I'll be bidding a fond farewell to south Manchester in a few weeks and heading over to the wrong side of the Pennines, relocating to Marsden. I was just wondering if anybody could recommend any good sites in the area? Have done a bit of research and am aware that the area is important for Twite, so looking...
Recently I've been combining a renewed interest in birdwatching with trying to learn the Bulgarian language, and for those who want to learn another language I'd recommend this as a mutually beneficial exercise for improving both your language skills and understanding of birds. I started off jus...
This morning - 3 Black Tailed Godwits, Pair Teal, 2 pairs Great Crested Grebes, Sedge Warbler, single Gadwall and Pochard drakes - Pearsons, 2 Comorants - Turners, 2 pairs Common Terns and 5 BH Gull nests Horrocks West along with singing Garden Warbler (by railway bridge) and a a pair of Redpolls, plu...
There are couple of petitions circulating to stop ships from flushing this substance from their holds while at sea with lethal consequences to sea birds, as demonstrated twice off our coasts this last winter To sign visit: https://secure.38 degrees.org.uk/page/signup/save-our-seabirds/ an...
Pictures and detailed descriptions on request. Any trial welcome by arrangement - but to fund upgrades I am selling: Boxed and just about as new D7000 - £440 collected £455 delivered RMSD Unboxed but VGC 55-200mm VR DX lens - versatile lens just not getting used - £85 collected £95 delivered RMSD MM2 O...
This afternoon: A Roe Deer, bounding along the bank of Middlebrook. In a downstream direction. -- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Wednesday 1st of May 2013 03:21:21 PM
Just had a wet week in Wales (though it seems to have been pretty damp here as well).
Highlight was my first Sooty Shearwater from the seawatching shelter on Strumble Head (nr Fishguard). You needed the shelter - without it you couldn't hold bins or scope steady in the gale that was blowing! Choughed...
4.30am-8.30pm
Hodbarrow:
Usual common and sandwich terns, no little terns have nested this year unfortunately.
Lots of ringed plover, oystercatchers, rb mergs, etc, a dozen gannets fishing off-shore.
3 dark morph Arctic skuas. One gave great views, chasing terns and eventually landing o...
I am not very knowledgeable about cameras, and would be grateful for any advice please. I have a choice between 2 cameras to acquire, and I wish to do some bird photo's One is the Panasonic Lumix FZ38 (12.1 megapixels 18X optical zoom) Leica lens. The other is the Sony NEX 5 14.1 megapixels With the Panas...
There is a Salford Quays Cruise for wildlife watching on the 11th May. Please see the county notice board on the Manchester Birding website for full details.
Those of us who don't drive, how easy do they find to navigate around the county on buses and trains? I was delighted this week when I went to buy a seven-day First ticket and they're slashed from 19 quid to 13 quid! Paid for my chips and curry in Radcliffe twice over! But getting the bus/train can be a pain!...
HI all. I have been a visitor to this forum for many years but have been out of circulation recently due to a problem with my hands. In the New year I had an operation on both of them so that now I can once again hold a pair of binoculars and my camera. Anyway years ago I remember going to Spurn point with some of...
Where are they? The fields around Sunbank Lane used to be a usual haunt for these birds but none seen for quite some time. Not seen any reports on the forum unless I have missed them. Anybody else noticed this? Cheers Jason
I cycle up Longworth Rd from Egerton up to Belmont reservoir twice a week, and although I have seen short eared owl and a hen harrier in the past couple of years I had seen nothing of note for months. However today there were two peregrine near Delph Sailing Club and two buzzard near to Belmont reservoir....
This weekend the 27th April sees the Hurst Clough BioBlitz in Hyde, for which everyone is invited and I hope as many of you as possible will show your support and at least drop by. Full details of the event can be found on the 'County Notice Board, page of the Manchester Birding website'.
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I have recently returned from a birding trip to Thailand and I have begun to upload short unedited video clips onto You Tube. Any links here will be to birds, the exotic and the familiar. I will also be uploading clips of other wildlife for example mammals, butterflies and reptiles together with sceni...
Cheshire and Wirral Ornithological Society (CAWOS) are looking for someone, preferably with some birding knowledge to take over as database manager for their records. This is a paid post, on a sort of consultancy basis so they are not expecting the individual to do it for nothing. They have an exist...
It kinda goes without saying now that as we're coming into the breeding season it is all our responsibilities to be considerate as to what we post regarding breeding, or potentially breeding, birds. Please take the time to read the sticky posts on the top of the sightings page if you're unsure about th...
Reports of new arrivals are coming in from all over the county. I'm sure my own local patch (Rhodes Lodges / Alkrington Woods) is buzzing & I've had a viral infection for about 10 days - so no walks down to the woods for me, for the foreseeable future.. So let's have a garden watch instead. Fine except...
I wonder if anybody could identify the tern on the spit at horrocks near the green bouy at about 10.30 a.m. this morning. There were a few birders about and i would be grateful for the help, my photo is not clear enough for def. id many thanks
Myself and Henry Cook headed over to Elba Park early this afternoon for the long staying Little Bunting. Strong winds made birding very difficult on arrival with only a few Meadow Pipits, Skylarks and Swallows braving the conditions whilst other species kept low. We made our way down to the s...
Ian Plant kindly made me aware of a possible Spotted Flycatcher that he had seen in the Conservation area. I have checked the area out for 10 minutes this morning (couldn't stay longer due to work commitments) and although no sign of the possible Spotted Fly still did manage to see: 1 Lesser Whitethroa...
It looks as if 2011 will be the Year of the Buzzard in Oldham! We were out today (Sunday 10th April 2011) and at 12.16 pm we saw a buzzard soaring over Delph. We saw it go round and round, no wings flaps, until we lost sight of it. It has been a wonderful sunny and clear day, very little wind. Peter Jones Shaw
He all I am putting up for sale my full digi kit which is only about 14 months old. It comprises of; Nikon prostaff ra111 80 mm scope Stay on case Nikon coolpix 5100 3 batteries for the camera Camera charger Opticron tripod Nikon digital camera bracket The reason for the sale is that I just do not use it as mu...
Operation Wallacea are looking for a field biologist who could help with bird biodiversity surveys of the Tarnava Mare Natura 2000 region of the Carpathians in Romania (http://www.discovertarnavamare.org/). The dates would be from 26 June to 6 August and although this is a voluntary position, a...
