Your recent sightings at The Lodge
Your recent sightings
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Dartford warblers!
After a 16-year absence since the last record of this species on our reserve, an overwintering female on the Old Heath, we are delighted that we have not one , but two Dartford w arblers currently wintering on the si te. From a glance (whic...
Posted 08 Dec 2020 by Rebecca Shaw -
Crossbills
What's that sound? Have you heard pine cones dropping when walking around the Buzzard Trail? Look up and you might be able to see crossbills! The flock of up to 20 birds can be seen flying between conifer trees on the Buzzard Trail and have a...
Posted 11 Nov 2020 by Rebecca Shaw -
Galley Hill, The Lodge reserve - a magnet for birds of prey
Thanks to Rob Gilmour for this excellent image of a barn owl quartering the new heath on Tuesday 25 Feb 2020. Yesterday was a great day for birds of prey on the 'new heath' and Galley Hill. As well this beautiful barn owl, there were red kite,...
Posted 26 Feb 2020 by Peter Bradley -
Ravens at The Lodge, Jan 2020
Our regular Tuesday walking group took a stroll around the woodpecker trail on Tuesday 28 Jan and saw a pair of ravens, calling and displaying where the pylon line runs down the slope. What with this and the lesser spotted woodpecker sighting the...
Posted 29 Jan 2020 by Peter Bradley -
Its a three woodpecker day at The Lodge today... probably
There were several woodpeckers calling and drumming along the aptly-named woodpecker trail (formerly the Sandy Ridge trail) at The Lodge this morning Friday 17 January. Green woodpecker 'yaffling', wrens, robins and coal tits singing, great spotte...
Posted 17 Jan 2020 by Peter Bradley -
Sunny Friday lunchtime - 10 January 2010
The new feeders at the visitor information have been great for close views of nuthatches. Today's reserve list included: red kite, woodcock, fieldfare and mistle thrush around the wind turbine field, green woodpecker, goldfinches. Over the last fe...
Posted 10 Jan 2020 by Peter Bradley
