Andrew Chick
@apcbirding.bsky.social
Mostly Cumbria, mostly birds and plants …but also 🌼🦡🦇🐸🐍🪷🦋🍄🕷️ http://www.forktail.co.uk
Grey Chi – An Autumn Moth of the North-West forktail.co.uk/2026/08/22/g...
Grey Chi – An Autumn Moth of the North-West
The Grey Chi (Antitype chi) is one of those moths that feels particularly at home in the north-west of Britain. While many familiar garden moths are widespread throughout the country, Grey Chi has …
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Cumbrian Bird's-nest Orchids @wildflowerhour.bsky.social No green bits needed at all, as it gets all it nourishment from soil mycorrhizae, and it's pollinated by flies and ants!
Cumbrian Moonwort – one of Britain's most mysterious plants.. 🌿✨ #Moonwort #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #Botany #PlantLore #WildflowerHour
Lots of Little Gull action today on the Lancashire coast line... At least five at RSPB Marshside... Great little birds!
POW - Picture of the Week - Male Redstart near The Nest Cafe at Thurstaston on the Wirral.... #wirralbirding 14/04/26
03/04/2026 A morning at #StAidansRSPB Reserve, a site that embodies an inspirational concept of industrial rejuvenation & ecological restoration! Booming Bitterns, grebes & much much more - well done #RSPB great work!
A real highlight from RSPB Leighton Moss on 31st March, an incredibly acrobatic 1st winter Little Gull twisting and turning over the reserve. Light as a feather and full of energy, giving brilliant views as it fed on the wing. A proper spring treat! 🐦✨ #LeightonMoss #Birding #LancashireBirding
A bit of Cumbrian adder action, two males taking advantage of a brief break in the cloud cover 30.03.26 @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social
Greater Painted Snipe!!! It’s been a very long wait, but I’ve finally managed to see one of these incredible birds… 😊 forktail.co.uk/2026/02/13/w... #Birds #Birding #GambiaBirds
A really approachable Great White Egret at Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria this afternoon..
“AI, could you remove the foliage so I can see the bird better?” “Ah, perfect, thanks!” 🦉
Four of the six Bewick’s Swans leaving the overnight roost at Deeping Lakes LWT, Lincolnshire this morning (06/01/26). A lovely winter sight. 🦢❄️
Deeping Lakes: Many of the c.150 Whooper Swans were standing on thin ice, 2 with white rings. Both originally ringed Sandvatn, Mývatnsheiði in 2023. Today’s sighting represents the 1st sighting of 36C since 2024, while 34F has previously been recorded at Crowland and Welney @waterbirdcm.bsky.social
Found this striking partial-albino male Blackbird today at Bowness-on-Windermere… 23.12.25
Autumn in Cumbria means one thing… Whooper Swans are on the move! 🦢🍂 Graceful flocks are arriving to spend the winter gracing our lakes and wetlands, a truly magical sight. #Birding #CumbriaBirds #WhooperSwans
Among Britain’s industrial relics, few plants are as evocative as Spring Sandwort (Sabulina verna). This tiny, starry wildflower marks old mine spoil, telling a story of metal, geology & human endeavour. 📸 NE Cumbria, Nov 2025 #wildflowerhour
Troutbeck River in full spate after overnight rain…. #cumbria #LakeDistrict
Some Bird Magic — the Rutland Baird’s Sandpiper pulls a classic disappearing act… straight up the barrel of a camera lens! Maybe a bit of overkill on the size of lens required! 🎩🔫📸 #ukbirding #BirdingUK #RareBirdUK
A flash of turquoise cutting across the rising mega tide at Barrow-in-Furness this morning... @cumbriabirdclub.bsky.social
Roosecote Sands, Barrow this morning, 153 Pale-bellied Brent Geese feeding, c500+ Pink-foot south in several flocks and this crazy leucistic Curlew…. #birds #cumbriabirds
Bold blues and brash calls.... the Steller’s Jay never blends into the background. A true forest trickster, curious, noisy, and impossible to ignore. 🌲💙 #Birds #StellersJay
Forest gamebirds with very different styles 🌲🪶 The Ruffed Grouse drums on logs with rapid wingbeats, a heartbeat of the woods. The Sooty Grouse booms deep calls through mountain forests, echoing like distant drums. #Birds #CanadianBirds #Birding
Master of the skies 🦅 The Osprey dives with pinpoint precision, snatching its prey straight from the water. A true symbol of wild rivers and coasts. #BirdsOfPrey #Osprey #WildlifePhotography #CanadianBirds #Birds
Tiny, bold, and with a voice like a toy horn 🚗🎺 the Red-breasted Nuthatch is a master climber, walking headfirst down tree trunks in search of insects & seeds. A splash of rusty-orange chest + a bold eye stripe make it unmistakable! #birds #birdingcanada #CanadianBirds
Between tarmac & pasture, a wall-top blooms with Bird’s-foot Trefoil, Harebell, ferns and fine grasses. A narrow ribbon of biodiversity squeezed between two low-diversity landscapes. #WildflowerHour #Biodiversity #Cumbria forktail.co.uk/2025/08/27/a...
A Ribbon of Wildness Between Road and Pasture
At first glance, the scene is an ordinary roadside wall – a strip of stone edging the tarmac footpath, with a fence and pasture beyond. Yet the top of this wall tells a richer, more hopeful story. …
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A quiet visitor this morning – a fine adult Roe Deer buck standing just beyond our Lake District garden, alert and watchful in the misty light. 🦌✨ #LakeDistrict #Wildlife
A splash of colour in the autumn garden 🍂💙 This juvenile Blue Tit is still finding its way among the fading leaves here in our Lake District garden. #Birdwatching #LakeDistrict #BlueTit
