"Tramper" Birdwatch at Bleasdale Cottages.

Thankfully the weather was fine on both afternoons of the walks. The Sunday crowd seeing a good number of birds with plenty of sightings of the lapwing chicks and the redshanks behaving like they had young about though keeping them well hidden.

On the Tuesday afternoon the wind was fierce making it harder to get good sightings, but still managed to see lapwing chicks, curlew and sitting oyster catcher. The swallows in the birdhide have eggs in the nest.

Still keeping an eye on the oyster catcher sitting on her eggs in the old tree trunk, expect something to appear in the next few days.

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Oyster Catcher Sitting Tight.

This Oyster Catcher has chosen to nest in the top of an old tree stump in the fence. They usually choose to nest on the ground with a few stones or pebbles.
The nest is about a metre from the ground.

The visiting Northern Wheatear have now moved on to their breeding grounds higher up the hills. We enjoyed their stay with us, they are such pretty ones to watch.

The Grey Wagtail that nested in the wall of Brook House have now flown the nest. I kept an eye on them while painting the railings and was entertained with their antics trying everything for the first time, flying to the yard wall, then the roof and then a paddle by the brook.

Hope there will be lots of Lapwing chicks next week for the Garstang Walking Festival Tewit Teas and Tramper Birdwatch here in Bleasdale.

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