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
Purchased in May 2007 from Pennie Photographic and Binocular Centre. These binoculars have been well looked after and are in extremely good condition with no sctratches and come complete with box, carry case, original receipt and ten year warranty. The optical quality is excellent for the price....
sightings while doing a survey today around crooke 2 buzzards 3 nuthatch 2 g s woodpeckers 2 coal tits 3 cormorants flew over and 7 goosanders flew up the river douglas and finished off with a fox walking along the field back of gathurst station ...
Hi, on friday my family are off to the pyrenees on a holiday. Its a family holiday so obviously birding will not be a priority, but in such a place I was hoping to make the most of the new surroundings and supposedly good wildlife. I was wondering, does anyone know any good spots for birding (either in spai...
I found Ian's article about the Greenfield Great Snipe of 1979 and the intriguing photographs most enjoyable. Wouldn't it be something to find one on Horrocks's Flash next month? After all, dreams do sometimes come true. One of the big events this year was the Cley occurrence in early May of an adult G...
Some forum members will already have heard, but there has been some very sad news over the last week concerning a stalwart of the Manchester Birding scene; more for his contribution to the birds than to birding per se. Alf Neild, husband of Chris Neild, and leading light in Shell Carrington Nature Res...
Gripping yarns - Bill Oddie Wild Merseyside - John Dempsey A sky full of starlings + This birding life - Stephen Moss (no dust jackets) Birds of Britain and Europe - John Gooders Arrivals and rivals; a birding oddity - Adrian Riley (ex-library) Tales of a tabloid twitcher - Stuart Winter Birds in Great...
I have been lucky enough to get a new Zeiss Diascope. So I am selling my old scope which is a Zeiss Diascope 85 TFL with a 20-60X zoom lens and a stay on case. I bought this second hand from Kay Optical in April 2010 for £1,400. It is in very good condition. If you are interested contact Mike on 07742908182 or e...
Today i came back to a feral pigeon that had been killed by a sparrowhawk in the garden, apparently only disturbed off it a few minutes earlier
I assumed it would have been a female that had killed such large prey, but later i noticed a male sparrowhawk returning to the kill, only to be disturbed...
Hi all, Just a quick request for help really - from the thread, this place sounds great and I would like to at least be in the same area as a Quail, so I can dip on it spectacularly. Can anybody tell me if there is a bus or train that would take me close to the mosses from Manchester city centre? I don't know the a...
. 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...
