Fylde Feeding Stations
The Fylde Bird Club contributes funds and bird seed to projects within our recording area that are designed to supplement and enhance the amount of food available to local bird populations, particularly during the harder winter months when food is scarcer. In addition these projects are designed to provide birders with the opportunity to easily view a number of species that would otherwise by more difficult to find or observe; this is particularly true of our declining farmland species.
The three main projects that we are partnered with are detailed below. If you have a project that you believe would benefit from the addition of a seed feeding station and would like the input of the club then email us with the details.
The three main projects that we are partnered with are detailed below. If you have a project that you believe would benefit from the addition of a seed feeding station and would like the input of the club then email us with the details.
Bradshaw Lane and New Lane, Eagland Hill
The Fylde Bird Club contributes to the cost of seed deployed at two feeding stations in the Eagland Hill area of Over Wyre. These feeding stations are well known by locals and visiting birders alike as a fantastic spot to get views of some of our declining farmland species. Both stations attract Chaffinches and Tree Sparrows in large numbers along with smaller numbers of Yelllowhammer and Corn Bunting, whilst Brambling occasionally turn up in winter particularly at the New Lane station. Add in other species such as up to 20 Stock Doves, Red-legged Partridges and Reed Buntings and they can provide quite a spectacle.
If visiting the feeding stations near Pilling please remain in your vehicle, park sensibly and do not obstruct or walk down any farm tracks. Please make way for farm vehicles without delay. Thanks go to Bob Danson for the regular deployment of seed throughout the year.
In addition to putting out seed, in 2017 the club was successful in receiving a grant from Grantscape to plant single seed strips in the adjacent fields to both feeding stations in order to provide seed on standing crops to supplement food stocks for the wild birds during the winter. Despite difficulties in recording birds using the strips during the winter of 17/18 the project was deemed a success and bird numbers remained high throughout the winter months.
The Fylde Bird Club contributes to the cost of seed deployed at two feeding stations in the Eagland Hill area of Over Wyre. These feeding stations are well known by locals and visiting birders alike as a fantastic spot to get views of some of our declining farmland species. Both stations attract Chaffinches and Tree Sparrows in large numbers along with smaller numbers of Yelllowhammer and Corn Bunting, whilst Brambling occasionally turn up in winter particularly at the New Lane station. Add in other species such as up to 20 Stock Doves, Red-legged Partridges and Reed Buntings and they can provide quite a spectacle.
If visiting the feeding stations near Pilling please remain in your vehicle, park sensibly and do not obstruct or walk down any farm tracks. Please make way for farm vehicles without delay. Thanks go to Bob Danson for the regular deployment of seed throughout the year.
In addition to putting out seed, in 2017 the club was successful in receiving a grant from Grantscape to plant single seed strips in the adjacent fields to both feeding stations in order to provide seed on standing crops to supplement food stocks for the wild birds during the winter. Despite difficulties in recording birds using the strips during the winter of 17/18 the project was deemed a success and bird numbers remained high throughout the winter months.
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Todderstaffe Hall
Since 2002 the Fylde Bird Club, spearheaded by chairman Paul Slade, has been putting seed out on a small track at Todderstaffe Hall near the village of Singleton in the west of the Fylde. The project is credited with stabilising and increasing the population of Tree Sparrows at the site which has been supplemented through the erection of bird boxes in the woodland around the farm. Up to 30 Tree Sparrows can now regularly be seen coming to the seed along with a number of other farmland and garden species. Please observe only from the car to avoid disturbing the birds when they are at the seed.
From Singleton village take the B5266 southeast towards Hardhorn for just over one mile and pass underneath the railway bridge. After a further c180 yards the B5266 turns sharply to the right but here should turn left along a narrow road towards Todderstaffe Hall. After c500 yards there is an area of rough ground leading to the railway and it is here where the feeding station is situated by the hedge at grid reference SD368368.
Since 2002 the Fylde Bird Club, spearheaded by chairman Paul Slade, has been putting seed out on a small track at Todderstaffe Hall near the village of Singleton in the west of the Fylde. The project is credited with stabilising and increasing the population of Tree Sparrows at the site which has been supplemented through the erection of bird boxes in the woodland around the farm. Up to 30 Tree Sparrows can now regularly be seen coming to the seed along with a number of other farmland and garden species. Please observe only from the car to avoid disturbing the birds when they are at the seed.
From Singleton village take the B5266 southeast towards Hardhorn for just over one mile and pass underneath the railway bridge. After a further c180 yards the B5266 turns sharply to the right but here should turn left along a narrow road towards Todderstaffe Hall. After c500 yards there is an area of rough ground leading to the railway and it is here where the feeding station is situated by the hedge at grid reference SD368368.
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Marton Mere
The club contributes seed to keep the feeding station at Marton Mere fully stocked throughout the year. Situated at the west end of the mere from newly revampled the Woodland Watch Hide the feeders attracted a whole range of common woodland species, as well as some reedbed specialists such as Reed Bunting and the occasional Water Rail which can be seen picking about beneath the feeders during hard winters. The seed is kindly distriibuted by member and friend of the mere Mick McGough, as well as by the Marton Mere volunteer group led by ranger Rick Holmes.
The club contributes seed to keep the feeding station at Marton Mere fully stocked throughout the year. Situated at the west end of the mere from newly revampled the Woodland Watch Hide the feeders attracted a whole range of common woodland species, as well as some reedbed specialists such as Reed Bunting and the occasional Water Rail which can be seen picking about beneath the feeders during hard winters. The seed is kindly distriibuted by member and friend of the mere Mick McGough, as well as by the Marton Mere volunteer group led by ranger Rick Holmes.
