A selection of photographs of Fylde birders in action



Frank Bird Fylde Pelagic 22nd July (Paul Ellis)




Fylde Pelagic 22nd July (Paul Ellis)




Chris Batty chumming Fylde Pelagic 22nd July (Paul Ellis)
Thanks to Chris Batty, Ellen Pemberton and Jonathan Scragg for providing the chum.




Chris Batty finds missing underwear Fylde Pelagic 22nd July (Paul Ellis)




Fylde Pelagic 22nd July (Paul Ellis)



Stuart Piner Fylde Pelagic 22nd July (Paul Ellis)



Fylde Pelagic 22nd July (Paul Ellis)




Fylde Pelagic 22nd July 2010 (Stuart Piner)

View videos from the first pelagic here and here




Fylde Pelagic 22nd July 2010 (Chris Batty)




Fylde Pelagic 22nd July 2010 (Stuart Piner)




Paul Ellis photographing Paul Slade's ear





Paul Ellis installing artificial nest sites for Common Terns at Preston Dock.
The Fylde Bird Club has finally found a use for committee members' spare tyres.
30th April 2010 (Paul Slade)




Paul Ellis installing artificial nest sites for Common Terns at Preston Dock
30th April 2010 (Paul Slade)




Paul Ellis installing artificial nest sites for Common Terns at Preston Dock
30th April 2010 (Paul Slade)




Kinta Beaver, Ellen Pemberton and Christopher Piner at the Marton Mere Work Party
21st March (Stuart Piner)




Ellen Pemberton, Paul Slade, Paul Ellis, Chris Batty, Christopher Piner, Brian Gregory, Kinta Beaver and Stuart Piner at the Marton Mere Work Party
21st March




Paul Ellis in the new Fylde Bird Club Hide scrape at the Marton Mere Work Party
21st March (Kinta Beaver)




Bob Danson erecting a Little Owl box at Crawley Cross Farm, Pilling
(Barry Dyson)




Bob Danson and Chris Batty releasing a Sedge Warbler at Fluke Hall
1991 (Barry Dyson)




Bob Danson showing Chris Batty a Barn Owl
1989 (Barry Dyson)




Frank Bird at Marton Mere LNR
March 2010 (Jim Clift)




Maurice Jones and Stuart Meredith at Warton Bank
March 2010 (Jim Clift)
 



Marton Mere LNR Fylde Bird Club Work Party
21st February 2010 (Stuart Piner)

View videos of the Marton Mere Fylde Bird Club Work Party here, here, here and here.




Paul Ellis at the Marton Mere LNR Fylde Bird Club Work Party
21st February 2010 (Paul Slade)




Bear Grylls and Kinta Beaver at the Marton Mere LNR Fylde Bird Club Work Party
21st February 2010 (Stuart Piner)




Marton Mere LNR Fylde Bird Club Work Party
21st February 2010 (Stuart Piner)




Kinta Beaver and Paul Slade at the Marton Mere LNR Fylde Bird Club Work Party
21st February 2010 (Stuart Piner)





Marton Mere LNR Fylde Bird Club Work Party
21st February 2010 (Paul Slade)




Marton Mere LNR Fylde Bird Club Work Party
21st February 2010 (Paul Slade)




Marton Mere LNR Fylde Bird Club Work Party
21st February 2010 (Paul Slade)




Marton Mere LNR Fylde Bird Club Work Party
21st February 2010 (Paul Slade)




Marton Mere LNR Fylde Bird Club Work Party
21st February 2010 (Paul Slade)




Marton Mere LNR Fylde Bird Club Work Party
21st February 2010 (Paul Ellis)




Marton Mere LNR Fylde Bird Club Work Party
21st February 2010 (Paul Ellis)




Marton Mere LNR Fylde Bird Club Work Party
21st February 2010 (Paul Ellis)





Len Knowles watching a Short-ared Owl near Braides Farm
6th February 2010 (Jim Clift)

 



Kinta Beaver and Paul Ellis (with Dave Clark) at Cley, Norfolk
1980 (Frank Cordingley)

 



Maurice Jones and Alan Hinchliffe (with Len Knowles and Harry Shorrock) at Cockersand
30th January 2010 (Jim Clift)





Paul Ellis building a bird box
(Paul Slade)

 



Paul Ellis Marton Mere
17th January 2010 (Jim Clift)

 



Goose counters 
c1982 (Paul Slade)

 



Chris Batty and Stuart Piner (with Andrew Holden) near Aousserd, Western Sahara
12th December 2009 (Andy Clifton)
 



Chris Batty (with Richard Bonser and Andrew Holden) in Kuwait
April 2007 (Andy Clifton)

 

Frank Bird at the Thornton ICI Reservoir Ring-necked Duck twitch
29th December 2009 (Stuart Piner)
 



Paul Slade, Paul Ellis and Chris Batty at the Thornton ICI Reservoir Ring-necked Duck twitch
29th December 2009 (Stuart Piner)
 



Paul Slade, Paul Ellis and Chris Batty at the Thornton ICI Reservoir Ring-necked Duck twitch
29th December 2009 (Stuart Piner)
 



Pete Scholes and Pat Davies in Thailand
1989 (Paul Slade)
 



Boyzone
1989
 

Seumus Eaves, Roger Scholes, Ian Gardner, Tony Myerscough, Pete Scholes and Pat Davies aboard the Fylde Bird Club pelagic
1980s (Paul Slade)
 



Chris Batty (with Andrew Holden and Peter Gluth) watching Cricket Longtails near Aousserd, Western Sahara
12th December 2009 (Stuart Piner)




Chris Batty (with Andrew Holden and Andy Clifton) celebrating finding the first Pied Crows for Morocco (and the first to have been found in the Western Palearctic since 1964), 152km northeast of Dakhla, Western Sahara
13th December 2009 (Stuart Piner)

 

Paul Slade at Todderstaffe Hall
(Paul Ellis)

 

Len Knowles at Warton Crag, Lancashire
28th November 2009 (Jim Clift)

 

Peter Webb at the Weaver Bend, Frodsham, Cheshire
(Jim Clift)


Paul Morgan at the Weaver Bend, Frodsham, Cheshire
(Jim Clift)


Roger Scholes aboard the Fleetwood Nautical College Training Vessel, Morecambe Bay
1980s (Jim Clift)


Peter Webb on  Hermaness, Unst, Shetland
23rd May 1987 (Jim Clift)
 

Stan Craig with a Little Owl
(Jim Clift)
 

Dave Pitman, Jackie Hinnells and Paul Ellis in Venezuela
1994 (Jim Clift)
 

Dave Pitman, Jackie Hinnells, Rob Hunt, Stephen and Elise O'Donnell in Venezuela
1994 (Jim Clift)
 

Paul Ellis and Dave Pitman on the Guyanan Trail river crossing in Venezuela
1994 (Jim Clift)
 

Jim Clift with Scilly Shrew Tresco, Isles of Scilly
1981
 

Stan Craig, Monty Myerscough, Frank Bird and Alan Dawe at Starr Gate
(Jim Clift)
 

Don Wright, Harry Shorrock and Len Blacow at Stodmarsh NNR, Kent
(Jim Clift)
 

Don Wright, Maurice Jones and Stephen O'Donnell in the Eel's Foot Pub, Lowestoft, Suffolk
celebrating successfully twitching the second-winter Franklin's Gull in Lowestoft
2nd January 1978 (Jim Clift)

 

Frank Walsh, Dave Tucker and Don Wright at Preston Society Meeting in the Blue Bell Pub, Church Street, Preston
(Jim Clift)
 



Don Wright, Jim Clift and Maurice Jones twitching three Ring-necked Ducks at Abberton Reservoir, Essex
1978
 

Jim Clift at the Arctic Warbler twitch at Hartlepool, Cleveland
1st September 1991
 

Geoff Whilby, Malcolm Evans, Roy Leeming, Paul Morgan, David Jackson, Alan Dawe, John Fletcher and Millie Mottram seawatching at Spurn Point, East Yorkshire
(Jim Clift)

 



Len Blacow, Alan Dawe, Roy Leeming, Malcolm Evans and Peter Webb seawatching at Flamborough Head, East Yorkshire
September 1989 (Jim Clift)
 



Maurice Jones at Belhaven Beach
, Belhaven Bay, Lothian, Scotland
December 1976 (Jim Clift)
 



Fylde Bird Club pelagic aboard Fleetwood Nautical College Training Vessel, Morecambe Bay
1980s (Jim Clift)
 



Dave Pitman
November 1991 (Jim Clift)
 



Barry Dyson, Len Blacow Stuart Gibson and Phil Slade, Pink-footed Goose counting at Cogie Hill, Fylde
22nd November 1981 (Jim Clift)
 



Len Blacow and Alan Dawe seawatching at Flamborough Head, East Yorkshire
September 1989 (Jim Clift)
 



Maurice Jones (right) and Harry Shorrock at Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland looking for the Barrow's Goldeneye
30th December 1979 (Jim Clift)
 



Jim Clift, Dave Pitman, Jackie Hinnells and Elise O'Donnell at Demirkazik, Turkey
May 1996 (Stephen O'Donnell)

 



Dave Pitman in Israel
March 1995 (Jim Clift)
 



Len Blacow at Rossall Point, Fylde
December 1991 (Jim Clift)




Roy Leeming, Malcolm Evans, Maurice Whilby and Monty Myerscough, at the Bridled Tern twitch at Cemlyn Bay, Anglesey
July 1988 (Jim Clift)
 



Roy Leeming, Malcolm Evans, Maurice Whilby and Monty Myerscough, at the Bridled Tern twitch at Cemlyn Bay, Anglesey
July 1988 (Jim Clift)




Roy Leeming, Malcolm Evans, Maurice Whilby and Monty Myerscough, at the Bridled Tern twitch at Cemlyn Bay, Anglesey
July 1988 (Jim Clift)
 



Maurice Jones aboard the Scillonian pelagic,
Western Approaches
31st August 1988 (Jim Clift)
 

Buff-breasted Sandpiper twitch at Pilling Lane Ends, Fylde
October 1992 (Jim Clift)
 



Len Blacow, Frank Bird, Richard Hall, Paul Slade, Phil Slade seawatching at Starr Gate, Fylde
September 1978 (Jim Clift)





Stuart Gibson, Alan Hinchliffe, Barry Dyson, Phil Slade, Frank Bird and Len Blacow on an inter-island boat on Isles of Scilly
1980s

 

Barry Dyson and Chris Batty at the Fairhaven Lake Shag
27th October 2009 (Jim Clift)
 



Chris Batty photographing the Fairhaven Lake Shag
27th October 2009 (Jim Clift)





Barry Dyson and Chris Batty at the Fairhaven Lake Shag
27th October 2009 (Jim Clift)

 



A 17 year old Jim Clift at Leighton Moss RSPB

 



Greater Snow Goose twitch at Eagland Hill
January 1985 (Jim Clift)

 



Ian Gardner, Chris Batty and Barry Dyson
Little Bunting twitch at Knott End
26th November 2008 (Stuart Piner)

 



Frank Bird (left)
Long-billed Dowitcher twitch at Cockersand
14th October 2009 (Jim Clift)

 



Chris Batty photographing a juvenile Iceland Gull at Knott End
5th February 2008 (Stuart Piner)





Frank Bird, Maurice Jones and Barry Dyson
Great White Egret twitch at Freckleton Naze
18th September (Stuart Piner)





Yellow-browed Warbler twitchers
Rossall Beach
19th September (Stuart Piner)





Bob Stinger, Len Blacow, Frank Bird and Frank Walsh
Rossall Point
21st September 2004 (Chris Batty)

A big day seawatch from the coastguards' tower; highlights included two Long-tailed Skuas, three Sabine's Gulls and a Storm Petrel.

 

Building the Fylde Bird Club Hide
Evening Gazette 7th April 1999