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SWILLINGTON INGS BIRD GROUP 
16/4/24 x2 Roe Deer & x1 Brown Hare hillside at 6pm
Comment by Paul Scholes — April 17, 2024 @ 9:51 am |
metal footbridge ;lots of tadpoles and clouds of copepods @2mm with occasional 5mm ones a second species? Great Diving Beetle and several Water Boatman types.
Hare above Wheatear and antlered Roe Dear other side of fence. Caroline seating a large Weasel carrying a kit about half its size.
Comment by Julian — April 16, 2024 @ 8:32 pm |
Yesterday pm Dark-edged Bee Fly between Old Lock & Shan House Bridge.
Comment by J Keeble — April 13, 2024 @ 2:13 pm |
Dark-edged Bee fly between Old Lock & Shan House Bridge yesterday pm.
Comment by J Keeble — April 13, 2024 @ 8:58 am |
Dark-edged Bee-fly near Old Lock this pm.
Comment by J Keeble — April 12, 2024 @ 9:17 pm |
12/4/24 Stoat on Old Astley Lane.
Comment by Paul Scholes — April 12, 2024 @ 6:48 pm |
11/4/24. Lots of Orange Tip around today.
Orange Tip 18 (lots round Lowther-Oxbow, Hillside)
Peacock 8 (Hillside, Caroline B & Warren)
Comma 1 (Caroline B)
Brimstone 3 (Caroline B & Warren)
Small White 2 (Caroline B & Warren)
Small Tortoiseshell 1 (hillside)
Comment by Paul Scholes — April 11, 2024 @ 6:15 pm |
1 Stoat old Astley Lane.
6 Peacock, 1 Brimstone and 2 Orange tip (main causeway and WRB)
Comment by Joe Eckersley — April 5, 2024 @ 8:37 pm |
Two male Orange Tips Western Reedbed this am.
Comment by J Keeble — April 5, 2024 @ 3:25 pm |
A limping fox crossed Old Astley lane into Fleakingkey beck area this morning, it was also seen on the hillside on Wednesday 2nd April.
Stoat down Coach Rd and another seen by JE on Old Astley lane today.
Comment by Gyl. SwillyBirder — April 5, 2024 @ 2:17 pm |
2/4/24 x2 Brown Hare in Prison Gate field early evening.
Comment by Paul Scholes — April 2, 2024 @ 9:28 pm |
A dead Rabbit looked like it had been hunted, by the side of the Astley Lane kissing gate this morning. For collection later? Tied in with two youths seen with a shot Pheasant early afternoon. Headed off towards Swillington.
Comment by beckcottagebirder — April 2, 2024 @ 5:23 pm |
Brimstone Methley copse 10.40am
Comment by Gyl. SwillyBirder — March 30, 2024 @ 6:35 pm |
Recent butterfly records: Brimstone and Comma near Rabbit Warren on 19th March. Small Tortoiseshell 2 probably 3 Beck Cottage Little Preston 30th March.
Comment by beckcottagebirder — March 30, 2024 @ 5:17 pm |
Another late post, a small bat sp over garden Beck Cottage, Little Preston 23rd March.
A Dark-edged Bee-fly was on the 30wts actinic moth trap on the morning of 28th March.
Comment by beckcottagebirder — March 28, 2024 @ 10:29 am |
Peacock on 22/3 the first butterfly I’ve seen on site this year.
Comment by Brian Needham — March 23, 2024 @ 10:31 am |
Hedgehog, unfortunately two road casualties on Bullerthorpe Lane, one near Bridge Farm Hotel, one by the turn to Newsam Green Road.
Comment by sibgrecorder — March 21, 2024 @ 2:31 pm |
Toadspawn has appeared overnight 0.5m right of the frogspawn at the metal footbridge.
Peacock at Astley and Caroline seating.
Comment by Julian — March 19, 2024 @ 8:30 pm |
19/3/24 Weasal on crossroads path.
18/3/24 x1 Comma at Old Astley Lane.
Comment by Paul Scholes — March 19, 2024 @ 6:29 pm |
Joe had Toads come to the surface for air, I regularly had Newts, the Frogs never did! Apparently they can absorb oxygen through their skin better!
Comment by Julian — March 18, 2024 @ 9:47 pm |
Stoat with rabbit kill ran across Coach rd this morning into Swilly park.
Comment by Gyl. SwillyBirder — March 18, 2024 @ 8:10 pm |
A Noctule bat flew onto a branch at the Warren for about 20 mins before flying off the way it came.
1 Small tortoiseshell, 2 Peacock, 1 Comma, 4 smooth newts at the VC ponds (Julian had more earlier on), a large amount of frog spawn by the metal footbridge with up to 17 frogs and a couple toads in the channel.
Also 1 Roe deer and bank vole seen too.
Comment by Joe Eckersley — March 18, 2024 @ 7:56 pm |
10 with 3 in the linesway entrance pond. Peacock canal turn.
Comment by Julian — March 18, 2024 @ 8:31 pm |
small Common Toad at the metal footbridge was attacked by what might have been a female! The waters cloudiness being an issue.
Comment by Julian — March 14, 2024 @ 7:32 pm |
3/3/24 x3 Roe deer hillside.
Comment by Paul Scholes — March 4, 2024 @ 11:44 am |
2/3/24 x2 Roe Deer running around the top on the old BIffa tip.
Comment by Paul Scholes — March 2, 2024 @ 5:39 pm |
20/2/24 x2 Roe Deer on hillside late aft.
Comment by Paul Scholes — February 21, 2024 @ 1:09 pm |
19/2/24 x2 Roe deer and x1 Brown Hare hillside.
Comment by Paul Scholes — February 19, 2024 @ 8:21 pm |
A Fox with a pronounced limp was working its way to the tip of The Bulge.
Comment by sibgrecorder — February 17, 2024 @ 4:29 pm |
Weasel running in and out of vegetation at main crossroads this afternoon
Comment by John Ingham — February 9, 2024 @ 2:57 pm |
25/2/24 Weasal exited a blue pipe and dissappeared into a ditch at bottom of VC path before Bowers.
Comment by Paul Scholes — February 5, 2024 @ 7:48 pm |
Comma butterfly in flight this morning in front of the Warren. Likely we had disturbed its hibernation spot whilst clearing vegetation.
Comment by John Ingham — January 24, 2024 @ 4:18 pm |
A surprisingly early, adult Hedgehog active foraging under bird feeders in Little Preston yesterday evening.
Comment by beckcottagebirder — January 22, 2024 @ 2:41 pm |
3/4/24 – x1 Roe Deer hillside.
4/1/24 – x1 Roe Deer hillside. x1 Weasal across central path.
Comment by Paul Scholes — January 5, 2024 @ 10:04 am |