No, not by a peregrine or even a marauding gull, but a gannet.
On Sunday this gannet decided it wanted to sit well away from the main gannet colony, on a ledge where guillemots were breeding, and there was some understandable threat behaviour going on.
Then the gannet's big flappy feet dislodged a...
I recently mentioned in another post about the number of photographers I had seen one day in Bunting Hide at Pennington. It was also quite enlightening today at Abram to see just how many folk were there with cameras as opposed to scopes. It started me thinking. Ten years ago photographers were a much r...
Reet. The weather is scorching. I`m tetchy. I`m in the mood for a rant.... I have received through my door today the "Impact" magazine from the RSPB. They send it out to members who actively campaign/donate to specific projects. I (sometimes) do the latter, hence the receipt of the said ra...
Having viewed the site I note a Red Kite has been seen flying over Sharples towards Egerton. I have today seen a Red Kite 100% positve sighting over the Egerton Moor off Longworth Road.
I was awoke last night (4am) by a bird noise that gradually got closer and closer and then further and further as though it flew straight past my house (Moss Bank, St Helens).
To my uneducated ears it sounded like a wader - I willnow attempt to describe the sound:
singular note repeating of even pitc...
A round of applause, please, for John Harrison who farms at Moss House Farm and Malkin Wood Farm on Worsley Moss. He moved 45 clutches of Lapwing eggs this spring when rolling his fields, and put them all back again. Most of them fledged and they had a very good season.
Some farmers do care!
A Red Kite over Romiley at 5.15 this evening going south. It was just by St. Chad's church and not much higher than the spire. It might be hanging around the Chadkirk/Goyt Valley area if anyone is out that way tonight.
Good luck.
Andy
not a good sight yesterday,while i was watching the sandmartins weaving about like they do over ther bank on the river, i saw a mink crossing the river and enter there nesting sites well all hell broke loose there were twice of many martins all at once as if from no where.i must of been there for a good hour...
Had a look at this area today, off the A6 near Westhoughton, for a TTV . There's a large industrial estate within the tetrad. I heard but didn't see, Oystercatcher, and wondered if they could be breeding on one of the roofs there, as they do in Heywood and Rochdale. If there's anyone out there who works on...
Visited today and glad to report that there seemed to be more Little terns this year. Also plenty of Arctic terns but the Warden was concerned about the high levels of gull predation. Most birds have nested on the right hand side beneath the grassy embankment so you cannot actually see many nests, but p...
As we probably have many fluffy fledglings decimating your feeders at the moment, a little bit of a reminder about desease and garden feeders and to keep your feeding area clean. We have noticed (first time I have seen signs of this disease) a young Greenfinch, a particularly subsectable bird to this...
Both Ian McKerchar and I are having problems with Orange email at present (as it John Tymon and anyone else using Orange as a server). Emails we are sending are not reaching their destinations, particularly to NTL World, Tiscali and AOL servers. Orange are very apologetic but don't seem to have any ra...
drinkwater lake: pair of great crested grebes with 2 young, coots with young.
on river: 8 female goosander,tufted ducks, mute swan, mallards, coot, moorhen, swifts, house martins, pied wag, grey wag. no sign of kingfishers but did see a mink swimming across river.
Hi everybody. just joined manchester birding. my main patches are frodsham marshes, chester, moore nature reserve. spent a few early mornins on frodsham marsh. flock of sand martins nr canal.pair avocets with 2 young on no 6. ruddy duck.loadsa whitethroat, warblers, cuckoo(male) and a huge infe...
Can Cokatiels and Budgies survive for long in the wild,I have been told that they are attacked by other birds for being strange.
If so how do Ringed Necked Parakeets survive ?.
A sweep of some of our Barn Owl boxes today found 16 young in 7 boxes, 11 of which were large enough to ring. Another box had eggs only, and one box had failed completely after young were seen earlier in the month. A better than expected result given the cold winter.
As I was waiting for the bus on Saturday morning a goldcrest appeared and started hovering in the manner of a humming bird on the sunny side of a lampost picking up insects and working its way up. It was about 6ft away from me. When it finished with the lampost it disappeared momentarily into the branches...
hi could anyone on here suggest a camera,i have got the bug really bad ,out all the time and at the moment am using my daughters camera which is a nikon coolpix l100,but it just hasent got the edge i think i have taken some good pictures,well good for me but when i put them on the laptop to see them at home they...
sad to report that a friend of mine found what i think is a female little owl (it has hardly any feathers on it's legs and belly) dead in a bucket of water the horses use to drink from.
she, if it is a she, appears to have a broken neck - am assuming she flew into something and landed in the bucket.
i have it i...
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I have been getting slightly worried recently about the lack of house martins I have seen this year compared to previous years, with my first of the year coming only a couple of weeks ago, and that was only a quick flyby by 2 birds. But thankfully I was working on the Birtles Hall country estate on the edge...
After being fascinated by the sound and size of watching some youtube footage of Great Reed Warblers I took a very early morning detour to Ilkeston today and had brilliant views in the sunshine as the bird moved around the reed bed it is frequenting. To see a thrush sized warbler was very interesting an...
Over this coming weekend, a visiting Aussie birder will be residing in Manchester City Centre. He will be based at the MacDonald Hotel on London Road (just off the Mancunian Way) and would dearly like to get out birding with a Manchester Birder.
He would require being picked up from the hotel but a...
hi new to this obsesion,bird watching and taking photo of them,cannot belive what ihave seen already.kingfisher,greenfinch bullfinch,goldfinch buzzard,kestral,goosander and her babies i have really been bitten by this bug iam out all the time.on the pond in the field where my horse lives the l...
I have 2 water stations which the birds use repeatedly.
This morning I thought the garden needed a good watering,then when I finnished and put the hose away,all the local Blackbirds were there in a flash,plus a couple of Mistle Thush,
As the ground is so hard this year I ask please dont forget the loca...
