Now's the ideal time to count Rookeries, before the leaves come on the trees. I've a suspicion they are in decline in Greater Manchester, so any counts will be very welcome...
Just a reminder that this week is the best chance to see Bitterns departing the area to return to their breeding sites - there is a full moon on 19th. Bitterns may also turn up in strange places this week!
Although I've never seen this, they are supposed to spiral up from reedbeds at dusk.
Northenden is my new 'neck of the woods', so have started to mooch around Kenworthy Lane Woods a fair bit.
12/3/11KL Woods
Female Sparrowhawk perched, then on patrol
R. Mersey
Flock L/T Tits at very close range
Grey Wagtail
Reed Bunting (m)
3 x Mistle Th...
Now that another WeBS season has finished, could I ask everyone to send their results to Adrian Dancy as soon as possible, or enter them up online, as I need the 2010 counts for the county report? Thanks.
Also, if anyone has photos they have not already sent me, and they are not on this website, but want t...
Syd brook and surrounding fields , Had 2 pairs of teal , 1 heron , flushed a woodcock twice ( same bird ) highlight was finding a half built long tailed tit nest in a small bramble patch .
From Birdguides today - keep those eyes to the skies
14:50 10/03/11 Sand Martin Suffolk Thorington Street
12:30 10/03/11 Northern Wheatear Guernsey Pulias Headland
Also a load of Frogspawn appeared in my pond
l've been asked by a fellow nanny what alternative food there are for their charges to feed the ducks. l know in Dunham Massey Park, you can buy duck food from the shop but where can we buy stuff from locally ?
thanks...
I'm new to this site so have probably got this all wrong; not sure that this is a "new" topic as have seen some entries re redpolls/mealy redpolls from February.
Last week and today, we have had 1 male redpoll then 2 female (?mealy) redpolls on our nyger seed feeder. Surprised that one of the...
THEN WHERE OF INDIAN HILLS THE DAYLIGHT TAKES
HIS LEAVE HOW MIGHT YOU THE FLAMINGO SEE
DISPORTING LIKE A METEOR ON THE LAKES
CAMPBELL FROM HIS GERTRUDE OF WYOMING
Nipped in home bargains at Swinton today,they have boxes of 100 zeiss optical wipes for 99p. Loads of stores around Manchester. -- Edited by phil ogden on Saturday 19th of February 2011 06:25:11 AM
The RSPCA tell me that the infection affecting Mute Swans at Southport and Fleetwood has now spread to birds at Pennington Flash and Three Sisters where there are concentrations of non-breeding birds. Birds showing signs of illness are being taken the RSPCA's wildlife hospital at Stapeley Grange...
A Buzzard was mobbed by 4 Crows over the M66 Junc3 ie the Pilsworth Junction moving south-east ish! at about 5.30pm
Is it ok to have a separate thread for wandering Buzzards over the county?
Too wet for Atlas TTVs yesterday (Weds 17th). After spending most of the morning entering up last year's records for Judith, then visiting the dentist, I could stand it no more and ventured out into the soggy world. Rewarded by flushing a Woodcock on Heron Lane just two minutes walk from home - first ev...
After the Ring Billed Gull in Yorkshire today I carried on east to look for the Rough Legged Buzzard.
First off I saw what I believed to be a Common Buzzard just before the cement works on my way to the first pull in west of the works themselves. There I met a very helpful chap [an Elton regular no less] and...
Birds are already nest building on the River Sett at New Mills.
South Manchester Ringing Group will be visiting the River Tame upstream of Stalybridge starting next week, weather permitting, for year 5 of the colour ringing, nest recording and Retrapping Adults for Survival project.
Your Dippe...
A ride down to the caravan yesterday to open it up for the summer. Managed to grab 20 minutes at Dulas estuary mud flats. 1 Yellow Legged Gull (a first for me on Anglesey) 2 Common Sandpiper 5 Whimbrel 1 Little Egret 6 Sandwich Tern 12 Shelduck 1 Wheatear 4 Oystercatcher Plus all the other usual birds. -- E...
AN ENGLISH ARCHER BENT HIS BOW
MADE OF A TRUSTY TREE
AN ARROW OF A CLOTH-YARD LONG
UNTO THE HEAD DREW HE
AGAINST SIR HUGH MONTGOMERY
SO RIGHT HIS SHAFT HE SET
THE GRAY GOOSE WING THAT WAS THEREON
IN HIS HEARTS BLOOD WAS WET
WILLOUGHBY POEM DESCIBING GOOSE FEATHER ARROW FLIGHTS
An evening walk through the reserve with the last hour of light to see what was moving, and it was a pleasure to hear so much birdsong.
5 longtail tits
2 pair bullfinch
large numbers of Blue and Great tits, robins and blackbirds m & Fs
1 wren
1dunnock
5 song thrushes
30 jackdaws
2 Carrion Cro...
WHY ORE THE VERDANT BANKS OF OUSE
DOES YONDER HALCYON SPEED SO FAST
TIS ALL BECAUSE SHE WOULD NOT LOSE
HER FAVOURITE CALM WHICH WILL NOT LAST
SHENSTONE
A flock of 12 have been visiting my garden throughout the day.
First sighted them at approx 10am this morning in the tall trees in my back garden watched them through my binoculars for a good half hour, before they flew off towards Fog Lane Park.
Again 10 minutes ago 2.20pm same amount feeding in the b...
