Your recent sightings at Blacktoft Sands
Your recent sightings
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Quantity and quality! Little crake on Marshland
September is certainly turning out to be very memorable indeed with this morning the Doncaster RSPB group finding a crake on Marshland lagoon, when I heard I was certainly interested as I'd been videoing the spotted crake on Singleton lagoon...
Posted 17 Sep 2019 by Pete Short -
Hiding in Plain Sight
It’s been an exciting week here at “the Sands”. Earlier in the week we had the harrier triple (see Pete’s blog) of Montagu’s, Hen and Marsh – of course I missed the first two but, still, you’ve got to love the Marshies! Then a spotted crake appear...
Posted 15 Sep 2019 by xDarrenx -
Reserve just hooching with birds!
This morning the reserve right across all the lagoons was absolutely hooching with both number and quality of birds on high tide . Rather than write about everything here are just a few pictures from yesterday evening and this morning. Tide is abo...
Posted 13 Sep 2019 by Pete Short -
A triple harrier showdown! (Species that is)
Amazing!, You really need your wits about you on the reserve at the moment as there are now three species of harrier , marsh, Montagu's and now hen harrier ! There can't be too many places around the country that can give you the chance of all...
Posted 11 Sep 2019 by Pete Short -
Autumns coming early
Yes it is only early September but over the last few days both the weather and birds has really made it feel like Autumn has arrived early with pink-footed geese arriving in number, wigeon, pintail and shelduck moving west, teal numbers building u...
Posted 09 Sep 2019 by Pete Short -
Just in the nick of time! The lagoons get a drab of water
Its been a pretty full on last few days here on the Sands with some excellent birding as August passes into September, and right at the last the tides relented and allowed us to get a little bit of water onto some of the lagoons that will help us...
Posted 03 Sep 2019 by Pete Short
