What’s OnBlackburn & District Camera Club

Weekly Guide to Events & Activities

What’s On November 19th

This Week’s Cover ImageBit of a Squeeze by Andy Philips

Blackburn & District Camera ClubFeniscowles Methodist Church HallPreston Old RoadBlackburnBB2 5EP

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ContentsClub Meetings

Trips and ActivitiesOther Events

How you can HelpWeb site Galleries

News Events and ActivitiesFrom Blackburn & District Camera Club

November21st Lecture

Jeff CowlingFrom Grindleton will presentselection of AVs of his travels

Jeff has spent many of the 45 yearsdoing voluntary work in east, andsouth west of Africa, he spentseveral years involved with the goldmining industry of this vast andvibrant country.

Jeff is a good speaker and it will bean entertaining evening.

28 Members eveningMichael Green

Followed by the L &CPU NatureFolio

MeetingsWe meet each Monday evening at7.30pm (except Bank Holidays) atFeniscowles Methodists Churchon Preston Old Rd, Blackburn .

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December5 Elimination Contest

Please bring eight mounted prints tobe judged on the night. After eachround some prints will be removedand their authors will take no morepart. The remaining authors presentanother print and the processrepeats until only one print remains.There will be also be a competitionfor digital images, details will begiven closer to the time

12 Presidents EveningJudith Marr

Will be entertaining us. Will membersplease submit up to 8 of your bestdigital images of the year to MickPark humorous and light-heartedimages are especially welcome.These will we presented on 19December

19th Free & Easy Night

Pie and Peas Supper Results ofMission Impossible 11 and apresentation of members best light-hearted images of the year

Sunday 20thNovember10:00 am Skippool Creek,Thornton, Nr Cleveleys

Tucked away in a bend in theWyre estuary stands SkippoolCreek.

A scene that has little changedsince the 1900′s.

Skippool Creek was first settledby the Saxons ,its name derivingfrom the Saxon word skiffs.

The area came to prominence inthe 1700′s when it was the main

port on the River Wyre before thedevelopment of Fleetwood.Ships of up to200 tonnes would unload cargoes fromaround the world with flax and cotton forthe Lancashire mills.

It was also renowned as a centre forcockfighting as well as being a haunt for

smugglers and press gangs looking forrecruits for the Royal navy.

The opening of the railway to Fleetwood in1840 quickly brought about the demise ofthe creek.

Info provided by Northwest Scenes

http://visitnorthwest.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/a-visit-to-skippool-creek/

Skippool Creek is where theMain Dyke flows into the WyreEstuary west of Shard Bridge.

Access to the area can beviewed from Wyre Road,Skippool and the public footpathbetween Old Mains Lane and

Trips & Outings

Shard Bridge. The east side of the rivercan be viewed from the public footpathbetween Shard Bridge and SaltmarshLane, Hambleton.

The mudflats and south banks provide afeeding area and nocturnal roost forwaders and wildfowl. The best times to

visit are at two hours before high tide orone hour after high tide to low water.

In winter large flocks of Lapwing, Curlewand Redshank are joined by Dunlin,Ringed Plover and Black-tailed Godwit.Shelduck and Mallard are the commonestof the wildfowl with a few Teal oftenpresent.

Spring and autumn migration bringsvarying numbers of Ringed Plover, Dunlin,Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank,Whimbrel and Common Sandpiper. Insome autumns parties of Little Stint andCurlew Sandpiper are seen withoccasional Ruff and Spotted Redshank.

The gathering of gulls on the sandbankshere sometimes contain rarer species;Mediterranean Gull is regular

The saltmarshes attract flocks of finchesand skylarks with smaller numbers of

pipits and wagtails. These are best seenon high tides from the footpath leadingsouth from Hambleton. Choose a veryhigh tide, arrive early and watch for thebirds as they are moved by the incomingtide. Water Pipits are sometimes seenamongst the Rock Pipits, and Jack Snipeoften accompany the Snipe.

The whole area attracts raptors with Per-egrine, Merlin and Sparrowhawk are seenirregularly during most winters.

Past rarities include redhead Smew, LittleEgret, White-rumped Sandpiper (twice),Great Knot and 3 Ring-billed Gulls.

NovemberOn Sunday, November20th 10am-4pm

Accrington Camera Club have

Margaret Salisbury FRPS, APAGB,EFIAP, FIPF Colin New

Admission by Ticket only. FromHarry Emmett 01254 387901 orJohn Barton ARPS 01254 388820

Other EventsSkippool Creek –DirectionsJoin M6 north and turn onto M55

Leave M55 @ Junction 3 and turn right onto theA585 sign posted Fleetwood

At the traffic Lights with a glass statue on the left –turn left.

Stay on this road but as you approach the trafficlights make sure that you get into the right handlane. As you turn to the right you are still on theA585

Please watch your speed –there are several speedcameras on this stretch of road. Carry on through aset of traffic lights and the village of Singleton(Could it be Bobs place) Follow the Skippool Creekbrown Information sign turning right at theroundabout.

Immediately after the roundabout takethe first turning right passing a pub onyour left called the Thornton Lodge.Continue down this narrow road untilyou see a large ‘free car park on yourleft.

Approx 30 miles from Blackburn

December11Martin Mere 2:00pm for the dusk flight

We hope that by producing What's On we introduce younot only to the activities provided by the club but also toother opportunities to get out and about to takephotographs or to see exhibitions or listen to interestingspeakers.

However we can only do this if we know what is goingon outside the club.

The website now includes two additional features thefirst is a calendar which incorporates not only thesyllabus but other events and the second is a guide tolocal events provided by an outside source, and ournew Weather Forecast Gizmo.

We need input from you to keepWhat's On and the calendar up-to-date.

If you learn of anything which might be of interest toother members whether it be somewhere to go orsomething to see please let us know.

For general events and photo opportunities pleaseemail the details to our events coordinator StewardElliott. wildprophotos@yahoo.co.uk

For other stuff please e-mail it to mesecretary@bandd.cc

Finally you will see that Andy Philips has provided thisweek’s cover.

He has supplied me with some more images and thereare always my threatened holiday snaps to fill in.

However I am sure that there is someone else out therewho would like to have their image on the cover and ifyou would send me an image you have every chanceof it being used next week.

The image should be about 1500 pixels wide. What'sOn is landscape format and therefore landscapeimages are preferred you will also note that type isplaced to the bottom right-hand corner so please takethat into account when choosing the photograph.

Help

Web Site GalleriesUnfortunately we had to disable member’s direct access to post images to galleries forsecurity reasons.

However we now have a solution and you can once again create galleries and add andremove images.

John Murray has agreed to administer the galleries so all you need to do is email the photosto him

He has created an email address specifically for the use of Gallery entry requests which is:

gallery.banddcc@btinternet.com

Please use this address for all gallery communications to make John’s task as easy as wecan.

If you haven’t been to the website recently have a look and you will see some very goodwork in the members galleries - all listed under a tab on the front page