First of all, many thanks to all those who have contributed to this website in 2009. All the significant records are entered in my daybook (records where there is no number given will not usually be entered up) You'll realise that these amount to several thousand records ( I think it was around 5000 las...
Help asked for, saw my first Ring Necked Duck today and just wondered why it's called this?. There is no ring on its neck, however there is one on its beak. Can anyone explain?.
Cheers Ian
Hi all you "Greater Mancunians."
After 17 years living in the N.East, it may seem presumptuous of me to even suppose to include myself among you, though I used to be a "Manchester based" birder before the majority of you were probably born, and I myself was born in Radcliffe af...
Couldn't resist the chance of a "lifer"on the final day of the year, so decided to go for the Drake Ferruginous Duck at Brookleys Lake. Arrived at 1.15pm and after a short time scanning the various ducks, managed to find it on the far bank where it was giving some really good views through the...
A couple of productive hours round Loch Ryan this afternoon saw the following:-
12 Slav Grebes
44 Red Throats
1 Great Northern Diver
7 Tysties
3 Long Tailed Ducks(inc 2 stonking males)
1 Red Necked Grebe
61 Pale Bellied Brents
1 Guillemot,
1000+ Scaup,simialar nos. of Wigeon,good nos. of R...
Hello all,
This Christmas I've been visiting my parents in Formby and whilst out for a walk I managed to get some nice shots of some Common Gulls. On further inspection of the photos I saw one of the birds had a ring on it's leg and I could read the code. Is there anywhere I can find out more about this bird?...
28th Dec.
A late afternoon walk at the site of last year's Snow Bunting. Bitterly cold and if it wasn't for corvids it would have been birdless. 6 Ravens topped the bill.
Cheers, John
For those people who don't regularly check the Manchester Birding website (you should do!), Ian is currently inviting people to take part in next year's Birding Tournament. If you think you might be interested click HERE...
Managed to get here despite manchester airport being closed for a few hours last night due to the snow. Staying wi family in Naul near Dublin. Back field full of birds. 54 redwing, 3 snipe, 13 lapwing, golden plover, linnet and a hooded crow. Merry christmas manchester birders!
I have just been watching
3 Snipe and about
20 Twite
4 Grey Wagtails
Robin
20 Malards
in a field were a stream flows in (Scobell st Church st Tottington, Bury)
Hi all,
I work for the Lancashire Wildlife Trust in Bolton and am currently aiding Bolton Council in their attempts to designate three sites as Local Nature Reserves. We have records from the past year for butterflies, bats, amphibians, vegetation, and dragonflies and are currently using these...
Coming in to work in Manchester university this morning I was met by a pipit walking towards me along the pavement in the snow in Dover Street (~0900 Upper Brook street end). I take it to have been a meadow pipit though views were rather limited once I'd found some bins and the call was a surprisingly stro...
Came across this site whilst looking for information on Lightshaw Hall. I am intrigued by the references to - 'Lightshaw Hall Flash is sacrosanct - NO paths please!' 'Say no to Lightshaw path' I hope to come bird watching to this area soon, what is being talked about? Look like there are some interesti...
Was out at the back of the airport this afternoon o the south side taking photographs(laden with kit) and my bins on their lanyard. The snow flurries were heavy and frequent. Got back to car and the bins had dropped off the lanyard and into the snow. Covered all my tracks to no avail. Was actually on a phot...
Was out at the back of the airport this afternoon o the south side taking photographs(laden with kit) and my bins on their lanyard. The snow flurries were heavy and frequent. Got back to car and the bins had dropped off the lanyard and into the snow. Covered all my tracks to no avail. Was actually on a phot...
I know its not Manchester Birding but Frodsham Marsh is one of the premier birding sites in the North West. Someone mentioned this to me at the weekend and apparently they are going to turn it into a windfarm. Apart from the major loss of loss of north west bird habitat in future as you drive to chester / no...
Regarding the previous thread,there is no doubt Comorants are stripping some fisheries of vast numbers of fish.Pennington Flash has several "year classes" of fish almost completely absent,the ones that are missing are the ones that are most suitable sizewise as food for the comorant...
everyone has probably read the signs on the res but they are going to be doing pretty impressive works and repairs to the mains sliuces, three of them to get them back into working order, repairs to the wall on the dam and repairs to the dam itself, and as already announced draining the res fully.
If you care about the long term future of wildlife in general and bird life in particular, (whether or not you accept that global warming results from human activity), tonight's Horizon programme on Beeb 2 may be of interest.
The subject is Attenborough on human population growth. I suggest it sho...
Perhaps a little late for some, but I am sure our loved ones, from time to time read what we put on here, so a chance to give a gentle remainder, perhaps or just a wish list.
Me I would like a nice copy of Audubon and his Journals 2 vols. pub 1976
or Birds of Siberia-Seebohm.
Happy Yuletide
i am working in bulgaria next week for a few days and may have a day free if all goes well. has anyone any personal experience of good birding places to visit there? am staying/working in sofia.
cheers in advance
paul.
Hallo all,
We have been discussing the number of Wood Pigeons on the Moss on the vismig group. I can't remember as a kid the large flocks that are found today. Does anyone have any data on numbers, and when the Moss became so popular for the species.
Thanks.
Eddie
A friend of mine (non-birder - oooh, stringy! ) saw what he is adamant was a Red Kite hanging about over the M60 just past the bridge over the ship canal before the M62 junction on the west side of the motorway. I've seen Buzzards whilst driving over the bridge before, but he swears it was fork tailed and no...
I was quite surprised to get very good views of a red kit being mobbed this afternoon over the M6 near Euxton [just south of junction 28]. At a few hundred metres away I picked up the angle of the wings and for a second thought "I wonder if that's a really late osprey heading south..." , then as it...
