Recent Sightings
Flora Field – a brown hare, a snipe and, spotted by Dan Heywood – overflying, a greater spotted … Read More
Fairfield Wildlife Blog
News, observations and updates about what is happening with wildlife in the Nature Reserve and in the Orchard. For more local observations, see the Fairfield Nature Reserve Project on iNaturalist.
For bird sightings also see the latest Fairfeld sightings on the Lancaster and District Birdwatching Society sightings forum.
November flush count
Exceedingly wet underfoot, but at least the rain and wind had abated. A decent tally of snipe – … Read More
Buzzards and SmallCopper
This afternoon there were two buzzards soaring above Arable Field being mobbed by gulls and jackdaws. A small … Read More
Redwing and Fieldfares
Hundreds of redwing and fieldfares flying over and going on to the reserve this afternoon. Could be due … Read More
A most promising start to the winter flush counts
A total of 50 snipe (3 of them jack) were flushed by the team in Big Meadow this morning … Read More
Yellow-haired Sun Fly
Quite a large, fat, hoverfly with lots of short bright yellow hair.
Female migrant hawker
This lovely dragonfly was sunning itself in the hedge between Big Meadow and Grammar School Field mid afternoon … Read More
Small Tortoiseshells
23 small tortoiseshell butterflies were feeding on a patch of thistles in Arable Field this afternoon. Steve
Migrant Hawker
Report by Jennifer