towards the snow clad Lakeland Fells - 20 3 13 10th March. Small flocks of Curlew are regularly appearing on the tideline. Watched this Kestrel hunting along the wetlands in front of the hide. It kept dropping down amongst the rushes but rapidly re-emerged...
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23 Mar 2013
Blog post:
Campfield Blizzard - 22 3 13
John & Judith Rogers
Barnacles beating against the blizzard early morning, here at Campfield. Unusually, we are getting our fair share of winter. Snow has been blizzarding since early this morning and has continued unabated as we write at 3.45 pm. Wind chill factor feels like the Arctic. Even Sellafield, just round...
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22 Mar 2013
Blog post:
“When of't upon my couch I lie . . . ”
John & Judith Rogers
Today, I was in pensive mood after yesterday's events. It was a day for garden birds. Yesterday, I'd speculated about the identity of parties of small birds moving along the saltmarsh. But, whilst into my third cup of coffee, I had a minor triumph: a small party came swanning down the saltmarsh...
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19 Mar 2013
Photo:
Always the opportunist - 6 1 13
John & Judith Rogers
Robin on Campfield Lonning.
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19 Jan 2013
Photo:
Antler moth Aug 2012
Millomdragonfly
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11 Aug 2012
Photo:
Azure Damselfly June 2012
Millomdragonfly
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5 Jun 2012
Photo:
Azure Damselfly June 2012
Millomdragonfly
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5 Jun 2012
Photo:
Barnacle flock, 14th February 2012
John & Judith Rogers
Estimated about 200 geese in the flock
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8 Mar 2012
Photo:
Barnacles in flight, North Plain Farm, 24th February 2011
John & Judith Rogers
These two became restless due the the activity of nearby Merlin and Hen Harrier and took off for a fly around. They were part of the mixed flock of Pinkfeet and Barnacles grazing on the wetland pastures at North Plain Farm.
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12 Mar 2011
Forum post:
Re: Otters at Campfield.
John & Judith Rogers
Hi Steve, Nice sighting, that one! You’ve been really lucky. We have never actually seen one on the Farm, in all the time it has been a Reserve - although I don’t know if Norman(RSPB Cumbria Coastal Reserves Manager) or Dave(RSPB Campfield Marsh Reserve Manager) have ever seen any? ...
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8 Feb 2011
Photo:
Barnacles flighting at dusk over Meadow Pools, Campfield Marsh Reserve
John & Judith Rogers
A digital oil-style painting of Barnacles coming in at dusk over the Meadow Pools, with Skiddaw in the distance - by John Rogers
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23 Jan 2011
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April Solway - gorse and showers, Campfield Marsh. Painting by John Rogers 30th April, 2010
John & Judith Rogers
Art sketch showing the Solway as it is today. Get yourselves up here. Its quiet, the air is clean, its a haven for tired overworked people. You know you have always wanted to start birdwatching. Its really easy. Stacks of good books on the subject. You can either dabble or you can give meaning to the...
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30 Apr 2010
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A painting of the Solway Estuary by John Rogers
John & Judith Rogers
This view is from Campfield Marsh Reserve looking north across the Solway towards Criffel
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8 Apr 2010
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