Why do I allow myself to be seduced by proprietary bird seed? 'All year round', 'No mess', etc. If I put out sunflower hearts or niger (nyger? nyjer?) seed my feeders are alive with action but once I change to other varieties the garden becomes a bird-free zone. What's your experience?
I wonder if anyone has any recent information about this site high up on the moorland above Rochdale, and previously a good site for Twite. Up to 2009 there were quite a lot of entries on the forum related to this site and a twite feeding station at Light Hazzles Reservoir. There seem to have been no entri...
Firstly, apologies if you have read a similar thread to this on another birding forum - I'm now interested in the 'local' view. Secondly, if you are actually deaf, rather than just tone deaf, may I apologize as well - my 'issues' are minor compared to yours. Anyway, I was walking the dog this morning &am...
Hummingbird Hawk Moth on my garden buddleia this afternoon. According to the Butterfly Conservation website there are a good number about. Other than that, in the garden, I am only seeing Small Tortoiseshells and the odd White -- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Saturday 15th of September 2012 10:19:58 P...
Hello all, im hoping to pick your brains, im after a second camera to just keep in my pocket and use for landscapes and just wider aspect shots, i have a great little samsung hd thing but the battery life is rubbish, everytime i need it it seem to run out of battery, ideal camera, main criterea small in size...
I'd be willing to post any item or meet up for the exchange. I live in Salford Quays if that helps. Get in touch if you'd like me to email images. Offers will be considered! Canon 15 x 50 IS All Weather Binoculars - Very Good Condition - £700 - Boxed - Original Case - Cleaning Cloth - Instructions - Mi...
when i was looking for the asteroid on the 15;02;13 at 21;30 i saw 50 plus Geese flying in formation in a south westerly direction can anyone tell me what thay might be? and where thay might be going? -- Edited by NIALL GALLAGHER on Tuesday 19th of February 2013 04:45:53 AM
Canon 28mm-135mm EF series lens for sale this lens is brand new, while on a recent birding holiday my trusty canon 7d died, my lens was okay but my shutter failed and the camera died, after years of abuse i had just wore it out, i was in america and had no choice but to just just buy a new camera, i could not sur...
Up to 50 Twite at Flint Castle all day yesterday showing really well, a must see! I have a few shots and reports on my Blog http://austinmorley.blogspot.co.uk/
Heading up to Carlisle on Monday and I'll be around the Gretna area just before dusk so I thought I'd check out the starling murmuration that I've been reading so much about. Thing is, I haven't got a clue whereabouts to head in Gretna. I've just done some research and somebody has mentioned Rigg which p...
I'm after a second pair of binoculars but can't afford too much at the moment.(dreaded job cuts) I'm fed up of running out to get them out of my car and when I'm out, realising I don't have them in the car as there in the house..!!!! Doh I've got rspb 8x42 so would like something a bit more powerfu...
03/10/2011 - Plenty of fungi on show in the Davenport Green area during my morning walk: Shaggy Bracket Shaggy Inkcap Pleated Inkcap Blackening Waxcap Heath Waxcap Snowy Waxcap Egghead Mottlegill Mottlegill sp. The Deciever Field Mushroom Dryad's Saddle Chicken of the woods Giant Puffball - gon...
I have personally funded this forum since I started it, which is over six years now. I have watched it grow and grow in popularity and cannot quite believe just how well used it has become. Of course I am very glad about this (no one wants a forum no one looks at do they!) but I've somewhat become a victim of m...
Well there were the three Little Gulls chasing the ferry, a few miles off Zeebrugge - looking for all the world, at first glance in the early morning light, like overgrown waders. Then there was the White Stork stood, incongruously, on a shop forecourt. at first we thought it was a fibreglass model, bu...
Can anyone advise me where I can purchase a map that shows Greater Manchester and it's boundaries to a degree of detail that would allow clarity on where the border actually runs. I've looked on the OS website but can't see anything obvious, although I know I could just be looking in the wrong place. Liv...
1 Goldfinch in the Flour mill grounds 1 Tufted Duck 2 Mute Swan 5 Canada Geese 2 Mallard 2 Woodpigeon 2 Collared Dove ETW Up to 200 Pied Wagtails with the odd Grey Wagtail thrown in 10 Magpies 2 Carrion Crow 1 Kestrel 1 Song Thrush -- Edited by Dave Hobson on Tuesday 12th of February 2013 06:05:45 PM
Hi, just wondered if anyone had taken this journey from Manchester? There seems to be three stations to choose from close to the site, so I wondered if anyone had any recommendations for a nice walk between any of the stations and MM? Main reason for visit is to check out the binoculars in the InFocus sho...
I have an Optolyth TBS 80 for sale. It has an HD Fluorite Lens and comes with 2 eyepieces, which are 20 x WW and 30 x WW. It's a very good scope in excellent condition. I am looking for £360. -- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Sunday 10th of February 2013 06:56:28 PM
Please consider signing an online petition set up by the RSPB asking David Cameron to live up to his rhetoric in leading a 'green government' and to vote against savage cuts to wildlife friendly farming subsidies across the EU which have taken a generation of campaigning to achieve - http://www.rsp...
Excellent male smew from 08:00 - 10:30. Apparently been present since at least Sunday according to one of the estate workers. View from Bridleway, no other access. Phil
tbs 80 optolyth spotter scope with hd fluorite lens and optolyth eye lens 100:45xww, as new condition throughout also if required verbon tripod sherpa 600 -- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Saturday 16th of February 2013 04:30:23 PM
I have for sale my pair of Opticron Verano BGA PC Oasis WP 8x42 binoculars with their rainguards, eyecups, pouch and strap. I have owned these pair of bins for about 4 years from new. The glass is very clean and image bright and sharp. There is a minor scuff on the body which in no way at all affects t...
In our endeavour to offer Greater Manchester birders the most convenient and comprehensive methods of bird record submission, I am happy to introduce an on-line submission method via RODiS. I hope that the large volume of users of this forum who do not submit their records (and as such their valuabl...
I find sunflower hearts to be the most popular with the Tits, Goldfinches and Chaffinches.I also have a niger seed feeder for the Goldies. The Long Tailed Tits seem to prefer Wilkinsons fat balls.I have peanuts out for the Tits as well. However no matter what mixed seed I put out all that ever seems to ge...
when i was looking for the asteroid on the 15;02;13 at 21;30 i saw 50 plus Geese flying in formation in a south westerly direction can anyone tell me what thay might be? and where thay might be going? -- Edited by NIALL GALLAGHER on Tuesday 19th of February 2013 04:45:53 AM
