MB

 

Members Login
Username 
 
Password 
    Remember Me  
Post Info TOPIC: Walshaw Village, Tottington


Status: Offline
Posts: 356
Date:
RE: Walshaw Village, Tottington


5pm 

10+ spotted flycatchers in the fields adjacent to Hall street. Mega local patch records! They were slowly passing through in mixed flocks of Willow warbler and Goldcrests. 



Attachments
__________________

One by one the penguins steal my sanity

https://www.flickr.com/photos/salfordmartin/



Status: Offline
Posts: 356
Date:

7;40pm 

Juvenile Marsh harrier was quartering the fields behind Affetside Cross for round 30 mins before drifting off south in the direction of Harwood. 



Attachments
__________________

One by one the penguins steal my sanity

https://www.flickr.com/photos/salfordmartin/



Status: Offline
Posts: 356
Date:

5 Grey wagtails over my garden in the past hour.

Plus X2 Sand Martin 



-- Edited by Martin Loftus on Saturday 11th of April 2020 07:05:08 PM

__________________

One by one the penguins steal my sanity

https://www.flickr.com/photos/salfordmartin/



Status: Offline
Posts: 356
Date:

Just had a male siskin on my feeders.. That's a local patch and garden lifer! biggrin



__________________

One by one the penguins steal my sanity

https://www.flickr.com/photos/salfordmartin/



Status: Offline
Posts: 356
Date:

5pm yesterday evening had a visit from this lovely young male sparrowhawk to my garden. It hung around a while ,posed for a few photographs. Then chased a few sparrows around, bouncing off my fence panels a few times then went on its way empty handed. no

Looking at the moult l recon it's one of last year's birds. 



Attachments
__________________

One by one the penguins steal my sanity

https://www.flickr.com/photos/salfordmartin/



Status: Offline
Posts: 356
Date:

5,40pm. A pair of Raven flying high above Walshaw in the thermals, being very vocal and comming quite low at times. 



__________________

One by one the penguins steal my sanity

https://www.flickr.com/photos/salfordmartin/



Status: Offline
Posts: 356
Date:

13 Common Gulls mixed in with a large flock of black-headed Gulls on High Bank Farm's fields this afternoon at 3pm 



__________________

One by one the penguins steal my sanity

https://www.flickr.com/photos/salfordmartin/



Status: Offline
Posts: 356
Date:

When I got back home from my morning walk round Elton Reservoir today, I was greeted by this lovely specimen of a juvenile Sparrowhawk just sat on my roof eying up my feeders. 



Attachments
__________________

One by one the penguins steal my sanity

https://www.flickr.com/photos/salfordmartin/



Status: Offline
Posts: 356
Date:

More signs of migratory movement,  just had this juvenile Wheatear land on my roof as I was out tending to my garden. aww



Attachments
__________________

One by one the penguins steal my sanity

https://www.flickr.com/photos/salfordmartin/



Status: Offline
Posts: 356
Date:

First signs of movement this year. Just had a massive flock of young passerines move through my local patch. I was able to do a ruff count yet it was difficult due to them not staying still and interacting with each other. They were all slowly moving down the centre of the field in the hawthorn and holly hedge row.  Got a decent count as they all flew off together heading south west with a very angry and vocal nuthatch in hot pursuit biggrin

X 21 Long-tailed tit

X 9 willow warbler

X 6 spotted flycatcher 

X1 goldgrest 



-- Edited by Martin Loftus on Wednesday 9th of August 2017 05:45:59 PM

Attachments
__________________

One by one the penguins steal my sanity

https://www.flickr.com/photos/salfordmartin/



Status: Offline
Posts: 356
Date:

Finally witnessed and photographed the culprit who keeps terrorising my feeders today hmm : 

female Sparrowhawk 



-- Edited by Martin Loftus on Saturday 5th of August 2017 11:47:00 PM

Attachments
__________________

One by one the penguins steal my sanity

https://www.flickr.com/photos/salfordmartin/



Status: Offline
Posts: 356
Date:

Just had two juvenile green woodpeckers in the field off Hall street near to the nursing home, was watching them both flying around cackling to each other. Heard an adult yaffeling from the trees in the brook, was just about to get them lined up for a photo when a massive bolt of lightning sent them all scarpering in opposite directions....me included! confuse



-- Edited by Martin Loftus on Tuesday 1st of August 2017 03:06:06 PM

__________________

One by one the penguins steal my sanity

https://www.flickr.com/photos/salfordmartin/



Status: Offline
Posts: 356
Date:

5,30am -  Single Raven flying over towards Affetside, Cronking away to its self smile



__________________

One by one the penguins steal my sanity

https://www.flickr.com/photos/salfordmartin/



Status: Offline
Posts: 356
Date:

Male green woodpecker in the field adjacent to Hall Street/ top of Neston Rd 



__________________

One by one the penguins steal my sanity

https://www.flickr.com/photos/salfordmartin/



Status: Offline
Posts: 356
Date:

Hall Street fields, Male and female bullfinch. My first sightings of this species in this location in nearly a year of a daily circuit of this area smile



__________________

One by one the penguins steal my sanity

https://www.flickr.com/photos/salfordmartin/



Status: Offline
Posts: 356
Date:

This caught my eye as I was driving home before, just by the shear size of it. It was feasting on a lamb carcass in the field at the top of Walshaw rd. I decided to take the dog out for a walk to investigate. It turned out to be (forgive me if I'm wrong) a Second winter Great black-backed Gull 



Attachments
__________________

One by one the penguins steal my sanity

https://www.flickr.com/photos/salfordmartin/



Status: Offline
Posts: 356
Date:

2.30pm A pair of Raven flew over Bentley Hall farm in the direction of Elton Reservoir. 



__________________

One by one the penguins steal my sanity

https://www.flickr.com/photos/salfordmartin/



Status: Offline
Posts: 356
Date:

2,30pm:  Two male Kestrels having an intense aerial territorial battle over High bank farm's field on Walshaw rd.



__________________

One by one the penguins steal my sanity

https://www.flickr.com/photos/salfordmartin/



Status: Offline
Posts: 356
Date:

3.15pm. A small, slender looking adult male Peregrine was hunting low on Woolfold fields adjacent to Scobell street. It came in from the direction of Bury town centre, sent a huge flock of gulls, starlings and pigeons high up into the gale force winds. Made a few failed swoops and then left empty handed flying slowly past me in the direction of Ramsbottom. evileye 



__________________

One by one the penguins steal my sanity

https://www.flickr.com/photos/salfordmartin/



Status: Offline
Posts: 356
Date:

Considering i now live round here i thought id start a new thread to post my local sightings biggrin (unless one already exists? I couldn't find it if so)

Bentley hall farm fields along Hall street. 

x3 Spotted flycatchers 

X2 Grey wagtails 

X2 snipe (which scared the living daylights out of me as I nearly stood on them both as I was jumping over a brook, needless to say they wernt happy! ) blankstare 



Attachments
__________________

One by one the penguins steal my sanity

https://www.flickr.com/photos/salfordmartin/

Page 1 of 1  sorted by
Quick Reply

Please log in to post quick replies.

RODIS

 

This forum is dedicated to the memory of Eva Janice McKerchar.