Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birds, garden, loxley valley, mammals, photography on June 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
As promised, some more pictures from the FZ18. It’s amazing how well it works on ridiculously high zooms, even handheld, albeit with a loss in quality.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birds, deer, derbyshire, fox hagg, mammals, moscar, redmires reservoir, sheffield, stanage edge, wyming brook on June 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today I took a day off work and caught the bus out to Lodge Moor, walked up to Redmires, up Stanege Edge to Moscar, down to Wyming Brook, Fox Hagg and then caught the bus home!
Things started out well at Redmires, with a grasshopper warbler reeling away. Although I didn’t get a glimpse, it still [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged badgers, birds, loxley common, loxley valley, mammals, my patch, rants, sheffield, surveys, wadsley common on May 19, 2008 | No Comments »
On Saturday I went for a walk around the tetrad I’m surveying for the Sheffield Bird Study Group (tetrad SK28Z). It was a bit of a dingy day, and there wasn’t too much about, but still managed to see a couple of highlights. Including:
A reed bunting on Rowell Lane, just outside the tetrad. The first I’ve [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bats, birds, loxley valley, mammals, my patch on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
A couple more interesting things I saw last night - I walked up the river on my way home from work yesterday afternoon, and got good views of a dipper on the stretch of river behind Loxley Park residential home. It’s the first time I’ve seen one that far down the valley (although I must [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birds, loxley valley, mammals, my patch, sheffield on April 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Spring seems to have finally arrived! And it’s brought with it…
5 x willow warbler singing near fisheries and on paths behind former Hepworth site.
10 x swallow, at Old Wheel Dam and Hepworth site.
Other highlights included a little owl at the same spot at Old Wheel Farm, and several chiffchaffs, treecreepers, jays, long-tailed tits, goldcrests and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged badgers, birds, mammals, my patch, sheffield on March 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I saw my first badger in ages last night - I got back from the pub around 11.15, and saw one ambling around the front of the house and scaring the bejesus out of a cat that was out for the night. It’s good to see they’re still around.
Three singing chiffchaffs on Loxley Road on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birds, damflask, mammals, sheffield, wyming brook on February 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Today I decided to give my patch a break, and caught a bus to Damflask with the aim of walking a meandering route from there to Wyming Brook. I had two birding aims for myself today - to see green woodpecker, grey partridge and dipper (I’ll tell you from the start - I saw none [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged badgers, garden, mammals, sheffield on January 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Readers of my old version of this blog will remember I got very excited last summer by a visiting badger to my garden. I caught a glimpse of it one night as I was turning off the downstairs lights, and we had great views of it almost every night for a good few weeks. We left it some peanuts [...]
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