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Keith Mills


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Dropped my Daughter off here today as she is going to be a ''Volunteer''.
Had a quick look round ......
A few first impressions :
The £6 million visitor centre will be opened this Easter.
It is Large, but Riggers and Mike C. please note, it does blend in well.
As it is intended to float it is being constructed in a sort of dry dock. This will eventually be called the ''CONSERVATION LAKE''
As I looked at the centre, it appears as 75% ROOF . A giant Dutch Barn springs to mind.
The roofing material is hand crafted OAK TILES, which will eventually weather to silver grey.
Incorporates a Cafe.
A spell of birding produced : In the trees( plenty new nest boxes)...numerous Reed Buntings,G Tits, B Tits, Robins,Dunnock and Blackbirds.
A 'resident' Kestrel. And a flock of 40 Linnets.
On the large Lagoon near the motorway named ''Number One Pit'' there was variety with low numbers:
C 30 Lapwing ,1 GC Grebe, 1 Little Grebe. 6 Cormorants, 4 Goldeneye
6 Oystercatchers, 1 Goosander, 3 Mute swans. Few Canada Geese,Few Tufties,
Few Coot and other stuff I really needed my 'scope for............ Back in March with it.

-- Edited by keith mills on Thursday 10th of February 2011 03:21:45 PM

-- Edited by keith mills on Thursday 10th of February 2011 04:33:29 PM

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Ian Woosey


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28/12/10 am

The redhead Smew was still present (2nd day) on the Ribble, about 100yds downstream of the access bridges at 09:15. Four drake Goosanders kept swiming up to it moidering it. It eventually hauled up onto the ice and started preening. A Kingfisher was present, and 7 Goldeneye were up and down the river..

The reserve proper was very quiet, as was to be expected - A Sparrowhawk perched up, a Teal in a ditch, and about 10 Linnets were the best of it. The only open piece of water on the main lake held a raft of mostly Black-headed Gulls with a few Common, some Mallards and Coot.... Spoke to a gent who had seen 2 Barn Owls, a Green Sandpiper and a Stonechat at first light. 7 Reed Buntings and 2 Coal Tits were on the feeders on the way out.

-- Edited by Ian Woosey on Tuesday 28th of December 2010 12:35:07 PM

-- Edited by Ian Woosey on Tuesday 28th of December 2010 12:44:47 PM

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Dennis atherton


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First visit for me, looks like the place has good potenial, lots of birds around even with all the digging, a few herons, loads of mute swans, canada geese, cormorants, buzzards, pochard and tufties, great crested grebe, snipe, reminds me a lot of penny, location points for what looks like about 5 hides, maybe more when completed, all quite nicely put in key locations, the visitor center looks like a modern piece of art, very nice design, looking forward to seeing it finished smile.gif

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Paul Heaton


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Loads of building work today, such a shame was hoping to get some good birding inevileye.gif

Mute swans and Redshank did not seem to be bothered by the work,


Keep Birding

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Anne Wilkinson


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Yes I had been told about this Hobby and its preferred perch of an M6 lamp, nevertheless I nearly crashed the car when I joined the motorway yesterday and saw it! Brilliant.

Brockholes is coming on in leaps and bounds now and should be officially opened as a LWT Reserve next Easter - just in time for the Whimbrel roost. Cant wait.

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hobby catching dragonflies then taking them onto a lampost on the m6 sliproad to eat.rest for a few minutes then a repeat performance.

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Wednesday 28th of July 2010 11:00:15 PM

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