Wood Sandpipers, Avocets, Egrets, Harriers and Hobbys, at the Three Sisters!?
JOHN TYMON said
Fri Nov 21 10:03 PM, 2008
Tony Coatsworth wrote:
Shameless plug for the Manchester RSPB Group here
We have a talk next week Tuesday 25th 7:30pm
An illustrated talk by Charles Owen, 'From Three Sisters to Seven Sisters' at St James Parish Church Hall, Gatley £2.00 entrance fee (includes tea and biscuits. RSPB sales.
Charles was a warden for 3 Sisters I think so you can ask him direct !
-- Edited by Tony Coatsworth at 19:27, 2008-11-21
charlie was warden at 3 sisters and pennington flash for about 15 years,one of the most knowledgable local birders,and better photographs you won't have seen anywere,charlie is still out on penny almost daily,and im with him most weekends,anyone who can get to the slide show,get along,youl'e love it
Geoff Hargreaves said
Fri Nov 21 9:43 PM, 2008
Rob Tony and all,considering my lack of sucess in the mystrey bird comp I,ll just dip my toe in here ,green sandpiper and house martin??hardly a confusion risk (maybe at dusk in the distance and two pints of hwite litnihge) but the offical centre of the dog walking world is viridor woods a-i-m,and that stange custom of picking up your dogs poo in a bag and then hanging it on a nearby branch has it,s origins here
cheers geoff, horrocks flash 'spoonbill flats' is expecting,little egret,glossy ibis,etc i,ll go and check in the morning
Tony Coatsworth said
Fri Nov 21 7:27 PM, 2008
Shameless plug for the Manchester RSPB Group here
We have a talk next week Tuesday 25th 7:30pm
An illustrated talk by Charles Owen, 'From Three Sisters to Seven Sisters' at St James Parish Church Hall, Gatley £2.00 entrance fee (includes tea and biscuits. RSPB sales.
Charles was a warden for 3 Sisters I think so you can ask him direct !
-- Edited by Tony Coatsworth at 19:27, 2008-11-21
Rob Thorpe said
Fri Nov 21 6:15 PM, 2008
Just been shown an article in the latest Borough Life (Wigan) Winter 2008 issue. It is regarding the little pond that has recently been made on the site of the old BMX track at the Three Sisters Recreation Area, Ashton-in-Makerfield. According to the article: "one of the visitors was a green sandpiper, a wader which in flight looks like a large house martin, Five hundred to a thousand of these turn up around England and Wales between July and March, but only one or two pairs actually breed here. Hopefully, this is just the beginning. "We're expecting wood sandpiper, avocet, egret, harrier, hobby and a host of others as well. Three Sisters is looking absolutely fabulous and really living up to its 'wetland' title". I have to say i'm rather unconvinced, considering this place has probably the highest concentration of dog walkers anywhere in the Western Palearctic! But we shall see...
charlie was warden at 3 sisters and pennington flash for about 15 years,one of the most knowledgable local birders,and better photographs you won't have seen anywere,charlie is still out on penny almost daily,and im with him most weekends,anyone who can get to the slide show,get along,youl'e love it
cheers geoff,
We have a talk next week Tuesday 25th 7:30pm
An illustrated talk by Charles Owen, 'From Three Sisters to Seven Sisters' at St James Parish Church Hall, Gatley £2.00 entrance fee (includes tea and biscuits. RSPB sales.
Charles was a warden for 3 Sisters I think so you can ask him direct !
-- Edited by Tony Coatsworth at 19:27, 2008-11-21
"one of the visitors was a green sandpiper, a wader which in flight looks like a large house martin, Five hundred to a thousand of these turn up around England and Wales between July and March, but only one or two pairs actually breed here. Hopefully, this is just the beginning. "We're expecting wood sandpiper, avocet, egret, harrier, hobby and a host of others as well. Three Sisters is looking absolutely fabulous and really living up to its 'wetland' title".
I have to say i'm rather unconvinced, considering this place has probably the highest concentration of dog walkers anywhere in the Western Palearctic! But we shall see...
-- Edited by Rob Thorpe at 20:12, 2008-11-21