Andrew Chick Birding, Ecology & Conservation including Birds, Farmland Birds, River Ecology and Bats (now living in Cumbria).

Troutbeck Bridge, England
Joined February 2014
Notts Bee-eater action 27/06/2017....(handheld point-&-click - no big lens needed...) #parkinthefieldnotontheroad it's only a £5!
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16/03/25 In Skiddaw Forest to visit Cumbria Wildlife Trust 3,000 acres for peatland & temperate rainforest restoration. A rare & transformative opportunity for upland recovery! Sadly, the motorbikes on Great Calva, damaging the fragile habitat, clearly hadn’t got the message!
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Joined BlueSky Socials 12th Nov 2024….
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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…
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An unexpected visitor in the kitchen last night - Oak Eggar moth… stunning!
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Dusky Grouse with chicks and Black Bears…. #whistler 🇨🇦
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🦆🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦🦆
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Rocky birding 🇨🇦
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Now that’s what I call a campsite list…. 🇨🇦
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Spruce Grouse and Clark’s Nutcracker and Rocky Mountain Goat…. 🇨🇦
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Wilson’s Phalarope, feeding at the snout of the Athabasca Glacier in the Canadian Rockies 🇨🇦
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Frank Lake, High River, Calgary 🇨🇦 2 hours, 46 species and 13 lifers… that’s what you call a good start!
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Barrow Wildlife: Dingy Skipper, Large Skipper, Bee Orchid and Northern Marsh Orchid. Nice stuff from Cumbria @cumbriawildlife
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☀️ Globeflower, Windermere Cumbria 02.06.24 @BSBIbotany @wildflower_hour
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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) @CumbriaBirdClub
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St Cuthbert’s churchyard Kentmere, a sea of Pignut, Meadow Buttercup & Red Clover…. @wildflower_hour @BSBIbotany 🌺 ❤️ 🌱
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Nightingale singing from impenetrable blackthorn in the middle of the day (well at 16.15hrs)….
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A morning bird surveying @DysonFarming 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….
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2nd BBS visit to @DysonFarming 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.
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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 😂
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