GRIFFON VULTURE, now I bet the birder who saw that today was a little taken short of breath.
nice to see that flying over head?
keep birding.
Neil Baxter said
Fri Apr 10 3:40 PM, 2009
fred fouracre wrote:
i trekked 1 mile to see the chiloe wigeon at crook marina.
I'd never seen this wee critter... but my wife and I took our dogs for a walk this morning and saw it - I'll have to go back with the camera and get a shot I reckon.
Neil.
dave broome said
Sat Mar 14 10:06 PM, 2009
fred fouracre wrote:
i trekked 1 mile to see the chiloe wigeon at crook marina.
Good man Fred, that's the sort of thing the BBC should get celebrities to do for Comic Relief
fred fouracre said
Fri Mar 13 8:31 PM, 2009
i trekked 1 mile to see the chiloe wigeon at crook marina.
Craig Higson said
Thu Mar 12 11:13 PM, 2009
I travelled to Frodsham a good few years ago to see Ross's Goose amongst other things, and made a quick detour to Pennington last year (or was it the year before) to see the Ruddy Shelduck. The goose was one of a number of interesting things around and the shelduck was on my local patch and you cant turn that down. Personally I dont travel too far to see 'proper' vagrants so I'm unlikely to travel very far at all for a possible escape unless there's lots of other interesting stuff around or unless its really really spectacular - Stella's Sea Eagle springs to mind
Rob Thorpe said
Tue Mar 10 9:49 PM, 2009
Not sure i would travel to see something that i KNEW to be an escape... But i have travelled to Dunsop Bridge (as i'm sure many other's on this forum did) to see the Eagle Owls (after all i KNOW the chick's were NOT! escapes ), and i travelled to Rainford Moss (not very far i know!) to see the Ross's Goose (i didn't see it, but then it had the courtesy to fly over me at Abram a couple of weeks later ). Not sure where i'm going with this, i suppose the answer to your question Dave is "probably not very far, but it depends what it is and what mood i'm in".
Pete Welch said
Tue Mar 10 7:07 AM, 2009
As someone just starting out Dave I have had doubts about whether to try and see and or record potential feral or escaped birds... getting a true Rock Dove [South Stack, Anglesey my closest so far], spotting a non feral Greylag, the Taverners at Pennington, Ruddy Duck etc... However I did travel to Dunham especially to see the the Ring Necked Parakeet and I was really chuffed when I found it!
So in short - at least 20 miles... Cheers, Peter
dave broome said
Mon Mar 9 9:45 PM, 2009
On the subject of escaped birds (parrot sp. on Ashton-in-Makerfield thread), how far would you go to see a bird which you knew to be an escape? If your immediate reaction is that you wouldn't - if someone told you there was a Budgie outside your window then you would have a look. If it was in next door's garden would you go round, or what if it was in the next street? I presume one factor would be the species involved, e.g. I went to Wigan Pier a few years ago to see an Eagle Owl which was at large, but wouldn't have gone there to see a Budgie. There can also be the challenge of identifying something unusual (parrots for example). Any thoughts, or am I just suffering the effects of too many dark winter evenings??
nice to see that flying over head?
keep birding.
I'd never seen this wee critter... but my wife and I took our dogs for a walk this morning and saw it - I'll have to go back with the camera and get a shot I reckon.
Neil.
Good man Fred, that's the sort of thing the BBC should get celebrities to do for Comic Relief
Not sure where i'm going with this, i suppose the answer to your question Dave is "probably not very far, but it depends what it is and what mood i'm in".
So in short - at least 20 miles... Cheers, Peter