Flora of Cumbria Field Meeting at Cunswick with lots of sedges and sunshine ☀️ with Adders Tongue, Woodruff, Goldilocks Buttercup and Early Purple Orchid….

This weekend I recorded my 900th plant species in the UK with Goldilocks Buttercup agg. Ranunculus auricomus in Cumbria, a total of 16131 iRecord records!

Still 360+ Bar-tailed Godwit & 420+ Knot @ Seaforth NR today (all in winter plumage), all the Redshank have gone and just a handful of Dunlin hanging on. Common Tern were very noisy and the predator fence is helping the Canada’s 😂

2nd BBS visit to Dyson Farming Bonby Carrs this morning (40 species) with the wet spring legacy including breeding Shoveler, Shelduck, c.5 pairs of Lapwing & a pair of Oystercatcher. Also BOCC RED Cuckoo, Corn bunting, Yellowhammer, Yellow Wagtail & Skylarks.

A morning bird surveying Dyson Farming Roxholme, Lincs. First impressions are of an open landscape, but the secret to this site are the mature/wide herb rich margins; 4pr breeding Grey Partridge, 10 singing Corn Buntings, Yellowhammer, Skylark, Linnet and a lone male Peregrine….

Nightingale singing from impenetrable blackthorn in the middle of the day (well at 16.15hrs)….

St Cuthbert’s churchyard Kentmere, a sea of Pignut, Meadow Buttercup & Red Clover…. wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland 🌺 ❤️ 🌱

I check 78 of my Lake District nestboxes yesterday and had Pied Fly in 15. I recorded my 1st Pied Fly on 30th Apr and by 31st May 3 broods were ready for ringing, 11 had chick’s too small to ring and one was still on eggs… (Also BT 26, GT 6, NH 1 and Empty 30) Cumbria Bird Club

☀️ Globeflower, Windermere Cumbria 02.06.24 BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland wildflowerhour

Barrow Wildlife: Dingy Skipper, Large Skipper, Bee Orchid and Northern Marsh Orchid. Nice stuff from Cumbria CumbriaWildlifeTrust

Frank Lake, High River, Calgary 🇨🇦 2 hours, 46 species and 13 lifers… that’s what you call a good start!

Wilson’s Phalarope, feeding at the snout of the Athabasca Glacier in the Canadian Rockies 🇨🇦

Spruce Grouse and Clark’s Nutcracker and Rocky Mountain Goat…. 🇨🇦

Now that’s what I call a campsite list…. 🇨🇦

Rocky birding 🇨🇦

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Dusky Grouse with chicks and Black Bears…. #whistler 🇨🇦

An unexpected visitor in the kitchen last night - Oak Eggar moth… stunning!

Unringed White Stork foraging on the A590 roundabout at Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria (27/08/24).... clearly just walked out of the South Lakes Safari Zoo…