south walney island nature reserve...barrow-in-furness...(panasonic hdc sd60)
footage from a recent visit to south walney island nature reserve barrow-in-furness cumbria...for best quality,please watch in 1080p
Wonderful Walney Island, a ward of Beautiful Barrow-in-Furness, in Cumbria
Wonderful Walney Island, is a ward of Beautiful Barrow-in-Furness, in Cumbria, England. A town with a proud shipbuilding history. A tourist destination for the discerning traveler. So good is Barrow that the locals have a phrase, Love Barrow and they do. And why shouldn't they, just watch as they enjoy this stunning location in the heart of Furness. And once you are here, you will find it difficult to leave, trust me I have tried. With windsurfing, golf, fishing, sailing, boating, flying, cricket, Rugby, gliding to name but a few of the towns pastimes and with the Lake District as a backdrop, there is nowhere else I would rather visit. By the way, it is not always windy on Walney, even though it is called Windy Walney by some locals. But when the wind blows, the people come out to play. And the weather never stops the airfield from operating. While you are here visit our Docks Museum, Tourism at it's best, it's free, yes free parking and free entry. My trip cost me nothing thanks to the generosity of the local Authority and the long suffering Tax Payers. Barrow in Furness, the shining star of the United Kingdom. So if you want to go boating, kayaking or canoeing, gliding, sailing or have a light aircraft. This is the place for you. Visit Barrow, visit Walney Island. Thank You Barrow in Furness!!
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South Walney Nature Reserve
South Walney is one of two nature reserves on Walney Island, England. The nature reserve has an area of 130 ha. It has been managed by the Cumbria Wildlife Trust since 1963.[1] The reserve is notable for:
Gulls. There are lesser black backed gulls and herring gulls.[2] Numbers have declined considerably since the 1970s.[3]
Seals. It is the only grey seal colony in Cumbria.[4] Numbers have increased since the 1970s. Until recently South Walney was classed as a haul-out site rather than a breeding colony, but two pups were born there in 2015,[5][6] and five the following year.[citation needed]
The reserve is the home of the Walney Bird Observatory which collates bird records from across the island. Around 300 species of bird have been recorded on Walney Island since the foundation of the bird observatory in 1964.[7]
Grey seals can be seen at high tide year round at their only haul-out location in Cumbria
Breeding eider duck, great black-backed gull, oystercatcher, ringed plover, shelduck
In Spring - the time to see courting eider ducks and catch the returning spring migrants- wheatear, willow warbler and sandwich terns. Thrift and sea campion come into flower.
In summer - see nesting gulls, eiders, oystercatchers and ringed plovers. Arctic, little and sandwich terns are summer visitors; these agile seabirds can be seen fishing from Sea Hide. Burnet moths and grayling butterflies are on the wing and viper's bugloss, yellow horned poppy and sea lavender are in flower.
In Autumn - catch the flocks of migratory curlew, spotted redshank, redstart and pink-footed geese.
In winter - Huge numbers of waders and wildfowl feed and roost around the nature reserve.
Throughout the year look out for barn owls, short-eared owls and peregrines and grey seals at high tide.
Colony of seals (2)...south walney island nature reserve, barrow-in-furness
not sure whether these seals are here all the time, or whether I just got lucky, but this was the first time proper that I'd been to this reserve and had a good walk round, fantastic place, so peaceful and isolated.
Barrow-in-Furness then coming into Land at Walney
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Colony of seals...south walney island...barrow-in-furness
not sure whether these seals are here all the time, or whether I just got lucky, but this was the first time proper that I'd been to this reserve and had a good walk round, fantastic place, so peaceful and isolated...love the seal near the end who pops his head up, and looks as if to say,who the hell are you
South Walney Lagoons & Lighthouse Bay
This is why I moved to Walney.
The first piece of music is The Aviators by Helen Jane Long, and the second one is Anthem by Peter Kater.
For more information about the lagoons visit
UK BIG FREEZE BARROW-IN-FURNESS
The UK Big Freeze, a simoultaneous flashmob occurring in 25 towns and cities across the UK on Saturday 13th March 2010. This is the Barrow-in-Furness chapter.
Thanks to everyone who came along, it was a blast. Some of the comments from those passing by were hilarious - Ooh, are they alright? Why has everyone stopped? Is it a T-mobile ad? should we not be here? BIG THANKS to UK Organiser JOSH FORWOOD.
Walney Island and my hometown of Barrow-in-Furness.
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Grey Seals Compilation - South Walney Nature Reserve
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The British steamer, Anastasi...North Walney island, Barrow-in-Furness...Panasonic hdc sd60
The British steamer Anastasi was en route to the port of Barrow-in-Furness England, then to kilkeel Northern Ireland, when she ran aground on Christmas day 1946, there are no records of any crew being lost.The Anastasi is a 283 tons steamer built on the Clyde by Scott and sons of bowling Scotland.The wreck lies half a mile out to sea off the shore of north walney island and the remains of this vessel are still visible at low tide, but anyone thinking of paying a visit to the wreck site should think twice? i would suggest those that are not deterred must have both a good knowledge of the tide times and the sands around it, as this vessel has claimed a number of lives since it's demise.
Knots at South Walney Nature Reserve in Cumbria
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Anastasi, North Walney Island , Barrow-in-Furness August 2013
Shipwreck on North Walney Island Anastasi some underwater Filming
Flying Over Walney Island Barrow In Furness
Flight Sim X Flying Over Walney Island Barrow In Furness
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The Seals of South Walney Comp
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Seal Release at South Walney Nature Reserve
Short video of the release of the seal we rescued from Milburn Beck near Appleby in Westmorland. How it had travelled down the Eden to that point is anyones guess. Our British Diver Marine Life Rescue trained Mammal Medics caught the seal and took it out to Walney Island to release it
fishing boat off walney island, barrow-in-furness (panasonic hdc sd60)
i think this video shows what this camcorder is capable of.
Flying from the Lakes over Ulverston, Piel Castle and Walney South
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BKSA 2010 walney island, barrow-in-furness (friday) (panasonic hdc sd60)
british kitesurfing championship 2010...walney island, barrow-in-furness.
WWII Air Raid Shelter Walney Island
Walney Island was home to two of Britain's many coastal artillery installations: The Hilpsord Fort on the south of the island - where the nature reserve is today, and Fort Walney to the north; described in the newspaper article below left, and now lost beneath Barrow's golf-links. Fortunately, an aerial photograph of 1940 exists, as do plans of the battery encampment. The architecture - at least of the remaining WWII searchlight positions - was similar to the batteries at Whitehaven and Workington. The WWII battery at Fort Walney was preceeded by coastal defences constructed in July 1911 and manned by the Lancashire and Cheshire Royal Garrison Artillery. The construction and initial testing of the 1911 battery is recorded in the article (left), and reprinted in its entirity with kind permission of the North West Evening Mail. It originally appeared in the July 29th 1911 edition of the Barrow Guardian. Many thanks to David Parkin who provided photographs of Hilpsford Fort and notes, and Peter Cobb, who provided vital information appertaining to the Walney Island Defences.
The Earnse Point searchlight emplacements near North Scale (one is shown) were constructed as part of the original battery, but were modified for use during WWII. Construction was of a finer quality than the more austere WWII installations, and their vintage is given away by the sloping crown of the roof above the opening. This had the effect of ricocheting any shells away which might happen to land there. Inside, part of the steel door and sliding shuttering remains, and it can be seen where the rheostat and switchgear were attached to the wall. Small holes in the crown and side-wall were to allow heat to escape from the powerful arc-lamp and the stove, provided to afford a degree of comfort for the crew.
The BOP (Battery Observation Post) is currently used as a coast-guard look-out. The original observation gallery has been bricked up, and is discernible in both photographs. It is likely that the building is concrete, with the brick finish actually forming the shuttering. The roof of the BOP (where the little CG look-out box is) may have been used by the Royal Observer Corps during WWII, as it is on the same site as the UKWMO post. The post on the top of the BOP looks like a siren-mounting post.
The 29mm 'Blacker Bombard' spigot-mortar post is located such that it might have been used as an anti-shipping device as well as anti-tank. If this is so, it is the most northern anti-shipping spigot-mortar post unearthed to date (a title previously given to the Hilpsford Fort spigot-mortar described later). A War-Department boundary stone can bee seen in the spigot-mortar photograph which includes the BOP.
There are several 'Vickers-Armstrong' fire-watchers' posts dotted around the golf-links, two of which feature on this page. It is unclear whether they are located in their original positions
There are two pill-boxes extant at Walney Fort, and they feature a very unusual loop-hole arrangement. The pill-boxes look like the normal type F/W 24, but the loop-holes are in the angle between faces, rather than the faces themselves. There are also larger holes beneath, in the faces. The pill-box immediately below still has the blast wall intact, and is punctuated with irregular holes where twigs were placed during construction to aid camouflage. A metal bracket on top of the entrance blast-wall was used for attachment to a camouflage net. Both pill-boxes have been bricked up