late posting this. went up last monday hoping to find a tawny owl which had been seen recently with young. felt like we checked every tree in the whole wood but no owl tawny owls are becoming our bogey bird!! however we got stunning views of a kingfisher sat perched on a post from hide at back of visitor cen...
I am just at the end stages of purchasing a new lense for a canon 550d camera, after all my pondering and picking the other photographers brains on here, i seem to be still stuck with the issue of which lense is best????
To me these seem to be the best two lenses without having to sell my house, or i could g...
First visit to this excellent site yesterday. Redstart and Tree Pipit, at least 7 of each species giving fantastic views. Also Green Woodpecker, Spotted Flycatcher, Raven, Cuckoo heard plus all the usual woodland species.
Take road out of Barbon to Dent for about 2 miles then park, cross bridge ov...
called in briefly today,(2.15ish) to watch my 1st hobby within 5 minutes of arriving. i feel i owe manchester birding a big thankyou for information which has enabled me to see 2 life firsts in a matter of weeks, namely the dover basin osprey and now the hobby. two amazing birds of prey. heres to many mor...
I went over to Australia for a week, the main reason being my couson's wedding, but I also organised a full day's birding with a guide called Steve Davidson, who runs a guiding company called The Melbourne Birder. A web search will bring up his website for those who are interested. Or let me know and I'll...
the sighting occured today about 4.00pm on Astley Moss. it was on the track bend past the feeding station off rindle rd. it was definately an adult wagtail but was totaly grey with a black tail. i saw it and another chap who appeared quite an experienced bird watcher, but we both were at a loss. anybody ou...
Just got back from a few days staying at a mates in Portsmouth.
Saturday
Weather was a bit wet and windy but we managed to see a few Med Gulls(400 pairs nesting there!!!),Little Terns,Sandwich Terns,and Common Terns.A quick look at Farlington Marshes in the rain produced a couple of Little Egrets b...
Went to Old Moor last night in the vain hope of seeing the Savi's Warbler, which sang, or rather reeled brilliantly, but decided against adding 130 or so birds to its British List.
The highlight of the night was the 'reeling' battle between the savi's and a gropper!
Incidentally, if anyone is thin...
TURTLE DOVE this morning at 11am on wires by the old detached house along Pendlebury Lane at Haigh CP, Wigan. Access the lane from Leyland Mill Lane.
Info thanks to Ian Woosey
An altogether genuine county rarity these days with only a very small handful of records since the turn of the milleni...
Hi,
wondered if anybody could recomend a set of bird song cd's? Or if anyone had a set on MP3 that they could share?
My bird song is letting me down somewhat and I need to work on this aspect.
Thanks
John
The first 4 days of Atlas recording has seen Bill Myerscough, Simon Hitchen and I clock up a total of 63 species in the 10km square SD91. This includes Blackstone Edge, Hollingworth Lake, the Piethorne Valley and Watergrove. Not bad considering only 83 species were recorded during the Winter Pilot w...
Can anyone offer advice / recommendations as to what scope would be the best buy on a £300 budget? The sheer number of reviews on the internet are mind-boggling so I thought that I'd ask the people who know best! Cheers, Mark
With today's weather being a bit unsettled, I decided that a trip to Ogston Reservoir was in order for the reported Red-Rumped Swallow.
On arriving at around 3.30pm, the bird was soon in the bins viewable from the West Car Park flying around the buoys and catching insects with the House Martins, Swa...
(the birds, not the band)
Apart from the odd one or two over Pennington Flash and Scotman's Flash at the start of the month, I haven't seen any! They're usually around my home town of Ashton-in-Makerfield by the second week of April...
First visit ever here. At 12 noon 3 Black-tailed Godwits, increasing when we strolled back at 12.30 to 15 birds, having peered with some difficulty over to Lightshaw Hall Flash from the towpath in the meantime and seen perhaps 6 Black-tailed Godwits fly across a gap; so in all about 15/21 birds presen...
Happy to report that after last years low numbers the area is buzzing this morning with birds checking out the houses ready for nest building duties , had 7 this morning before work .
I've received the following email:
I will be traveling to the Manchester area and would like to go
>> birdwatching either Friday, May 28 or Saturday, May 29. Would you
>> or do you know someone who would be interesting in providing
>> guiding services for me?
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A Buzzard flew low across Princess Parkway this afternoon.It was lucky not to get hit by a car!It landed on a small patch of rough ground adjacent to the Bridge at the side of the of the road,[I think it was the Northern Moor slip road]. Perhaps it saw some carrion there? -- Edited by Marvin Lewis on Monday...
9.30 am kingfishers showing well along river irwell,plenty of whitethroats,chiffchaffs,swifts,sand martins,swallows,also blackcap,lapwing,heron,jay,pied wag,tufted ducks,buzzard over 13 arches and pair of great crested grebes on lake.
Hello,
Could someone help my fading/faded memory, please?
I will be in Tyldesley this weekend, and might get to take my father out to look at some birds. He is 86, so it needs to be something easy. I know about Pennington Flash, having been there a few times, but I remember seeing a website of a reserv...
I was always under the impression that Country Parks were supposed to at least maintain habitat and in most cases actually improve it. Sadly in the area where I live it would appear to be the opposite.
Etherow CP and Werneth Low CP are where I do a lot of birding and quite frankly some of the work carried o...
im having a small problem identifying these two by their song. the whitethroat is ok because i see them and so i hear them however the lesser i find very elusive but i think i sometimes hear them. does anyone else have this id problem with the lesser, regards to all, mike
