Between 10.30am - 2.30pm today Peat pools were very quiet , just the Plovers and Reedbuntings and 2 Buzzards over Over and around Astley Moss and Rindle road, 2 Buzzards 5 Yellowhammers 6 Tree sparrows 8 Reed buntings 2 Jays 2 Skylarks 4 Mpipits 2 Whitethroat 2 Willow warblers 1 Whimbrel and 1 Sparrowh...
Thought I'd start a specific thread for this lovely place seen as I've just moved to a house that backs onto it. A walk from 9-10.30 this morning produced: 800 Wood Pigeon over, incuding a single flock of 700, 3 Goosander, Redwing, Meadow Pipit, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Bullfinch, Nuthatch, 6 Gold...
26/07/2012 - Fermyn, Lady and Souther Woods, Northamptonshire: Thanks to some useful info from John Rayner I headed down to these ancient woods with Mike Duckham. Butterflies were the main draw, including the stunning and sizeable Purple Emperor: 3 Purple Emperors - numbers lower now but some col...
A fishing pool a mile or so south of Sandiway, best accessed from the Nova Scotia Lane/Sandy Lane end (the east end). Redhead Smew fishing at the western end close up against the bank at 1530 today. Been there a couple of days. Another birder there intimated that it had been at Astbury Mere and Westport L...
A quick walk down the old Tyldesley Loopline near my house this evening produced the following birds: 3 Chiffchaffs singing and two seen 1 very vocal Wren 2 Robins proclaiming their territory 3 Blackbirds 1 Goldfinch 2 Magpies 2 Great Tits 2 Blue Tits 1 Carrion Crow over Several Gulls over Numerous Wo...
Selling my back up scope , rarely used these days.
Comes with case (body & objective only, eyepiece cover lost), Leicaxlens cap.
Great condition.
The zoom eyepiece works fine, but does have the old Leica issue of the "fine" focus wheel being smooth but the "coarse" focus wheel being a tad s...
7/4/07 p.m. 2 Little Ringed Plover - one in display flight 6 (3 prs.) Oystercatcher Snipe Swallow over Little Grebe 6 (3 prs.) Great Crested Grebe 2 Gadwall 3 LbBG 2 Sparrowhawk `courting` high above 2 Stock Dove -- Edited by Ian McKerchar at 15:06, 2007-07-15
16/3/07 3 Curlew - Burnt Edge Raven - Wildersmoor 2 m. Stonechat - Smithills Moor Kestrel several Coal Tit - Wilderswood a Grey Heron over the top of Two Lads Hill had me quivering momentarily ! -- Edited by Ian McKerchar at 14:44, 2007-07-17
8-30-9-30am 3 Little Gulls (2 adult summers) 2 Common Terns 2 Sedge Warblers -- Edited by warfy at 15:29, 2007-05-03-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Thursday 3rd of May 2012 04:48:26 PM
I think with this post i will tell you about some of the great places i visited for birding around north wales and Anglesey,starting with the latter.Cemlyn on Anglesey is a brilliant spot on the west coast with waders in abundance dunlin,turnstone,sanderling, oyster catchers,redshank,curlew,r...
Sunday 29th March 2015 Another quality day in the company of Simon Gough and Steve Burke produced another Wildfowl bonanza and Gull fest with a whole host of species providing a top quality supporting cast. 73 species seen on the day, including 1 Lifer for me, 6 heard only, and 2 that I missed, so day tot...
Peregrine late morning perched in top of a hedge off Parkside Rd. Different bird to the one I saw at HGF earlier this morning Also female Pintail on Newton Lake (Willow Park) late afternoon and 28 Linnets on Parkside Rd -- Edited by Mike Baron at 17:33, 2008-11-08
2nd Winter Visit
House Sparrow 44
Robin 6
Magpie 33
Blackbird 5
Blue Tit 31
Collared Dove 14
Wood Pigeon 17
Great Tit 17
Sparrowhawk 1 ( in Chadderton Cemy harrassed by 5 Carrion Crows)
Redwing 50 (min - parties of 29, 45, 50, 13 but last 3 at least probably all same flock)
Wren 4
Nuthatch 1
C...
Dunkirk Wood Common Buzzard (mobbed by three Carrion Crows) Great Spotted Woodpecker (heard only) Nuthatch (heard only) Song Thrush (singing) 6 Long Tailed Tit Also good numbers of Blue and Great Tits A female Sparrowhawk quickly put an end to the quarrelling of six House Sparrows on the housing es...
A lepidopteran bonanza this p.m. with some real prizes (if you like that sort of thing). At least 6 green hairstreaks were on the heather/bilberry moorland near the cross, but more excitingly there were the first 2 painted ladies of the year, the first red admiral of the year (extremely scarce in the...
Great tits have nested in a box in my garden this year, i am waiting with anticipation as to see how many will fledge. Parents have been feeding none stop for a while now and the chicks are getting louder by the day i think they will be off any time now. Also of note over the last few days 2 Jays gs woodpecker 2 n...
Chiffchaff along hedgerow between Flixton E.T.W. and Manchester Ship Canal at 14.10 also Kingfisher flying along ship canal -- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Monday 5th of July 2010 02:27:17 PM-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Sunday 30th of March 2014 03:51:08 PM
we've now been here a week of what is essentially a family visit involving socialising, sight seeing, working on the farm, with some birding when the opportunity presents itself. A few common species were frequenting the garden of the Bangkok house, with Pied Fantails zipping around in typical fas...
first visit to Moore NR this morning, not a bad this for 2 hours at the site.
blackbird
bunting reed
buzzard
coot
cormorant
crow carrion
crow hooded
dove collard
duck, tufted
finch bull
finch chaf
finch green
goose canada
grebe great crested
grebe little
gull black headed
gull co...
Called there this pm. 2 male and 1 female Goosander 3 Little Grebe at least 1 Moorhen 1 Cormorant 2 Swan 1 Wigeon 1 Tufted Duck -- Edited by Geoff Walton on Friday 12th of December 2025 04:41:27 PM
Just struck me that we didn't have a thread for this little gem of an RSPB reserve. On the Dee Estuary just off the end of the M56, I visit about once a month. On Sunday I saw Little Egret, Spoonbill, Avocets with 3 chicks, Pintail, Med Gull, BH Gull in stinging nettles (see other thread), Buzzard, and Rave...
Vale Royal Locks to Winsford (PM) I was advised by a nature lover from Northwich that this area is a hotspot for Grass Snakes, alas I didn't find any. It's a walk worth doing though, no uncommon birds about, but lots of wildlife, and at this time of year a botanical gem, especially the marshy areas adjoin...
first stop public hide watched a male marsh harrier flyover towards lilians aprox 11.30am.great black backed gull with 3 chicks directly infront of hide.also aprox 200 coot,20 gadwal,2 pochard. lower hide watching female red deer at waters edge munching on grass also,family of reed bunting and r...
There probably won't be much to report on this page, but it's a good day to start. I found a hedgehog crossing the road on the estate at about 11 a.m. this morning. The time was unusual, but, on top of that, it was the first live one I'd seen locally for about fifteen years (probably longer). During that tim...
While doing R/O/W Inspections Today Hesketh Meadow Rd 2 Willow Tits 4 Whitethroat at least 2 was feeding young Elliott Ave Golborne Nesting House Martins Ashton Rd nr disused railway nr pond 1 Grey Heron 2 Whitethroat 1 Blackcap 1 Moorhen Nook Lane Footpath to Bridge St 10+Greenfinch looked to be 2 Fa...
