Dr Phil Smith Wildlife Notes: February
February 2022 will be remembered for a cluster of three named storms: Dudley, Eunice and Franklin, which arose…
Dr Phil Smith Wildlife Notes: January
Another month of record breaking weather started with the warmest New Year’s Day ever. It was also the…
Dr Phil Smith Wildlife Notes: December
December is usually one of the wetter months of the year, as was the case this time with 15 rain-days. Storm ‘Barra’ on 7th-8th produced high winds and heavy showers but was nothing like as damaging as named storm ‘Arwen’ in November.
Dr Phil Smith: Wildlife Notes November 2021
November is generally a quiet time for wildlife. However, Ian Wolfenden reported a huge movement of winter thrushes at Hightown on 4th. He estimated an extraordinary number of 5000 Fieldfares and 2000 Redwings flying north. Strong winds from the southwest on 6-7th brought in an unusual bounty from the tropics, John Dempsey finding a colourful Portuguese-Man-of-War and several By-the-wind-sailors on Ainsdale beach.