Black necked Grebes still present 7pm pushed to the west end of the res by the boats and quite close for fairly decent pics.
Gordon Taylor said
Wed Aug 20 6:25 PM, 2014
Three Black Necked Grebe still showing on the far side opposite the Yacht Club at 16:00.
Richard Thew said
Wed Aug 20 3:31 PM, 2014
From 10am to 12pm. 3 black necked grebes (non breeding type plumage), 1 juvenile ruff very close near carpark side, loads of juvenile sandmartins, pied and grey wagtails. Looks like migration is now underway, lets hope autumn will be as good as spring was!!
Alan Flavell said
Wed Aug 20 3:26 PM, 2014
9.40a.m. to 12.40p.m.
Three Black-necked Grebes close to the pump house when I first arrived. Ruff moving between between the wader point and the sailing club. Yellow-billed Pintail among Mallards near the sailing club managed to see most of the ring numbers on the bird's leg it looks like 2347K1018AV1010.
Karen Foulkes said
Wed Aug 20 3:07 PM, 2014
The three Black-necked Grebes still present at 13:55.
Info thanks to Phil Kelly
Paul Wilson said
Wed Aug 20 9:00 AM, 2014
brian fielding wrote:
3 black-necked grebes, ruff, green sandpiper and 2 yellow wagtails so far this morning.
Thanks for the text Brian - I still needed Ruff for my Elton life list. There's some good stuff turning up at Elton at the moment. Shame I'm stuck having to go to work!
brian fielding said
Wed Aug 20 7:29 AM, 2014
3 black-necked grebes, ruff, green sandpiper and 2 yellow wagtails so far this morning.
brian fielding said
Tue Aug 19 10:13 AM, 2014
3 more spotted flycatchers and garden warbler nr pumphouse
brian fielding said
Tue Aug 19 9:46 AM, 2014
good morning so far with 1 ruff, 1 green sandpiper, 1 little ringed plover, 5 curlew, 1 yellow wagtail, 1 redstart, 1 spotted flycatcher plus snipe, oystercatcher and yellow billed pintail.
Simon Warford said
Mon Aug 18 1:41 PM, 2014
Possibly two Little Egrets this morning around 7am, the one I tracked flew in from Within's and flew east over Old Hall Farm, and Ian's could have been a different bird as his was slightly earlier than this and seemed to fly over the field side. Green Sandpiper was on the shoreline near the creek, also a Raven flew over and several Swift present.
-- Edited by Simon Warford on Monday 18th of August 2014 01:42:04 PM
brian fielding said
Mon Aug 18 7:06 AM, 2014
little egret and green sandpiper early morning, info thanks to ian peters
Paul Wilson said
Sun Aug 17 10:44 AM, 2014
6.00 to 10.00 with Steve H.
Highlights: 1 Green Sandpiper, landed in overflow briefly the flew to the steam that runs through the marsh. 2 Yellow Wagtail 1 Yellow-billed Pintail near wall near pump house. 4 Linnets Plenty of Swallows and Sand Martins. Also more House Martins than there has been recently. A handful of Swift also.
steven burke said
Sat Aug 16 10:03 PM, 2014
9.15-12.30pm
1 female redstart, on the wire fence on the south east facing side of redstart hedge (out of the wind), found just before 10am. 1 green sandpiper, on flood of water next to the canal, almost opposite crow trees farm. 1 female wheatear, below pumphouse 5 goosanders, over south 30+ mistle thrushes yellow-billed pintail 1 grey wagtail 1 whitethroat 2 willow warblers 3 linnets sand martins, swallows, few swifts & house martins over res plus usuals
Rob Creek said
Sat Aug 16 4:42 PM, 2014
I see it now, at Withins, thanks Keith.
Keith Mills said
Sat Aug 16 4:33 PM, 2014
''Redstart hedge'' is shown on the Elton Site Guide, by Simon Warford. On the main Manchester Birding site Rob...
Rob Creek said
Sat Aug 16 3:06 PM, 2014
Ian McKerchar wrote:
Female Redstart in Redstart Hedge at 10am this morning.
Info thanks to Steven Burke
Where is Redstart Hedge? Thanks for any info.
Paul Wilson said
Sat Aug 16 11:25 AM, 2014
6.30-10.30
No sign of any Redstarts for me! Must have spent 30 minutes at "Redstart hedge" this morning, but Robins were the only "red" things I saw.
Did have a few decent birds though:
1 Stock Dove 2 Sparrowhawk (plus 1 eating a Blackbird in the garden when I got home) 1 Hobby 6 LBB Gulls 1 Common Gull 1 Yellow Wagtail (with 20 Starlings, in field with cattle) 8 Willow Warbler 1 Oystercatcher 2 House Martins (amongst c100 Sand Martins and c50 Swallows) 1 Yellow-billed Pintail (near car park) 113 Coots (I got bored)
Ian McKerchar said
Sat Aug 16 10:23 AM, 2014
Female Redstart in Redstart Hedge at 10am this morning.
Info thanks to Steven Burke
brian fielding said
Fri Aug 15 3:09 PM, 2014
0615 till 0815 1 yellow wagtail 1 wheatear 1 common tern 100+lapwings 10 swift yellow-billed pintail back on res this morning.
George Warburton said
Fri Aug 15 9:35 AM, 2014
On Wed 13th the Yellow-billed Pintail was in the bay on the North side close to the shore. I directed a local couple to it and when I saw them again, 30 minutes later, they said that the bird had swum towards them, exited the water and approached them on foot.
John Doherty said
Fri Aug 15 7:27 AM, 2014
Or back to its cage in a Radcliffe garden Sally the Cinnamon Teal and Mandy the Mandarin were pining for him :=)
Rob Creek said
Thu Aug 14 7:58 PM, 2014
brian fielding wrote:
no sign of yellow-billed pintail for 2 days now.
...could well have flown back to South America Brian!
brian fielding said
Thu Aug 14 4:11 PM, 2014
0615 till 0815 2 yellow wagtail, female and juvenile nr pumphouse amongst lots of pied and grey wagtails 1 common sandpiper 1 common tern 4 snipe over 1 rook over 1 stock dove 1 swift 1 willow tit no sign of yellow-billed pintail for 2 days now.
brian fielding said
Tue Aug 12 10:01 AM, 2014
0615 till 0915 1 wheatear 1 willow tit, nr creek 1 common tern 1 oystercatcher 4 swift 1 yellow-billed pintail
brian fielding said
Mon Aug 11 11:18 AM, 2014
0615 till 1030 1 dunlin, confiding juvenile in front of pumphouse 1 common tern 6 swift 1 escaped yellow-billed pintail still present
Simon Johnson said
Sun Aug 10 6:57 PM, 2014
This evening
2 Redshank wader point 34 Lapwing wader point plus 107 put up from the factory roof Peregrine over - looked like a female 300+ swallow
Neil Southworth said
Sun Aug 10 12:13 PM, 2014
Good news for whoever does the WeBs count at Elton. Yellow-billed Pintail is a recordable species.
brian fielding said
Sun Aug 10 10:50 AM, 2014
0615 till 1015 not much fun in heavy rain 1 redshank 2 common tern 1 yellow-billed pintail 1 kingfisher
Ian Campbell said
Sat Aug 9 1:25 PM, 2014
Early a.m. with Brian F, Ian P and Steve H, 2 female Wheatear along wall, 1 Redshank, 2 Common Tern, 5 Swift and 1 Yellow-billed Pintail and Kingfisher on river. Cheers Ian
Rob Creek said
Fri Aug 8 2:57 PM, 2014
Ian McKerchar wrote:
Where it comes from though is anyone's guess and quite why folk 'dump' or indeed release such birds is puzzling, but its not an infrequent occurrence and who would have thought someone would have dumped a female Smew on a county lake for pity's sake
A good point Ian, why people would dump birds of this type, including this Yellow-billed Pintail and the Smew (presumably the one at Worthington) is quite bemusing and puzzling.
Steven Higginbottom said
Fri Aug 8 10:27 AM, 2014
Early AM with Brian F, Ian P and Ian C of note Snipe 1 Redshank 1 Juvenile Little Ringed Plover on River 1 Juvenile Little Grebe 1 Common Tern 2 Yellow Billed Pintail still present Yellow Wagtail over headed South 1 Swifts over heading south 5 Meadow Pipit 1
Cheers Steven
Bernard McGurrin said
Thu Aug 7 4:26 PM, 2014
Yellow billed pintail showing well coming quite close,never seen one before, common tern, numerous pied wagtail,a few swallow over the water.
Ian McKerchar said
Thu Aug 7 3:46 PM, 2014
Sorry to be the bearer of bad (predictable?) news but the fact that we seem to be giving the admittedly very handsome Yellow-billed Pintail even the slightest sliver of being wild some hope is pushing optimism to its limits . As a South American species which doesn't even reach north of the equator, nor has officially ever been recorded in North America (in a wild state at least), means it is unfortunately but quite rightly, destined for Category E of the British List, which is where all the other examples of this species in the UK reside.
Where it comes from though is anyone's guess and quite why folk 'dump' or indeed release such birds is puzzling, but its not an infrequent occurrence and who would have thought someone would have dumped a female Smew on a county lake for pity's sake
Rob Creek said
Thu Aug 7 1:14 PM, 2014
Steven Higginbottom wrote:
Got some good pictures of the Yellow billed Pintail yesterday and managed to get some numbers of its ring. But don't know where I could find out about where it was ringed the number I was able to get 347k 1018 on a silver ring think it might not be a complete number but that's all I could see.. hope this can help us find out where its from. Cheers Steven
Hi Steve, I managed 234 on the ring last night but couldn't see anything else due to the angle of the bird. It did make for some good shots and lets not forget even thought this one will probably turn out to be of tame origin, it doesn't necessarily mean birds showing tame tendencies are of tame origin. Cheers Rob
Steven Higginbottom said
Thu Aug 7 12:02 PM, 2014
Got some good pictures of the Yellow billed Pintail yesterday and managed to get some numbers of its ring. But don't know where I could find out about where it was ringed the number I was able to get 347k 1018 on a silver ring think it might not be a complete number but that's all I could see.. hope this can help us find out where its from. Cheers Steven
Ian Campbell said
Thu Aug 7 11:07 AM, 2014
Early a.m. with Brian, then Paul W, then Ian P. Adult and juv. Little Grebe, 2 Gadwall, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Peregrine on pylon and a probable Lesser Black-backed Gull that had us all confused. Thanks for you help on the 'phone Mr. McKerchar and hopefully Paul should send you some pictures so that you can teach us something of the finer points of Gull IDing. Also Yellow-billed Pintail still present, wonder where it has come from. Cheers Ian
Rob Creek said
Wed Aug 6 9:09 PM, 2014
Good to meet James Walsh and pal here this evening.
Yellow-billed Pintail still in the creek area. Feeding happily and resting next to a Common Sandpiper on the log. I would love to see this classed as a wild bird but unfortunately I think we all know what's coming. A charming and beautifully plumaged bird nonetheless!
Other birds of note...7 Great Black-backed Gulls.
Ian Boote said
Wed Aug 6 7:14 PM, 2014
PM Yellow Billed Pintail still present and appears to be quite tame swimming towards you as you approach the shore and coming to within 20 feet in the Creek area. Also two Common Sandpipers and a Jay.
Ian Campbell said
Wed Aug 6 10:11 AM, 2014
Early a.m. with Brian, Steve and Ian(more birders than birds!), Yellow-billed Pintail still present, also 1 Common Sandpiper and 1 Common Tern. Cheers Ian
brian fielding said
Tue Aug 5 12:27 PM, 2014
this mornings pintail at elton has yellow bill sides and is now believed to be an escaped yellow-billed pintail, considering genuine yellow-billed pintail comes from southern america its extremly unlikely it got here by itself, interesting bird though.
brian fielding said
Tue Aug 5 10:59 AM, 2014
0645 till 1015 with 2 ians and steve 1 juvenile pintail 1 adult peregrine on pylon for about 10mins less than 10 swifts heading south.
brian fielding said
Mon Aug 4 11:03 AM, 2014
0630 till 1030 with ian c, ian p, steve and beth 1 common tern 1 little grebe at least 60 swifts heading south.
brian fielding said
Sun Aug 3 10:50 AM, 2014
0630 till 1000 1 common sandpiper 30+ swifts heading south
brian fielding said
Sat Aug 2 2:15 PM, 2014
0600 till 0800 1 common sandpiper 1 common tern
Steven Higginbottom said
Fri Aug 1 9:35 AM, 2014
Early am with Ian C and Ian P of note Common Tern 2 + 1 straight through flying south Swift four singles passing through south Common Sandpiper 1 Cormorant 3 Kingfisher 1 on River
Cheers Steven
Ian Campbell said
Thu Jul 31 10:57 AM, 2014
Early a.m. with Steve H viewed from pump house on opposite shore a very small wader like tiny Common Sandpiper but in very poor light. The bird then flew but a couple of minutes later we heard a bird calling in flight, neither of us had heard this call before, the bird was picked up in binoculars, it was dark above and pale/white below with no obvious wing bars, again the light was poor, we then lost sight of the bird. Two minutes later Ian Peters arrived and on listening to our description read out the call of Temminck's Stint from his bird guide, both Steve and I said this matched our bird exactly, Steve then found the call on his phone and this also perfectly matched our bird. All three of us then walked round the res in search but could not relocate the small wader, we did however find 3 Dunlin on wader point and a Common Sandpiper in the creek. Cheers Ian
Ian Campbell said
Wed Jul 30 12:02 PM, 2014
70+ Lapwing on usual roof and South movement of at least 30 Swift only birds of note, no Common Sandpiper or Terns. Cheers Ian
Steven Higginbottom said
Tue Jul 29 9:30 AM, 2014
Early am with Ian C and Ian P of Note Green Sandpiper heard Common Sandpiper 1 Common Tern 2 Kingfisher 1 Cormorant 4 Hobby 1
Cheers Steven
Ian Campbell said
Mon Jul 28 11:45 AM, 2014
Also 65 Lapwing on factory roof where the Oystercatcher bred at 6.30 a.m. Cheers Ian
Steven Higginbottom said
Mon Jul 28 10:30 AM, 2014
28/7/14 Early morning with Ian C and Ian P of note Little Grebe 1 Common Tern 3 Common Gull 1 Common Sandpiper 1 Snipe 2 Dunlin 1 Goosander 6 Swift three single sightings flying south.
Three Black-necked Grebes close to the pump house when I first arrived.
Ruff moving between between the wader point and the sailing club.
Yellow-billed Pintail among Mallards near the sailing club managed to see most of the ring numbers on the bird's leg
it looks like 2347K1018AV1010.
Info thanks to Phil Kelly
Thanks for the text Brian - I still needed Ruff for my Elton life list. There's some good stuff turning up at Elton at the moment. Shame I'm stuck having to go to work!
-- Edited by Simon Warford on Monday 18th of August 2014 01:42:04 PM
Highlights:
1 Green Sandpiper, landed in overflow briefly the flew to the steam that runs through the marsh.
2 Yellow Wagtail
1 Yellow-billed Pintail near wall near pump house.
4 Linnets
Plenty of Swallows and Sand Martins. Also more House Martins than there has been recently. A handful of Swift also.
1 female redstart, on the wire fence on the south east facing side of redstart hedge (out of the wind), found just before 10am.
1 green sandpiper, on flood of water next to the canal, almost opposite crow trees farm.
1 female wheatear, below pumphouse
5 goosanders, over south
30+ mistle thrushes
yellow-billed pintail
1 grey wagtail
1 whitethroat
2 willow warblers
3 linnets
sand martins, swallows, few swifts & house martins over res
plus usuals
Where is Redstart Hedge? Thanks for any info.
No sign of any Redstarts for me! Must have spent 30 minutes at "Redstart hedge" this morning, but Robins were the only "red" things I saw.
Did have a few decent birds though:
1 Stock Dove
2 Sparrowhawk (plus 1 eating a Blackbird in the garden when I got home)
1 Hobby
6 LBB Gulls
1 Common Gull
1 Yellow Wagtail (with 20 Starlings, in field with cattle)
8 Willow Warbler
1 Oystercatcher
2 House Martins (amongst c100 Sand Martins and c50 Swallows)
1 Yellow-billed Pintail (near car park)
113 Coots (I got bored)
Info thanks to Steven Burke
1 yellow wagtail
1 wheatear
1 common tern
100+lapwings
10 swift
yellow-billed pintail back on res this morning.
...could well have flown back to South America Brian!
2 yellow wagtail, female and juvenile nr pumphouse amongst lots of pied and grey wagtails
1 common sandpiper
1 common tern
4 snipe over
1 rook over
1 stock dove
1 swift
1 willow tit
no sign of yellow-billed pintail for 2 days now.
1 wheatear
1 willow tit, nr creek
1 common tern
1 oystercatcher
4 swift
1 yellow-billed pintail
1 dunlin, confiding juvenile in front of pumphouse
1 common tern
6 swift
1 escaped yellow-billed pintail still present
2 Redshank wader point
34 Lapwing wader point plus 107 put up from the factory roof
Peregrine over - looked like a female
300+ swallow
not much fun in heavy rain
1 redshank
2 common tern
1 yellow-billed pintail
1 kingfisher
Cheers Ian
A good point Ian, why people would dump birds of this type, including this Yellow-billed Pintail and the Smew (presumably the one at Worthington) is quite bemusing and puzzling.
Snipe 1
Redshank 1
Juvenile Little Ringed Plover on River 1
Juvenile Little Grebe 1
Common Tern 2
Yellow Billed Pintail still present
Yellow Wagtail over headed South 1
Swifts over heading south 5
Meadow Pipit 1
Cheers Steven
Where it comes from though is anyone's guess and quite why folk 'dump' or indeed release such birds is puzzling, but its not an infrequent occurrence and who would have thought someone would have dumped a female Smew on a county lake for pity's sake
Hi Steve, I managed 234 on the ring last night but couldn't see anything else due to the angle of the bird. It did make for some good shots and lets not forget even thought this one will probably turn out to be of tame origin, it doesn't necessarily mean birds showing tame tendencies are of tame origin.
Cheers
Rob
Cheers Steven
Cheers Ian
Yellow-billed Pintail still in the creek area. Feeding happily and resting next to a Common Sandpiper on the log. I would love to see this classed as a wild bird but unfortunately I think we all know what's coming. A charming and beautifully plumaged bird nonetheless!
Other birds of note...7 Great Black-backed Gulls.
Cheers Ian
1 juvenile pintail
1 adult peregrine on pylon for about 10mins
less than 10 swifts heading south.
1 common tern
1 little grebe
at least 60 swifts heading south.
1 common sandpiper
30+ swifts heading south
1 common sandpiper
1 common tern
Common Tern 2 + 1 straight through flying south
Swift four singles passing through south
Common Sandpiper 1
Cormorant 3
Kingfisher 1 on River
Cheers Steven
Cheers Ian
Cheers Ian
Green Sandpiper heard
Common Sandpiper 1
Common Tern 2
Kingfisher 1
Cormorant 4
Hobby 1
Cheers Steven
Cheers Ian
Little Grebe 1
Common Tern 3
Common Gull 1
Common Sandpiper 1
Snipe 2
Dunlin 1
Goosander 6
Swift three single sightings flying south.
Cheers Steven