Despite the winds swinging round to a promising direction and the rest of the UK being littered in migrants, we seem to be a little light on the "good bird front" at the quarry of late. OK, so the scoter and gull-fest of mid week was nice and I arrived at the site "post-Osprey" one morning, but there's been little more than a trickle of common stuff so far this week. Willow Warblers have arrived with a handful of passage Wheaters, Common Sand's have taken up residence on No. 1 Pool and there's a couple of White Wag' records. The hot afternoons have been graced by lots of butterflies including Peacocks, Large White, Speckled Woods, Small Tortoishells and a single Common Blue. Looks like that first site record of Ring Ouzel will just have to wait ........Above: Oystercatcher and Tree Sparrow taken by the River Ribble adjacent to Brockholes.
