A great reserve based just off junction 25 of the M1. Extensive grounds/waters to cover with several well placed hides. You really could spend all day here and still not cover all the trails. As well as the flooded gravel pits the reserve lies next to the river Trent which is also accessible. Highlight...
Hi All, I wasn't sure where this should go so I thought here was as good a place as any. I was recently away in Cumbria for a couple of days, and spotted a bit of a mystery bird. It dropped down into a small tree nearby, and continued to flit between 2 or 3 trees for 5 minutes or so before flying out of sight. Howe...
Went looking for Moor Club today but was amazed to find only two small specimens! Heath Waxcap, Milking Bonnet and Earthy Powdercap were the only other things of note! Dave
Started feeding at Rindle on 31st Oct, errected 2 feeders in hedges as a trial, too many pheasant about that take the seed off the floor. Feed by Leigh Ornithological Society, observations please on feeders.
Hi I am a new member. Greetings to all. I would really appreciate your help. I am visiting the NW this weekend, Bury area. I am a keen amateur photographer and would ideally like to get close up photographs of kingfisher, Dipper and Nuthatch. Willing to travel NW , Cheshire, Yorkshire, Merseyside. Bes...
Ive always associated Jackdaws with the countryside but over the last year I have seen them in Northenden,Wythenshawe Park and now they are encroching into Benchill,7 seen yesterday on the estate. Is this unusual or are they on any other Town etates.
Plantation between reservoir and chapeltown road. Separate male and female sparrow hawks hunting. 2 kestrel perch hunting. Lots of gold crest and coal tit in conifers plus 4 treecreeper.
This is a plea for help in completing my collection of Manchester County Bird reports. I need 1974,1976,1980,1981,1992 and 1995. If anybody has any of these reports going spare, then PM me and we can come to some arrangement. Thanks in advance.
Hi All,,, I have some Swarovski items for sale on a well known auction site,,,I am selling all my gear as bad health forces sale,,,for those who dont frequent the auction site if you email me i will give you a list with some price i would like! thanks for looking,,, Ray,,, ray@cauwood.co.uk
A little quieter today last night several mini motorbikes blasting through frightening everything but the squirrels. coal,blue,willow,great and long tailed tits 2 mallard 1 greywagtail(m) kingfisher(?) pheasant nuthatch g/s pecker chaffinch robin wren chiff chaff blackbird magpie wood...
Apparently Eagle Owls are not "countable" as they're not on the British List and all those seen in the Uk are considered to be of captive origin. Fair enough. But doesn't the same apply to Little Owl, Canada Goose, Ruddy Duck, Ring-Necked Parakeet and maybe others? How many viable breedin...
Laura Praciak is a MA Wildlife Documentary Production student at the University of Salford. For a group project she needs to make a short, people-based, wildlife film based in the Greater Manchester area, due for submission in January 2012. She is planning to make a film on urban Birdwatching in Man...
Hi, For sale: Good condition, angled Opticron ES80 ED V2 with HDF 20-60 zoom eyepiece. Opticron stay on case (not removed since bought.) Manfrotto 055MFV carbonfibre tripod. Manfrotto 701RC2 head and plate. I've also got a telephoto adapter for it, currently with a Canon SLR T mount. It's been a gre...
A few bits and pieces when the sun came out today; 1 Red Fox 1 Comma Fungi; Pipe Club (loads) Fly Agaric Yellow Brain Fungus Dave -- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Thursday 13th of October 2011 11:49:24 PM
Organised a trip with some birding friends to this Ramsar wetland and migration hotspot. Fantastic scenery, friendly people and probably the best European birding I've yet experienced. 163 species in six days plus the spectacle of tens of thousands of waterbirds and a really heavy visible migrat...
Organised a trip in November 2010 to combine birding with a life-long wish to see the elusive Iberian Lynx. The valley of the Rio Andujar, in Jaen Province (two and a half hours from Malaga) offers the only realistic chance of success. Well off the beaten track, the scenery is glorious and the full comp...
Visited this woodland for the first time today. It is actually part
of my one of my tetrads for the BTO Atlas survey. Didn't get chance
to visit here during formal surveys - so thought would pay a visit
this afternoon. Well worth it!
In Lords Wood - 1 Treecreeper, 1 Nuthatch, 2 Coal Tit, 1 Great
Spot...
How do you count large flocks of Birds. Take a recent post for example,1030 Swallow,189 Swift. I can estimate up to 40ish but past that, its just a big flock
Sigma 150-500mm F5-6.3 zoom lens for sale. Canon fit. Less than 12 months old and in very good condition. Only used from October last year until June this year when I upgraded. All the packaging is still present plus the instructions, warranty, etc and it also has its own carrying case, detachable tri...
Got chance this afternoon to 'pop' out to Nateby to see the Solitary Sandpiper currently residing in a flood in a farmers field. Directions from RBA were very accurate and to make things even easier the farmer has opened one of his fields up as a car park at a reasonable cost of £4 per head and even has a few...
1 long tailed tit - on my new feeder
2 dunnocks - first time i have 2
2 blue tits - hear all day
1 great tit - quick appeariance
2 collard doves - i have names them freddie and phillip
2 song thrush - first time
1 chaffinch - my first male
1 coal tit - on my bird table
how do you tell the differance betwe...
I was thinking (only thinking, mind!) of possibly going down to norfolk at some point this october, with the intention of seeing Little Stint and other uncommon sandpipers on the beaches. Can anybody tell me a) whether you'd get any at all at that time of year and b) if so, where's the best place to go, as...
Dear oh dear! I've just visited the new 'Burton Mere" visitor centre/hide and the other new hide with Tony Darby. The visitor centre does not work as a combined hide - far too much hubbub - and the window prohibits good scope viewing of the scrape in front of it. The other hide - ostensibly a 'proper...
I was leading two fungi forays over the last two Saturdays, despite the bad weather for fungi there were a couple of good finds; Lilac Dapperling (only known site in GM for this species) - stinks of moth balls. Tiger's Eye - no known previous GM records Fiery Milkcap - new specie...
