Water rails???
Two rather different birds around the outlet to Alder Pond yesterday. A passer by thought they were water … 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.
Flowers and other wildlife
A fresh range of flowers to report: Plenty of rosebay willowherb about and also the rather less common … Read More
Wildflowers
Resumed work ragworting today and noticed a few more flowers. Nice to see yarrow and hawkbit growing in … Read More
Early morning birds
Graham did his latest monitoring walk around last Saturday at the early hour of 7am. He surprised a … Read More
Thrush and flowers
Very good sighting of a song thrush perched on one of the Orchard apple trees this morning. Also … Read More
Bird sightings by Richard
Drip’s last post mentioned that a group of FOG members went round the reserve with Richard Storton from … Read More
More wildflowers
Several us went on a very interesting tour of the Nature Reserve today with Richard Storton, our advisor … Read More
West Field Flowers
As I have noted before there are few flowers in the previously heavily fertilized West Field. However, where … Read More