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I Love Arnside and Silverdale

And Gait Barrows, Hutton Roof and Farleton, Leighton Moss, Arnside Knott and everywhere else as well. Here is my blog of records, Articles, Sketches, Poems and photographs which I would love to share with you. In the main my blog refers to Nature subjects within this most beautiful North Lancs/Cumbria areas, but may from time to time also include out of the area stuff, including the most beautiful GOA (India).

Wednesday, 6 April 2011

Yesterday was like searching for the Shrike in Fog

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Bryan Yorke (1948-2022)

"Since coming to live up here, its been like being on holiday everyday, will I ever get back to reality? its just like a beautiful dream!"

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My "Epipactis" Orchid Site Blog

Please dont forget to check out my Epipactis Atrorubens and More Blogsite which gives lots of information about the very special rare orchids we have on Hutton Roof

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My Ferns of Hutton Roof Blog

Please feel free to check out my blog (currently in preparation) which shows my photos and descriptions and ongoing studies into the magnificient ferns which we are fortunate to have on my doorstep on Hutton Roof.

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My Flora of Hutton Roof Blog

Please feel free to check out my new blog - The Flora of Hutton Roof which is still in construction. All photographs and text refer specifically to Hutton Roof (including both Farleton and Dalton Crags) It is designed to give photos showing identification points and my study notes. I hope the site is casual and enjoyable.

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My Nature Poetry, Sketches etc Blog

This is my blog written about nature in poetry and prose, together with sketches etc. This is a very popular light hearted approach.

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Burton Swift Bird Study Group

This is a lovely little blog concentrating purely on our local BURTON IN KENDAL SWIFT. Here we record their numbers, activities, nest sites etc etc from year to year.

Please feel free to check out how the Swifts are fairing in Burton by clicking over this link

VISMIG LINK

For almost 30 years I have been interested in bird migration and have each year, especially in Autumn done vismig counts of moving birds through our Area. Up until ten years ago I was counting down at Haslingden in Rossendale and more recently I have been enjoying counting at Hutton Roof or closeby to my new home in Burton In Kendal.

The authorative vismig recording site is Trektellen which offers full reports from the UK and also all over Europe click here.

"Redwings to the left of me, Fieldfares to the right..." - If you would like to read the recent vismig article by Clive McKay and recently published in Birdguides, then click here. (local records mentioned)....

Click on the links below for quick access to my work over the past 10 years:-

VISIBLE BIRD MIGRATION RECORDS - AUTUMN 2009

VISIBLE BIRD MIGRATION RECORDS - AUTUMN 2010

VISIBLE BIRD MIGRATION RECORDS - AUTUMN 2011

VISIBLE BIRD MIGRATION RECORDS - AUTUMN 2012

VISIBLE BIRD MIGRATION RECORDS - AUTUMN 2013

VISIBLE BIRD MIGRATION RECORDS - AUTUMN 2014

VISIBLE BIRD MIGRATION RECORDS - AUTUMN 2015

VISIBLE BIRD MIGRATION RECORDS - AUTUMN 2016

VISIBLE BIRD MIGRATION RECORDS - AUTUMN 2017

VISIBLE BIRD MIGRATION RECORDS - AUTUMN 2018

VISIBLE BIRD MIGRATION RECORDS - AUTUMN 2019

VISIBLE BIRD MIGRATION RECORDS - SPRING 2020

VISIBLE BIRD MIGRATION RECORDS - AUTUMN 2020

VISIBLE BIRD MIGRATION RECORDS - SPRING 2021

The Lighter Side with Poetry galore

If you just want plain poetry, sketches or drawings or to see my "artistic side" then why not check out my nature poetry blog by clicking here.

Quick Links to Blogs Etc

A Orchid feast or famine (12th July 2011)
Albino Wild Thyme (15th July 2011)
All Shades of Blue as I look West
An Echoing Canyon of Coloured Carpet
An Evening Stroll at the Moss
Andy Holdens Wildlife Photos
Angular S Seal, Birds Foot & Epipactis
Angular Solomons S & Lily OTV (3rd Jun 2012)
Appleby Horse Fair Photos
Arnside Trig & Toothwort
Asplenium scolopendrium "Ramosum"
Autumn Gentian - (30th Aug 2011)
Autumn Gentian (5/9/15)
Autumn Gentians/Hawthorn Berries 13/9/19
Aylesbury Peregrine Sketch
Beatrix Potters at Near Sawry 2010
Bee Orchids on my doorstep
Beetham to the Fairy Steps
Berries 2019 incredible year!
Birds Foot Sedge Photos - Carex Ornithopoda
Birdwatching Over Pendle (scroll down)
Blackcap versus Redstart confusion
Broad Leaved Helliborine - Purple Variant photos
Broad Leaved Helliborine with compensated spike
Bullfinch, Chaff-Chiff and Frogs 7th Mar 2013
Burton & Dalton Snowy Photos 2010
Burton Fell Fungi Photos - 2010
Burton Fell- Pickles Wood - May 10th 2011
Burton News Reports
Burton Swift Study Group
Burton's Chiffchaffs Sketch
Bus Pass Birders Bus
Can't remember there being a Tarn there yesterday
Canal:Carnf to Borwick Apr 18th 2011
Capernwray Open Day 2010
Carnforth -N. Lundsfield - (26th Aug 2010)
Carnforth & Warton Crag (17th June 2010)
Carnforth, Grasmere & Yealand (Aug 2010)
CDBC Recorders Conference
Charlie's Memorial Walk
Chiffchaff and Warblers (mid April on 2013)
Chiffchaffs - Where are the rest?
Chiffchaffs by name Sketch
Cloud photos (skyscapes)
Coldwell Parrock - Orchids
Comes with the Territory - Confessions Vismigger
Common Redstarts arrival 2017
Common Rock Rose
Coronation Street Photos
Crossbills
Cuckoo arrival 2017
Cumswick & Scoutscar Mar 1st 2011
Dalton Crags - A place to be (Nov 14th 11)
Dalton Crags - April 15th 2011
Dalton Crags - Hawfinch - April 13th 2011
Dalton Crags (13th May 2010)
Dalton Crags (2nd July 2010)
Dalton Snow Photos Nov 29th 2010
Dalton Woodland Burial Ground
Dalton: G.Warblers Arrival - Apr 22nd 2011
Dalton: Warblers-GGS Film Pt2 - Apr 23rd 2011
Dalton:Lily Of The Valley - May 9th 20ll
Dark Green V High Brown Fritillary
Dark Red Helliborine (2nd July 2011)
Dark Red Helliborine Photos - July 15th
Deer Ticks, Peckers, Daphne and Other Birds
Derwentwater (18th March 2010)
Derwentwater (25th June 2010)
Derwentwater Mar 16th 2011
Derwentwater- Cat Bells Sketch
Diary Thr 13th Feb 2020 - Mascula Rosettes
Dockacres - Sedge Warblers - May 2nd 2011
Dockacres to Burton (17th July 2010)
Dog Lichen and Cladonia
E.Helliborine var purpurea on HR
Early Purple Orchid Rosettes in January 2019
Eaves Wood to Pepperpot (27th May 2010)
Entanglement of Bluebells
Epipactis Atrorubens and Variants 16/7/15
Epipactis H. Purpurea Variants 2014
Epipactis Helleborine Variant "Purpurea"
Epipactis Helliborine - Purpurea (12th Aug 14)
Epipactis Helliborine - Variants
Epipactis Hybrid Photos
Epipactis Phyllanthes discovery
Epipactis Practice
Epipactis schmalhauseneii Part 4
Epipactis Schmalhausenii "Rare Hybrid" Sketch
Epipactis x. schmalhausenii (Fancy That)
Fantasy flyover for Vismiggers
Farleton Knott - June 26th 2011
Field Gentian
Fieldfare numbers down 2019/2020
First Schmalhauseneiii 28th May 2017
Fly Orchids in Silverdale June 7th 2011
Force Falls Fish Pass Nr Levens in prose
Gait Barrows (21st May 2010)
Gait Barrows (4th December 2009)
Garden Warblers arrival 2017
GG Shrike - Hutton Roof (11th Nov 2009)
GG Shrike and Impaling Vole Mar 23rd 2011
GG Shrike and Migration - Mar 24th 2011
GG Shrike and Migration Mar 18th 2011
GG Shrike and verse March 8th 2011
GG Shrike Hutton Roof March 13th 2011
GG Shrike Impaled Prey Mar 22nd 2011
GG Shrike photos at Dalton Mar 14th 2011
GPS for Dalton Crags
Grange Over Sands & Levens
Grasmere - Alcock Tarn - 29th July 2010
Grasmere - Easedale Tarn - 12th May 2010
Grasmere - Helm Crag - 17th Aug 2011
Grasmere - Loughrigg Summit
Grasmere - Wordsworth etc Sat 2nd March 2013
Grasmere & Elterwater Jun 30th 2010
Grasmere and Wordsworth
Grasmere to Ambleside - May 11th 2011.
Grasmere: White Moss Tarn May 28th 2011
Grayling
Green Winged Orchids - (6th May 2010)
Greenland Wheatears 2017
Grubbins Wood (28th May 2010)
Gud Morning Mi Lady-Tresses 27th Aug 2011
Hale & White Moss (10th May 2010)
Hale Moss & Whitecreek (14th June 2010)
Hat blown off into Canal Sketch
Hawfinch, Stonechat & GGS - Mar 27th 2011
Heathwaite & Arnside Tower (30th Nov 2009)
Hedge Woundwort - 4th June 2020
Helliborine Count Summary 2012
Henry VIII and some Limestone Pavements
Holly Fern and Possible Hybrid
Holly Fern BBC News Item
HOLME PARK FELL
Holme Park Nature Reserve - April 27th 2011
Hutton Roof - Autumn Gentian (250811)
Hutton Roof - GGS & Migration Mar 29th 2011
Hutton Roof - GGShrike Mar 30th 2011
Hutton Roof Natural Designs
Hutton Roof Natural Limestone Sculptures
Hydnellum peckii (Devil's Tooth)
Hypericum perforatum mantanum
Jack Scout & SSunbeams (31st Aug 2010)
Jack Scout Silverdale (10th Aug 2010)
Kendal U3A Guided Walk
Keswick - Castlehead (19th May 2010)
Lancelot Clark Storth - May 7th 2011
Lancelot Clark- Burton Fell - Apr 30th 2011
Lancelot Clark- Burton Fell - April 16th 2011
Lancelot Fungi Photos - Nov 8th 2010
Landscape Trust forthcoming events
Language of the Song Thrush
Levens Park Black Fallow Deer
Lily Of The Valley & Bedstraws
Limestone Pavement Photos
LINNETS Extroadinary numbers of Linnets
Lords Lot Capernwray - (17th Aug 2010)
Lords Lot Capernwray (13th July 2010)
Lords Lot Capernwray (6th July 2010)
Lots Uv Little Wilburs Toneet tha nus.
Lumpy Bracket Fungi (Trametes gibbosa)
Lycoperdon echinatum - Spiny Puff 2015
Lycoperdon echinatum - Spiny Puffball
Marble Quarry, Beetham - April 26th 2011
Marsh Helliborine (6th July 2011)
Marsh Helliborine Photos July 12th 2010
Marsh Helliborine with her Frill....
Max Mings Confab (Waxwings on The Knott)
Mipit moves from Dee to Hutton (sketch)
Mipits sheltering whilst reading news
More of Lancelots Treasures
Mountain Melick Grass plus
Must be two of HR Revellers no! Regulars
Must be two of Hutton Roofs Revellers
My Pen and Ink Drawings
N.Marsh Orchid Photos - May 31st 2011
Nature Catch Ups
Nether Bridge - Karen Morton artists
No Birds - Porrige Sketch
No birds on Hutton Roof (5th March 2012)
No Broomrape but wet Bee Orchids
No its Not Bart Simpson its Max Ming
No Shrike - Small verse March 11th 2011
No Shrike but lots of Mipits Mar 17th 2011
No Shrikey, No Likey
Northern Greenland Wheatear (Lucorrhoa)
Notes (2) on Thrush Migration 2011
Notes on Finch Migration at HR 2011
Notes on Starling Migration 2011
Notes on Thrush Migration 2011
Nothing has to Interfere with Vismig
Nowt plain about Plain Quarry tha nus
Old Deer Fence at Deerbolt (9th Nov 11)
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
Orchid photos from Carnforth July 2010
Owd Ned grabbed a feasant!
P. Lonchitis versus P.Aculeatum (14th Aug 14)
Painted Lady Butterfly
Pale St Johns Wort - 16th July 2012
Park Wood Hutton Roof - (15th July 2010)
Parliament of Tawny Owls
Peacocks on Hutton Roof
Pearl Bordered with A Difference
Photos: Altocumulus Lenticularis over HR
Photos: Carnforth Flora (29th June 2010)
Pink Feet On Way to Morecambe.
Plain Quarry to Hutton Roof Nov 22nd 2010
Polypodium Cambricum 30th Aug 2014
Polypodium Cambricum photos
Polypodium Interjectum Bifid photos (4th Feb 2019)
Primula - (Primrose and Cowslip)
Probably the Best thing to Do
Pyramidal (4th July 2011)
Pyramidals are on the way
Rb Fotoman's Close up Plumage photos
Red-poll needed the ice breaker 21st Feb 2013
Redwing at Roost (18th Nov 2019)
Reflection - Grasmere
Return of the Cuckoo at Dalton
Return of the Tree Pipit at Dalton
Rydal Hall (31st July 2012)
Sandside's Sand Leek (20th July 2011)
SCOLLIES OR HARTS TONGUE FERN
Scotch Argus (25th July 2011)
Skylark is certainly not Larking About
Skylark V Merlin
Skylarks for Valentines Day !!
Slape Burton Lancelot - Verse Feb 11th 2011
Small Pearl Bordered Fritillaries On Show
Smart *** gets the whistle (true story)
Smart *** is having a day with the Ringer
Smart *** with his GPS (true story)
Smoked Sunbeams - Arnside Knott
Snippets of Wealth from 9th April 2020
Some nice Orchid Photos
Song Thrush versatility and Sky the Lark returns
Sounds Like a Warbler - April 17th 2011
Spikey Head photos etc
Spring Bird Migrations 2020 (occasional)
Spring Sandwort
Squinancywort (22nd July 2011)
Squinancywort and Autumn Gentians
St. Thomas Church Milnthorpe Sketch
Starling Squadrons on their way to Leighton Moss
Starlings - Leighton Moss (4th Nov 2009)
Starlings - Leighton Moss (Nov 30th 2009)
Staveley to Bowness (15th June 2010)
Stock Ghyll & Kirstone (5th July 2010)
Storth Woods, Dalton - May 19th 2011
Sun patters from Hutton Roof Sept 2011
Swallows at Hutton Roof - March 25th 2011
Swallows leaves our Shore (16th Aug 2011)
The first rev of the Motorbike
The Scream & Farleton Knott
The Sitting Swan Sketch - Apr 5th 2011
Thrang & Yealand - Pearl Bord B. May 5th 2011
Thrang Moss & White Moss (19th Apr 2010)
Toads and Frogs are trying to cross the roads
Too Much Vismigging !
Travellers Joy (27th July 2011)
Tree Pipits Arrival 2017
Tree Pipits of Dalton
Trig Happy Shrike & Chiffchaffs Mar 28th 2011
Trimphone Calling
Troutbeck (4th May 2010)
Trowbarrow Incline (21st July 2010)
Up to 14th December 2010 - Dec 15th 2010
Visible Bird Migration Autumn 2014
Vismig Oct 10th 2010 LOTS OF REDWINGS
Vismig Oct 24th 2010 FIELDFARE PEAK DAY
Vismig Oct 31st and special fungi photo
Vismig Totals - Hutton Roof 2009
Warton Crag (17th May 2010)
Where Art Thou Mr. Shrike (sketch)
Wig
Wildflowerhour
Wildlife Calendar - February
Willow Warbler and Chiffchaff
Willow Warbler Arrive Apr 4th 2011
Yealand Hall Alottment - (16th Aug 2010)
Yealand Hall Alottment -(28th July 2010)

Quick Links to Blog (2)

2015 Cumbria Wildlife Recorders Conference
A Lobed Spleenwort
Angular Solomons Seal-Clawthorpe 25th May 2017
Arnside Natural History Society 12th May 2016
Asplenium Scolopendrium - Crispum No.2 found
Asplenium Scolopendrium 'Crispum Greening'
Black Aphids, Black Ants and Broad L. Helliborines
Broad Leaved Helliborines - Whats going on? (3/8/15)
Bushwhakking Bracket - 14/08/15
Cow Wheat and Dropwort
Cumbria Wildlife - Gold Badgers Paw Award
Dawn Chorus over at Hutton Roof Village 18/6/16
Dipped In
E. Atrorubens - All over bah shouting 30/7/15
E. Atrorubens - Pallens Variant
E. Lemon Petalled and new Schmal (120716)
E. Schmalhauseneii mainly grow as twins
Epipactis - "Albiflora"
Epipactis Albiflora variant (10/07/16)
Epipactis atrorubens and variety 4/7/16
Epipactis atrorubens etc (6th June 2017)
Epipactis Hell var Purpurea (10/08/2016)
Epipactis Mixture - 27th July 2016
Epipactis Phyllanthes - Westmorelandaii (31/07/16)
Epipactis poem Rarity becomes the Norm (14/07/16
Epipactis Schmalhauseneii 2015
Epipactis Schmalhauseneii and Pallens Var
Epipactis weird ones (22/07/2016)
Finding a straight is a straight Atrorubens is difficult (24/7/15)
Fly Orchids Hutton Roof - 28th/29th May 2016
Fylde Naturalist Walk 8th July 2015
Gaitbarrow and The Lots 8th May 2018
Green Spleenwort (Viride) In situ comparison
Handkerchief Tree - Hutton Roof 18th June 2016
Harts Tongue Variants - Scollies
Holly Fern, Limestone Fern etc 9th Jun 2016
Hypericum Montanum and Beech Fern
Lots of Light Phase Variants amongst the Atrorubens
Marsh Lousewort & Northern Brown Argus 30/06/15
Marsh Lousewort on Park Wood side 2017
Montanums and Schmal 1 bites the dust
More E.Helleborine Purpurea (150816)
Northern Brown Argus on the wing 28/06/15)
Painted Lady - Sm Pearl Bordered Frits 6/6/16
Painted Lady Butterflies (29th May 2017)
Poem about a Hedgehog by Titus L
Rare Albiflora photo (100716)
Rob at Sizergh Castle - Hawfinches
Runelled Pot Hole Pavement 28th May 2017
Shmals, Atrorubens check at 3rd June 2017
Small Pear Bordered Fritillary etc
Small Pearl Bordered Frits and Orpine
Southern Marsh Orchid (27th May 2017)
Still checking Montanums 26/06/15
Swift Observations 2nd July 2015
The Lots and Gaitbarrow 8th May 2018
Ticks information etc
Vismig Autumn 2015 - No.2
Vismig Autumn 2015 - No.3
Vismig Autumn 2015 No.1
Walk for the British Pteridlogical Society 4/7/16
Whitethroat, Parsley Piert and Grayling 3/7/15
Yellow Sedge 30/06/15
Yellow Sedge and Epipactis (7th June 2017)
Zig Zag and Specimen 3a (16th June 2017)

Visible Migration Records

Just Click here for all Vismig records for Burton In Kendal, here on the Tretellen Site. Just select date from the drop down box. All records are from October 5th 2009 to November 7th 2012.
Just Click here for all Vismig records for Hutton Roof and held here on the Trektellen Site. Just select date from the drop down box. All records are from September 11th 2009 to October 25th 2012.

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Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre

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Heysham Bird Observatory

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Dungeness Bird Observatory

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Another Bird Blog

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Wild Wings and Wanderings

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Links (local)

Arnside and Silverdale AONB
Austin Morley Blogspot
Birding Aldcliffe
Birds2Blog (Pete Woodruff's Site)
Borderlands Birding Blog - Chris Hind
Burton In Kendal News
Burtonweb
Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre
Dalton Woodland Burial Ground
Emerging from the Undergrowth (Shinnys)
Great Grey Shrike at Dalton (Fraser)
Great Grey Shrike at Dalton Pt 2 (Fraser)
Hawfinches at Sizergh (Fraser)
Heysham Bird Observatory
I Love Arnside & Silverdale
Lancaster & District Birdwatching Society
Phil Slade's "Another Bird Blog"

High Brown Fritillary (Arnside Knott Aug 2009)

LINKS - Further Afield

Beejays Bits & Pieces
Bill Aspin's Birding Blog
Bradford Ornithological Group
Brian Rafferty - Wildlife Photographer
Calderdale Birds
Calderdale Moths
Chorley & District Natural History Society
Dave' Birding Blog (Dave Bickerton)
Dungeness Bird Observatory
East Lancs Ornithologist Club
European Amphibian and Reptile Blog
Fair Isle Bird Observatory
Falsterbo Bird Observatory
Fleetwood Birder
Fraser's Birding Blog (Fraser Simpson)
Fylde Bird Club
Haslingden Grane Nature Site
Haslingden Old and New
Haslingden Top O'th Slate Nature Site
Hilbre Observatory
Howick Village And Beyond
https://boulmerbirder.blogspot.com/2018/12/boneys-and-rest.html
Machrihanish Bird Observatory
Manchester Birding Forum
Mark Pearsons Blog
Mike Watson's Diary (East Lancs)
Natural Born Blogger
Natural Born Blogger
Nature Is Out There- Herts and Beyond (AJ Steele)
Pauline & Ian Wildlife Images
Pennine Skywatch
Portland Bird Observatory
Preston Society
Raptor Politics - Terry Pickford
Rossendale Birds Forum
Rossendale Ornithologist Bird Reports
Sandwich Bay Observatory
Scarborough Birding
South Lancs Flora (David Earl)
Spurn Bird Observatory
Stewchat (Northumberland)
Walney Bird Observatory
Wild Rossendale (Ste's Site)

LINKS - For reference

Bird Forum - A superb site
Botanical Society of the British Isles
Bugs (British Bugs)
Butterflies (UK Butterflies)
Dragonflies (British Dragonfly Society)
European Pressure & Fronts
Ferns in Britain & Ireland
Flora - South Lancs Flora
Lancashire & Cheshire Fauna Society
Lancashire Wildlife Links
Lancs, Ches Fauna - 2009 Report
Lichens (British Lichens)
Lichens (Leif & Anita Stridvall's Site)
Moths (Lancashire Moths)
Moths (UK Moths)
Rare Bird Alert
Tidal Predictions from Liverpool
Wild Flowers Of The British Isles
Wild Flowers, Grasses & Ferns
Wildflower Finder
Wildflowerhour
Wildlife Photographic Journals (Richard Steel)

Natural History Blogger Sites Click here

UK & Eire Natural History Bloggers

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My Blog List

I Love Arnside and Silverdale

- It is four years since Bryan Yorke, who ran this wonderful natural history blog, passed away. It has now been viewed over a million times! Bryan would've...
2 months ago
Haslingden Old and New...

- This site is dedicated to the memory of it's founder Bryan Yorke. 3rd January 1948 - 28th May 2022 A Haslingden lad who created a unique sourc...
4 years ago
Nature Poetry, Sketches, And the rest.

Paradise Lost (Paradise Terrace), Haslingden - *"Paradise Lost"* One penny banger, or a three penny jump jack or pinwheel, or maybe the funds only reached a liquorice stick or bubblegum card, I'd get fr...
6 years ago
Burton Swift Bird Study Group

Burton Swifts - Thursday 1st August 2019 week..... - *Monday 26th 2019* It is very possible we did miss some late birds this year. I had 3 separate reports of birds still present in the areas between the Ma...
7 years ago
Epipactis Atrorubens and More

Varietal forms of Epipactis atrorubens on Hutton Roof - Some of the varietal forms of Epipactis atrorubens which we have on Hutton Roof Top Row: The regular Classic Atrorubens on HR, Bicolor, Lutescens and Pal...
7 years ago
Haslingden's Top O'th Slate Nature Site

Top O'th Slate photo - Nice old photo showing the Top O'th Slate (Click over to enlarge) Kindly shared to us by Michael Mullaney
7 years ago
Haslingden War Heroes

Abbott, Thomas - Private (11129) - Pte Thomas Abbott *6th Battalion East Lancashire Regiment,* *Killed in Action,* *Died 9th August 1915* *Commemorated at the Helles Memorial.* N...
11 years ago
Beejays Bits and Pieces

Woodcroft Revisited - A 50s living history DVD - Here we have a great living history documentary about growing up in part of Rossendale in the 1950's. The DVD is really well produced by Ken Stott (remembe...
14 years ago
Haslingden Grane Nature Site

Frogspawn at Calf Hey.... - Thanks Clifford (Hargreaves) for sending in this great photo of frogspawn on Calf Hey (taken on 23rd March 2010).* Please click over photo to enlarge...* ...
16 years ago

My Poetry (Click over the title)

"Ay Rag Boone" 12th Feb 2012
A Clock and A Wonderin Mind
Dalton Crags The Place To Be For Me
Dark Red Helliborine (2nd July 2011)
Deardoro
Grayling
Great Grey Shrike
Holme Nature Reserve
Lancaster Canal
Lion and the Lamb (18th Aug 2011)
Lots uv Little Wilburs Toneet tha Nus
Loughrigg
Meadow Pipit Migrations
Orchid Feast or Famine
Pyramidal (4th July 2011)
Sheperd Said Owd Ned Grabbed a Feasant
Skylark Goes Thrup
The Tree Pipits of Dalton
Three Swallows do make a Summer
Up Slippery - Its Rural Tha Nus
Warton Crag
White Moss Plot Today

Followers

Autumnwatch 2014

Autumnwatch 2014

With Chris and Michaela (Photo: Jamie Normanton CWT)

Media

If you want to check out the Hutton Roof (2018) News item then please click here (4 mins duration)

If you want to check out my time on BBC Autumnwatch Extra at Leighton Moss 2014 with Brett Westwood Please Click Here (Film is for approx 20 mins duration)

If you want to check out my time on BBC Autumnwatch Extra at Leighton Moss 2013 with Euan Mcilwraith Please Click Here (Film is for approx 20 mins duration)

If you want to check out my time on BBC News for the finding of the rare Holly Fern after 56 years, with Beccy Meehan Please Click Here (Film is for approx 1min 20seconds)

A lovely film showing both of the rare Holly Ferns which was made and given to me as a gift by my good friend Brian Gomm of Kendal. Please click here to check it out. (Film is for approx 6 mins duration)

If you want to check out the Great Grey Shrike film in Dalton Crags. Made by Fraser and guess what! I do seem to recognise the owd chap at the beginning. Please click here.

Fraser also made another short film about the Great Grey Shrike Part 2 in Dalton/Hutton Roof. Shows the Shrike actually impaling a lizard. Please click here

Autumn Leaves

Autumn Leaves

Dalton 5th Nov 2010

Smoked Sunbeams

Smoked Sunbeams

Arnside Knott - 31st Aug 2010

Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary

Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary

Warton Crag 3rd July 2009

Marsh Helliborine

Marsh Helliborine

Carnforth 6th July 2011.

Great Feedback:

Shiela Newton (Newcastle)16th Aug 2011

I was researching Stock Ghyll Force, Ambleside – and I googled a link to your blog. I just had to write and say – WOW! Thanks for sharing all your wonderful knowledge – and your love of the countryside.

Best,Sheila

Carmen and Fred Horner (West Yorkshire) Your website is fantastic. 30th Oct 2011

from Kate Schofield. 1st April 2012 I Just wanted to tell you how much I'm enjoying your blog! I stumbled on it while googling Hale Moss and now I'm hooked and keep returning! I buy from farms in Arnside, Silverdale & Yealand Conyers, but dont get to spend as much time in the area as I would like. I'm finding your blog NEARLY as good as being there. Kind Regards, Kate Schofield.

Geoff E (Lancaster) 13th April 2012 Hi Bryan, Just wanted to send my greetings and thanks for such wonderful springtime offerings on your blogs which I can't tell you how much they are appreciated. I check them almost daily and never fail to wonder at your dedication and knowledge of wildlife. Take care..... you are a wonder.... and keep up the good work. Best wishes Geoff.

Mo Richards - 25th March 2014 Hi Bryan,

Felt it was about time to say how enjoyable your blog is, its not fair to go on looking at it without sending an appreciation.

Thought you might like to know that the Flora of Cumbria Indoor meet last Saturday, Geoffrey Halliday said that your refind of the Holly Fern on Hutton Roof last year was the highlight of the Cumbria botanical year.

Keep up the good work,

Cheers,

Mo Richards.

Birds of Dalton Crags and Hutton Roof

Birds of Dalton Crags and Hutton Roof

by Bryan Yorke

"Celebrating Our Swifts"

"Celebrating Our Swifts"

by Tanya and Edmund Hoare

50 Shades of Grey Limestone

50 Shades of Grey Limestone

Peter Standing

Orchids and Rare Flora of Hutton Roof

Orchids and Rare Flora of Hutton Roof

by Bryan Yorke

South Lakeland Bats

South Lakeland Bats

Gail Armstrong

Does the Honey Bee have a future

Does the Honey Bee have a future

Dr. Fred Ayres

Butterflies of Hutton Roof and catch up

Butterflies of Hutton Roof and catch up

Bryan Yorke

Confessions of a Lunatic

Confessions of a Lunatic

Dr. Kevin Briggs

Badgers, scapegoats or villains?

Badgers, scapegoats or villains?

Ian McMurdo

Rivers of South Cumbria

Rivers of South Cumbria

Jayne Wilkinson

Wild Morecambe Bay

Wild Morecambe Bay

by David Poole

Butterflies of the North West

Butterflies of the North West

Chris Winnick

Morecambe Bay Underwater Safari

Morecambe Bay Underwater Safari

Gordon Fletcher

Ferns of South Cumbria

Ferns of South Cumbria

Alec Greening

Leighton Moss

Leighton Moss

David Mower

On our Doorstep

On our Doorstep

Bryan Yorke

Saving Red Squirrels

Saving Red Squirrels

Bob Cartwright

Moths of Morecambe Bay

Moths of Morecambe Bay

Steve Benner

Hedgehogs

Hedgehogs

Rowan Worsman