tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21774117561833115092024-02-06T21:32:25.782-08:00PODS WORLDTales of a Cheshire local patcher...
(birds beer and football)Podsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211967268172668889noreply@blogger.comBlogger481125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177411756183311509.post-72669950679112895292012-09-09T13:52:00.000-07:002012-09-09T13:52:48.846-07:00HERE ENDETH THE FIRST CHAPTER<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>THAT'S ALL FROM THE POD'S WORLD BLOG FOLKS...</b></span><br />
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Some photos of the action aboard the Calmac ferry 'Hebridean Isles'...<br />
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the end is nigh...I've run out of space according to google so cannot upload any more photos. Anybody got any ideas how to over come this???</div>Podsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211967268172668889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177411756183311509.post-3031174474324804322012-08-25T09:29:00.000-07:002012-08-25T09:29:12.792-07:00RVP<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQI-5Y3CO0NDoPmmONMyuGJQ4KSE7y7LEzvMxwJncytTvwK2uy63uzig4cFUE6CYr2JqMZvrmeG-1_RrjaJwNdR2b9a_Fa-WjzJcvGyBmZRwJNGxJhIGNMdLFmMdVeSjowCGjHVu_jIPpb/s1600/RVP+GET+IN!.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQI-5Y3CO0NDoPmmONMyuGJQ4KSE7y7LEzvMxwJncytTvwK2uy63uzig4cFUE6CYr2JqMZvrmeG-1_RrjaJwNdR2b9a_Fa-WjzJcvGyBmZRwJNGxJhIGNMdLFmMdVeSjowCGjHVu_jIPpb/s640/RVP+GET+IN!.png" width="640" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">Money well spent</div>Podsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211967268172668889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177411756183311509.post-51457801779067377902012-08-25T06:32:00.000-07:002012-08-25T06:32:38.556-07:00COMMON TERNDown on the Patch our <b><span style="color: orange;">Common Terns</span></b> have done really well and one cute little juvenile is coming along nicely..<br />
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A fantastic first breeding record and one we hope will continue next year. Only the 3rd breeding site this year in Cheshire no less and rather late as well. Keep those fish coming mum and dad.Podsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211967268172668889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177411756183311509.post-25345013699994673612012-08-25T06:24:00.000-07:002012-08-25T06:24:00.204-07:00NORFOLK CAMPINGAt long last the family (wife + pooch) and I have managed to get away to that wonderful part of the UK namely the North Norfolk coast. Once the best kept secret now plagued by rich southerners buying up all the property for use once a year holiday homes. Even the pubs have suffered with our favourite The Pale Bovine Liquor Dispensary (The Dun Cow) at Salthouse gutted, repainted and tarted up for the hordes. Cheapest meal now well over a tenner...ahhh! The chippy(s) at Wells were doing a roaring trade, I wonder why?<br />
On arriving at our campsite at Stukey my not happened for ages gout decided this was the day to flare up and I spent the rest of the week sun bathing hence nowt was added to the year list...bugger!<br />
One brief trip out to Ticwell to meet up with Lou Cross and family was the best I could muster. Also met up with one of my other old school (birding that is) pals Pete (Mr Bird guide done well for himself what!) Morris who was also at Ticwell with family in tow.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">As luck had it I actually managed a butterfly tick whilst not actually butterflying with that most mysterious thing called <b><span style="color: lime;">Wall</span></b> or to give it its old name <b><span style="color: lime;">Hedge Brown</span></b>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">back to work tomorrow...roll on October!</div>Podsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211967268172668889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177411756183311509.post-56391961928381880322012-08-23T13:34:00.000-07:002012-08-23T13:34:04.003-07:00TOP O'THE LEAGUEAfter GW1 look who's doing the business....<br />
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Podsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211967268172668889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177411756183311509.post-68295149089232457572012-08-16T04:04:00.000-07:002012-08-16T04:04:30.490-07:00Foulshaw MossI managed to nip into Foulshaw Moss whilst on route up the Cumbrian coast this week...more Bat surveys to do. Timing was epic as that big round golden ball in the sky had decided to come out and play. Others had the same idea and the car park was almost full with 5 cars! as people were out with their cameras trying to capture the wildlife on show.<br />
With the sun hot and temperatures reaching 22'c there were Dragonflies everywhere with <b><span style="color: lime;">Black Darters</span></b> being the commonest.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">tara 4 now</div>Podsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211967268172668889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177411756183311509.post-25327310501916278332012-08-13T00:45:00.000-07:002012-08-13T00:45:59.042-07:00HARRY AND HARVEY.2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxtThtlMJ0v7tFbgHySDVm2WQmRq3Ej8DbfKmu_zlrBG702wXHLaHMKQDb-ByH5OESUHngOlyaHWqZqeR0oAPClKXuyn7UlV5OSZ-xCjSeByzVino0lsh-buScFRrkKy3VWwAnA1iD9DyT/s1600/H+AND+H+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="572" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxtThtlMJ0v7tFbgHySDVm2WQmRq3Ej8DbfKmu_zlrBG702wXHLaHMKQDb-ByH5OESUHngOlyaHWqZqeR0oAPClKXuyn7UlV5OSZ-xCjSeByzVino0lsh-buScFRrkKy3VWwAnA1iD9DyT/s640/H+AND+H+copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
Podsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211967268172668889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177411756183311509.post-20462045193770556892012-08-11T02:24:00.001-07:002012-08-11T04:51:45.131-07:00OLYMPICS LONDON 2012Anyone else bored of all the 24/7 athletics!!...since when was synchronised swimming a sport or dressage ( posh dancing horses) a sport. Isn't the motto of the Olympics strongest and fastest. If they can have such useless so called 'sports' such as team diving then surely we can have darts, surely a gold medal in the bag for Mr Taylor. Anyway enough of my drivel the Premier League starts soon...thank heavens!<br />
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To get away from all the wall to wall BBC nonsense here's a great place to be away from it all....<br />
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The North West's (just) answer to Scillies...Bardsey Island a place that's certainly hit the birding headlines this year. Makes you wonder what the previous warden was up to for the past god knows how many years?<br />
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tara 4 nowPodsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211967268172668889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177411756183311509.post-58469657208322001032012-07-29T06:33:00.001-07:002012-07-29T06:33:05.327-07:00BUFFY WATCHMade a couple of sorties over to the once world famous (well in the UK birding world anyway) Frodsham Marsh this weekend to hopefully get a glimpse of the Buff Breasted Sandpiper that's been showing on and off. Unfortunately every time I visited it had just done one back to the Mersey mud or wherever it was sneaking off to. I did though see the vast flock of <b><span style="color: orange;">Blackwits</span></b> that recently hit the news with a potential mega grip back in the shape of a Hudsonian Godwit that thankfully for us old timers proved to be a moulting (of sorts) common Blackwit...phew!<br />
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With no sign of Buffy here's a piccy from way back in the early days when there was no such thing as digiscoping...a shot of a <b><span style="color: orange;">Buff breasted Sandpiper</span></b> that I found on the ICI Tank 3rd October 1983.<br />
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<br />Podsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211967268172668889noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177411756183311509.post-76240804029355778622012-07-24T11:35:00.000-07:002012-07-24T11:35:07.530-07:00WORKS A BITCH SOMETIMES...NOT!Out in the deepest depths of Lincolnshire and there's an abundance of wildlife if you've got some patience. This little fellow was playing hide and seek in the grass by the roadside...<br />
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As is, Mike updated me on the goings on for Moss Side this past month and Jesus Christ!! if not only one but two mega butterflies were showing right NOW!!! gen passed on and absorbed I raced off on my ageing two-wheeler.<br />
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Cruising past the well cared for Marston Pools I happened to notice a white blob sat on one of the two artificially rafts on the West Pool. Low and behold its a<b><span style="color: orange;"> Common Tern</span></b> (female, red bill with black tip) sat on what looked like a nest whilst another <b><span style="color: orange;">Common Tern</span></b> circled (male, full red bill).<br />
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Nearby in the same wood a very blue <b><span style="color: magenta;">Azure Damselfy</span></b> (not a newey but nice to id all the same)<br />
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more to come hopefully so stay tuned readers...surely we'll get some hot balmy sunny days for sure..??</div>Podsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211967268172668889noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177411756183311509.post-38269212992973092352012-07-03T14:13:00.000-07:002012-07-03T14:13:49.051-07:00NBANo not that naff bouncy ball game played over the pond by tall dudes but another addition to my butterfly list - <b><span style="color: lime;">NORTHERN BROWN ARGUS</span></b> doing the business on the cloudy slopes of Arnside Knott the North West's premier butterfly site.<br />
I joined what seems to be a rather nice easy going clan of like minded people scouring this Cumbrian hillside (the lowest <i>Marilyn</i> in England) for the latest butterfly to brave this awful summer. Within minutes of leaving the car park I was in amongst the thick of it with butterflies everywhere even though the sun refused to shine.<br />
I personally counted/id'd 10 species - <b><span style="color: lime;">NBA, DARK GREEN FRIT, SMALL PEARL BORDERED FRIT, MEADOW BROWN, GRAYLING, COMMON BLUE, LARGE SKIPPER, SMALL TORTOISESHELL, SPECKLED WOOD and SMALL HEATH.</span></b>..what a place.<br />
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the day was better than an Attenborough nature programme.</div>Podsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211967268172668889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177411756183311509.post-11220695286664711062012-06-30T02:28:00.003-07:002012-07-02T00:22:09.660-07:00ELBOWGot soaked wet through standing in a muddy field being barged into every minute straining my neck muscles drinking over priced wee <i>(carlsberg)</i> watching a band called Elbow under the daunting shadow of Cheshire's finest scientific monument Jodrell Bank....great stuff!!<br />
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The <b><span style="color: orange;">Great crests </span></b>on the mere have been trying for ages to nest but constant battering by wind, waves and rain has prevented them from even building a nesting platform. Now with a lull (fingers crossed) they've gone for it big style with six pairs all nesting in Coward Reed bed Bay...<br />
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The mere has also played host to a wee flock of 5 <b><span style="color: orange;">Common Terns</span></b>, now if <strike>Cawos</strike> FOAM<br />
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Have now little fella</div>Podsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211967268172668889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177411756183311509.post-4220825474229596632012-06-23T03:05:00.002-07:002012-06-23T03:05:45.774-07:00LITTLE SWIFTA mega in Cheshire! well its about bloody time. Unfortunately though its one of those already on the list jobs, still its a Cheshire tick (for almost every Cheshire birder I'd say).<br />
I pulled up on the New Brighton prom leapt out the car and ducked as the Little Swift flew right over head down the road across to the beach and back again along the side of the residential flats no doubt keeping out of the wind and driving rain. Whipping out my meagre camera I stood in line with the North West's finest image gatherers attempting to capture this mega swift for posterity.<br />
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my 4th in the UK.<br />
<b><span style="color: lime;">New Forest 2000</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: lime;">Cromer 2005</span></b><br />
I'd swap all previous for a 5second view of a Pacific SwiftPodsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211967268172668889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177411756183311509.post-32976555847612506052012-06-21T08:35:00.000-07:002012-06-21T08:35:32.458-07:00SNAKES ON A COURSEAn educational trip down south to further my limited knowledge of all things reptilian also gave me the chance to boost the numerous lists I now seem to be keeping. But first after a rather reptile free site visit to the RSVP reserve of Aylesbeare Common, Devon (one female Adder and a very brief Common Lizard) we were treated to the tutor's 'pets'...<br />
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First up a <b><span style="color: lime;">South American Blood Python</span></b>, not your every day UK reptile. This beast could squeeze out the extra penny from a tight arsed Scotsman. With several female Ecologists present us chaps had to show our coolness as this monster wrapped itself around our various limbs. The first snake I've ever held...phew!<br />
As if that was not enough out comes a <b><span style="color: lime;">Baird's Rat Snake </span></b>all 1.5m of it...<br />
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Reptile course over I headed back up North on the M5 and as the sun was still shining (as it always seems to do down South) a chance to grip one of the UK's rarest Butterflies...<b><span style="color: magenta;">Large Blue</span></b>.<br />
A Butterfly once lost to the countryside from habitat destruction and over collecting has now re-emerged via a re-introduction scheme by The National Trust at the very English hillside of Collard Hill, Somerset.<br />
Timed to perfection I had 10 minutes worth of viewing before the clouds rolled in and managed one record shot before the 'Blues' did their disappearing act in the grass just like Cumbria's Mountain Ringlets.<br />
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As Arnie once famously said ''I'll be back'' a cracking place just a stones throw from Glastonbury and its charms. Walking back to the car I ventured along a worn path through a meadow and was about to walk past a rather obvious trampled patch of grass when I noticed a striking Orchid at its extremity. Something told me this wee flower must be something special so out came the camera. Now I know where you think this could be going but NO NEVER!! I'm not starting an Orchid list...honest. Anyway the flower in question was a <b><span style="color: blue;">Greater Butterfly Orchid</span></b>, what a truly awesome coincidence a mega Butterfly and a mega Orchid on the same Somerset hillside now that's a double to ponder.<br />
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Butterflies were on show down on Aylesbeare Common as well and I scored my first<b><span style="color: magenta;"> Green Hairstreak</span></b> and <b><span style="color: magenta;">Pearl bordered Fritillary</span></b>.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">adiĆ³s</span> amigosPodsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211967268172668889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177411756183311509.post-87296345432503340232012-06-17T06:57:00.000-07:002012-06-30T06:25:22.714-07:00WOODY AND PALSStuck indoors waiting for the never ending rain to cease I did a bit of garden listing in the hope something just might pay us a visit or fly over...a pair of Cranes would be nice (they've just been seen again over The Midlands somewhere)<br />
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Robin looking at me wondering why I'm hanging out the bedroom window. I purchased a special 'Robin' nest box for this little fellow but will he use it...no!<br />
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Picture the scene...a steamy South East Asian jungle, there's a mega endemic Pigeon skulking in the undergrowth and you're there hiding up a tree to avoid the leeches (and tigers) camera at the ready for the gripping photo...<br />
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bingo! the denizen of the rainforest captured for the first time on film..<br />
.<b>White necked Woodstonka</b>...what a crippler. I don't get out much these days so I have to fantasize now and again.<br />
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Whist stocking up the feeders I came across this cute little moth in the garden shed.<br />
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its stopped raining for once so off to the Patch I go.......later!Podsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211967268172668889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177411756183311509.post-86716250341333989742012-06-14T12:19:00.000-07:002012-06-17T02:05:37.140-07:00MOUNTAIN RINGLETFor once I managed to time it just right...June-Cumbria-Irton Fell-Sunshine-Mid day. An inbetweeny survey hour gave me the chance to leg it up Irton Fell unfortunately not a Wainwright and secure the prize on offer.<br />
At least 8 of the little brown jobs going about their business in the sunny but rather windy conditions.<br />
Tough buggers to photo as the slightest shadow sent them scurrying for cover but worth the hike.<br />
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The tantalizing first glimpse, typically hiding as the passing clouds covered the sun.<br />
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Another one a male me thinks...sorted.<br />
Below looking NE from Irton Fell towards Wasdale with Great Gable peaking over the ridge on the right.<br />
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En route back in the car park met up with a guy who'd come all the way from Sussex to see his last Butterfly for the set (59 residents I think) and they say us twitchers are mad. Hope you scored Sussex Kipper.Podsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211967268172668889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2177411756183311509.post-74281796201328732522012-06-14T12:04:00.001-07:002012-06-14T12:04:40.359-07:00ROLL ONAnd now for some naff pics of a Yorkshire Mega...<br />
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two shots one from each of my cameras, both crap but OML what a stonkin bird.<br />
For me that's my 3rd in the UK. I seem to be connecting once every 12 to 13 years since my first in Hampshire way back in 1987 then one up in Geordie Land in 2000. Roll on 2024/25Podsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211967268172668889noreply@blogger.com0