Following on from the brief exchange of comments recently on the Chorlton WP thread about the usage of voice recorders for logging bird records and whether they might be better than/worse than/no different from a traditional field notebook. I have for the last 6 or 7 years always carried a voice reco...
Post your entries here for the first chiffchaff of 2010.
Winners could win the prestigious prize of Manchester Birdings top regional chiffchaffer.
Once we have chiffchaffed out please feel free to post first blackcap, sedge warbler, reed warbler, willow etc.
I went out today hoping to stea...
Last Thursday as I was driving down Stanley Road,Cheadle Hulme I saw a couple of Crows stood on top of a lamp standard.One of them looked very much like a Hooded Crow.As I thought I was in Cheshire I didn't bother to stop to check it out,it wasn't till I got home and checked the A-Z that I realised I was just i...
Went to see if I could find the Bittern that's been reported on the canal at Carnforth. It was a good 1/2 km past where it had last been reported but what a stunning experience.
The canal was quite busy with walkers, joggers and dog walkers which seems to have made the Bittern totally unconcerned with h...
I forgot to post this one. Last week we had a walk around the moor edges up Chew Valley and as we crossed the access road at the valley head, a flock of finches flew over. My inital thought was Twite, but I didnt have my bins. It was pretty windy so I dint really catch their sound. I have just listened to Twite o...
One of my work colleagues was telling me this morning that he has had a Golden Pheasant in his Marple Dale garden on both days of the weekend feeding on the scraps dropping from his feeders. He was interested enough to look up information on the birds and found that there are reported approximately 120 b...
7-8 Waxwings in the car park of The Range warehouse at Astley Bridge. This is the other side of the lights from ASDA where they often have been in pervious years, but still on the ring road round Bolton. Thanks to Frank Obertelli.
Spent the day at marton mere target birds were chetis warbler and long eared owl and with hawk eye wife Mary beside me we /she got them both.
The 2 long eared owls were showng at the side of the path alongside the golf course and the chetis next to the hide closest to the caravan park which is also a good spot...
2 great crested grebe 2 tuffted duck 2 canadian geese 6 bh gull 4 jackdaw 5 magpie 4 mallard -- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Saturday 13th of March 2010 09:37:31 AM
Still 3 Little Egret on site, also bar-tailed and black-tailed Godwits showing well as were 42 plus Avocet in front of Nel's Hide. Good view of Merlin hunting also.
On my way to work this morning just come onto the East Lancs A580 i was in the middle lane stationary in traffic when at 7.48am a Common Crane flew north at middling height and headed away over Wardley Industrial Estate, lucky I had my bins on the passenger seat!!
Today at 12:00 a (jammy!) Lancashire birder, Bill Aspin, had not one but two Red Kites just east of Ashworth Moor Reservior. The first bird went south over Knowl Hill (where the lucky observer was) and incredibly was joined by a second bird just east of Ashworth Moor Reservoir. Both were very high and w...
I really enjoyed reading the first class article with brilliant photos on our precious Tree Sparrow population in GM in the Species Study section, which is in the "Articles, Identification Issues and Reviews" section on the home page of the website for those who may have missed it. It's a...
Just a warning to all Mum's, Dad's and carers!
Just a word of warning if you are thinking of taking kids to Martin Mere by train - the walk from the station to the Mere on the new footpath is not suitable for under 5's or pushchairs/buggies.
I took my 2 1/2 year old {who today has walked the full length of...
I appreciate that we all hold The Manchester Bird Forum website very close to our hearts and what is on it, within it and shared between those who use it is fantastic. However, without wanting to upset the administrator, whom I am very thankful to, I thought I'd start a new thread (althuogh I stand corre...
Got a flyer thro' the door from local labour councillor stating that Salford council are proposing turn Barton moss (including golf course) into an industrial estate. I have sent it as an email to Ian and Judith (with cries for help) as i can't get it to post. All objections to be in by 15-1-2010. Iam hop...
At around 2:45pm today Judith Smith was pretty sure she had around 10 Waxwings flying over Gigg Lane. That area has been used by Waxwings before and the trees there had plenty of berries. Unfortunately Judith didn't have time to follow her sighting up so it's well worth checking out if you're in the are...
went to whythy park to see what was about.
Gib Wood-
G S Woodpecker
Nuthatch
Great,Blue & L/T tits
Field near statue-
25 Crows
11 Magpies
2 Jays
Hall Gardens-
Green Woodpecker
Chaffinch
Rhody Wood-
G S Woodpecker
Lots of nuthatch
Lots of B,G& L T Tits
Received call last night re Snow Bunting. Reliable source and good description.
Seen Wednesday on Pennine Way north of Brun Clough Resr on A62. Head north on Pennine Way, taking main path. Bird was seen less than 100 yards past the kissing gate (in Greater Manchester!). Very confiding. Had been se...
Below is a typical "objection" to the ludicrous plans to build an industrial estate on a large area of green belt at the Cutacre site, which rather sums up the situation accurately.
"I, with hundreds of others, registered my objection in the informal consultation period, to the p...
a great tit constantly lands on my back door handle and pecks the pvc 2 or 3 times then flies into a bush.seconds later he is back again doing it again.in fact hes doing it right now! in tyhe last week or so he has done it hundreds of times.its not hunger because there is suet and peanuts in the tree.just wond...
I have heard on the grapevine that there are thousands of Waxwings congregated in southern Sweden. If the winds are favorable, could we see another invasion this year?
