Your recent sightings at Blacktoft Sands
Your recent sightings
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Here comes winter.......
It was a lovely chilly minus three this morning on the thermometer as I waited for the car windows to defrost. I know many people don't like the cold but it really is just what the countryside needed to help balance itself out. When I arrived on t...
Posted 18 Jan 2019 by Pete Short -
A False Spring?
At last this morning there was a bit of mid-winter sunshine to warm the heart and with it a few signs of spring across the reserve's lagoons with mallards chasing each other and greylags pairing up and looking for potential nest sites. Townend...
Posted 15 Jan 2019 by Pete Short -
The bar is now set for 2019! Great-white egret
Well its been a bit of a funny old start to January but today it was great to hear from our regulars Tim and Si Jump that they had the locally wintering great-white egret drop into Xerox lagoon for ten minutes. Maybe not the rarity they once were...
Posted 08 Jan 2019 by Pete Short -
A festive seasonal summary
Well happy new year to everyone and lets hope 2019 is a good a year as the last here on the Sands , I decided to have a bit of a blogging rest over the Christmas period and instead get myself out into the country air and go and find some nice...
Posted 03 Jan 2019 by Pete Short -
Christmas eve excitement
What could be better than an early Christmas present in the form of some fantastic birds and wildlife which is exactly what I got this morning when I peered through the gloom at what I thought was a cormorant diving for fish on Xerox lagoon. As y...
Posted 24 Dec 2018 by Pete Short -
The Shortest Day - Winter Solstice and moon corona
Today being the Winter Solstice often seems like a watershed in the natural calendar when over the coming weeks we again have just that little bit more light and time to enjoy the wildlife . Today it was certainly a dark start especially as the...
Posted 21 Dec 2018 by Pete Short
Grid Reference: SE8423 (+2km)
- Marsh Harrier (2)
- 15 Jan 2019
- Tree Sparrow (7)
- 15 Jan 2019
- Water Rail (0)
- 12 Jan 2019
- Ruff (1)
- 09 Jan 2019
- Pink-footed Goose (0)
- 06 Jan 2019
- Barn Owl (0)
- 06 Jan 2019
- Merlin (0)
- 06 Jan 2019
- Cetti's Warbler (0)
- 06 Jan 2019
- Water Pipit (0)
- 06 Jan 2019
- Shelduck (19)
- 15 Jan 2019
