RSPB walk today in beautiful weather. Birds seen included 50+ swallows lined out on the power line next to Bradbury's farm and feeding up over the grazing sheep. 2 wheatear still up near Chew Res. Lots of meadow pipits (at least 30 counted on a walk of 8 miles). 1 sparrow hawk soaring over Rob's rocks. 4 r...
i have just bought my first digital slr. how do i connect it to my scope. is it a universal connecter or do i need a speciel one . camera is sony, scope is camlink thanks, simon
on saturday afternoon 3rd sept. around 4.45 i was cyclin down the rochdale canal path between foxdenton lane and the boat and horses . there was a bright blue flash on the far side going from one bush to the other .seeing this i stopped only to see it go back the other way ,this has undoubtably got to be a kin...
Thanks to Paul Brady of the RSPB Dee Estuary Team, Manchester Birding has been very generously invited to an exclusive pre-opening guided tour of the brand new fantastic Burton Mere Wetlands at Inner Marsh Farm RSPB. The tour will be on the 14th September and as there's a maximum of 30 birders permitt...
Somewhat "pumped up" with enthusiasm over the phalarope experience from Saturday's trip down into Gr. Manchester, and while keeping one eye on the Wales/ South Africa Rugby match today, I was thumbing through old bird reports digesting previous phalarope occurences in the county and...
Chorley Photographic Society are holding an Evening with Ben Hall at 8pm on Monday 12th September. Entrance is by ticket only which are available in limited numbers on their website http://www.chorleyps.org/?page_id=2445 So far, tickets are still available. For those who have not heard of Ben H...
Just returned from our tour of South West Wales namely a week in Freshwater East and a week in Cenarth Falls Week1 Goldfinches Blue tits Great tits Blackbirds Chaffinches Robins Buzzards Kestrels Swifts Swallows Cormorants at least 200 Great black backs Black headed Fulmers Herring gull Oyster ca...
The Video Guide to British Birds (surely some of Wiganers still have videos?) by Birdguides, volumes 1 to 5 covering 260 species. Any offer considered, contact Phil on p.greenwood1@ntlworld.com -- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Saturday 3rd of September 2011 06:34:25 PM
After 3 hours on Pennington and it started to go dark, left for home extremely happy and chuffed with an afternoons birding,problem is when I have got home with my notes was identifying what I have actually seen , Have the RSPB pocket Book on Birds , can anyone recommend a book which will help with identi...
Hello, I have a confession and so to confirm rumours of the GM's birding scene worst kept secret, I would like to confirm that I am currently attempting a county year list for 2011. It had started out as a light hearted attempt by myself to see as many species as possible as until recently I hadn't spent th...
Since I couldn't find a thread for this site, I thought i'd start one . Its a brilliant little island, 6 miles off the Fife coast near to Anstruther. Its Britain's oldest bird observatory, based in the 'low light', the newest of the island's three lighthouses, and where we were staying (we bein...
Reluctant sale of the following items in excellent condition: Two year old Carl Zeiss Straight Diascope Victory 85T*FL with 20 x 60 lens. The scope comes with a superb Velbon Sherpa Pro PH-157Q tripod and carry case, Neoprene cover and a Velbon HC - 25/28 hide clamp. The complete package today would s...
Hawke blackwatch 8x42 porro (rrp was- £89). Missing the eyecups as these were poor quality towards the otherwise solidly-built bins that are otherwise fine and the optics are still suberb - £15 P.M. me or send text to 07783555780 Cheers, Mark -- Edited by Mark Evans on Saturday 14th of May 2011 11:47:...
FREE: (OR if you are generous, a small donation of £10 for Lancashire Wildlife Trust would be kind ) Various issues of "Birdwatch" & "BirdWatching" magazines (76 IN TOTAL), dating from 2004, the only stipulation being that they have to be collected (from Wigan), a...
by Lucas Jenni & Raffael Winkler.
There must be someone out there who has a copy of this book collecting dust and wishes it went to a good home, at the right price of course?
cheers
jason
7.30 pm a pair of hobbys over timperley lane, warrington rd heading northwest, regards mike -- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Saturday 20th of August 2011 02:08:02 PM
Late report for yesterday ! Quite a lot of activity including, Buzzard, 2 Ravens .100+ mixed flocks swallows,house martins and 1 swift( late here) all moving south.
Had a good hours bird watching from my garden window last weekend. Sigtings were:
Blackbird - 5
Song Thrush - 2 (being hassled by the blackbirds)
Robin - 1
Wren - 2 or 3
House Sparrow - 10+
Collared Dove - 2
Great Tit - 2
Blue Tit - 2
Coal Tit - 2
Greenfinch - 2
Goldfinch - 2
Dunnock - 1
Woodpigeon -...
after a walk in the rain yesterday afternoon: some good sightings 1 cormorant 1 kingfisher 1 dipper all on fishing lodge. 1 dipper 3 grey wagtail on river. 1 buzzard in meadow. plus usual. -- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Friday 1st of April 2011 08:56:40 PM
Hi, This may be of interest to photographers one here. A chance to get your images featured in a touring exhibition: http://www.naturallycurious.co.uk/tree-competition While it's tree-themed, not bird themed, "wildlife in trees" is acceptable. So that should open it up.
To start with, I readily acknowledge that this is a mildly depressing subject to raise as we go into the autumn, when we anticipate a degree of excitement and the appearance of "something good." We also generally hold to the view that the harder we work and flog our local patches, the more l...
Why not join the free walk to Featherbed Moss on Thursday the 11th August? Please see the full details on the County Notice Board page of the Manchester Birding website.
Had a short walk in the area this morning:
Great Crested Grebe
Skylark
Sparrowhawk (male and female soaring high)
Grasshopper Warbler (south of fir tree flash in reedy area west of path) reeling and showing well
. Its a brilliant little island, 6 miles off the Fife coast near to Anstruther. Its Britain's oldest bird observatory, based in the 'low light', the newest of the island's three lighthouses, and where we were staying (we bein...
) Various issues of "Birdwatch" & "BirdWatching" magazines (76 IN TOTAL), dating from 2004, the only stipulation being that they have to be collected (from Wigan), a...
