Hi All, for anyone interested i have a Carl Zeiss Diascope 85T FL Spotting Scope, and a NIKON 80A SPOTTING SCOPE + TWO EYEPIECES up for auction on Ebay, reason for sale I have bought a Swarovski ATS 80,,, Zeiss auction number 130496937791 Nikon auction number 130496960130 Thanks happy birding -- Edit...
Looking for a copy of Sylvia Warblers Hadoram Shirihai et al. If anyone has a spare copy, or wishes to sell theirs please send me a PM, thanks. Keep Birding. -- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Monday 8th of August 2011 03:27:36 PM
Keith Mills wrote: Is it me but has YORKSHIRE disappeared off the Forum.
It used to be under North East England but that has gone too.
Yorkshire is I believe our biggest county
A technical issue now resolved. Thanks for bringing it to my attention though I'm not sure I need reminding of how bi...
A small flock of about 10 Jackdaws have taken up residence on St catherines church in scholes, I watched them late sunday afternoon as they chased a flock of Starlings off the chuch spire, I have seen them flying in the scholes area for a while now. I thought they where rooks at first but after checking th...
Work has started on upgrading the towpath from Bamfurlong Bridge on the A58 to Plank Lane lift bridge. This means that sections of the towpath will be closed off whilst imprinted concrete is laid - currently access is closed at the A58 bridge.
From the A58 bridge to Dover Bridge on the A573 it is possib...
Looking at several recent postings on the sightings page, I notice that some folk are beginning to take advantage of the earlier sunrise, and are out there taking on the world at 6.30 a.m. Now whilst I admire their dedication, and would not seek to question their sanity, I do pose the question: why so ea...
If anyone finds a small (1cm diameter) camera shutter knob in the hide it's mine! I was using my camera to photo the Avocet yesterday, and when I took it out to hopefully photo the Slav Grebe at Audi, it was missing this vital knob. (it's for a Nikon Coolpix 4500)
Now that the reporting of big flocks of Waxwings has dwindled and sightings are now down to a couple or single birds.
Do these waywards who have lost thier flocks, make it back to Scandanavia or get lost en-route or do they stay around for the summer.
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...
