Andrew Chick

Notts Bee-eater action 27/06/2017....(handheld point-&-click - no big lens needed...) #parkinthefieldnotontheroad it's only a £5!

16/03/25 In Skiddaw Forest to visit Cumbria Wildlife Trust 3,000 acres for peatland & temperate rainforest restoration. A rare & transformative opportunity for upland recovery! Sadly, the motorbikes on Great Calva, damaging the fragile habitat, clearly hadn’t got the message!

Joined BlueSky Socials 12th Nov 2024….

Please consider helping to secure Skiddaw Forest - an extraordinary opportunity for nature cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/skiddaw-forest

Unringed White Stork foraging on the A590 roundabout at Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria (27/08/24).... clearly just walked out of the South Lakes Safari Zoo…

An unexpected visitor in the kitchen last night - Oak Eggar moth… stunning!

@MattStaniek @Feargal_Sharkey @CraigBennett3 @ChrisGPackham Great day out….. great crowd effort ❤️

The streets of Windermere are full

Dusky Grouse with chicks and Black Bears…. #whistler 🇨🇦

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Rocky birding 🇨🇦

Now that’s what I call a campsite list…. 🇨🇦

Spruce Grouse and Clark’s Nutcracker and Rocky Mountain Goat…. 🇨🇦

Wilson’s Phalarope, feeding at the snout of the Athabasca Glacier in the Canadian Rockies 🇨🇦

Frank Lake, High River, Calgary 🇨🇦 2 hours, 46 species and 13 lifers… that’s what you call a good start!

Barrow Wildlife: Dingy Skipper, Large Skipper, Bee Orchid and Northern Marsh Orchid. Nice stuff from Cumbria @cumbriawildlife

☀️ Globeflower, Windermere Cumbria 02.06.24 @BSBIbotany @wildflower_hour

I check 78 of my Lake District nestboxes yesterday and had Pied Fly in 15. I recorded my 1st Pied Fly on 30th Apr and by 31st May 3 broods were ready for ringing, 11 had chick’s too small to ring and one was still on eggs… (Also BT 26, GT 6, NH 1 and Empty 30) @CumbriaBirdClub

St Cuthbert’s churchyard Kentmere, a sea of Pignut, Meadow Buttercup & Red Clover…. @wildflower_hour @BSBIbotany 🌺 ❤️ 🌱

Nightingale singing from impenetrable blackthorn in the middle of the day (well at 16.15hrs)….

A morning bird surveying @DysonFarming Roxholme, Lincs. First impressions are of an open landscape, but the secret to this site are the mature/wide herb rich margins; 4pr breeding Grey Partridge, 10 singing Corn Buntings, Yellowhammer, Skylark, Linnet and a lone male Peregrine….

2nd BBS visit to @DysonFarming Bonby Carrs this morning (40 species) with the wet spring legacy including breeding Shoveler, Shelduck, c.5 pairs of Lapwing & a pair of Oystercatcher. Also BOCC RED Cuckoo, Corn bunting, Yellowhammer, Yellow Wagtail & Skylarks.