I'm no expert by a long way.But my nephew baffled me at the weekend. He asked whats the difference between a hawk and falcon? Looked through a few books but can not find the answer. I know allyou experts out there will no.cheers
Please excuse my copying a press release here, but this new survey should make a significant contribution to the national Bird Atlas project and the planned Greater Manchester Breeding Birds Atlas. What Steve Atkins has found from his analysis of our data is that breeding records of common birds ar...
If anyone was thinking of visiting Bolton town centre to see the Peregrines this weekend. Please don't. There is a huge demonstration going on on sat and whole town centre is practically sealed off all weekend. A lot of trouble is expected with hundreds of police drafted in.
Cheers Dean.
One heard only over Ashton -on-Mersey by John Butterworth on Monday 15th at 1545hrs. He was indoors at the time but the window was open. By the time he got outside, it had disappeared.
hi all..my uncle really enjoys birdwatching but we dont like him goin out on his own because he is disabled and only capable of walking really slowly. he would like a friend to go with preferably someone who has mobility problems. he would prefer someone who can drive so they can take it in turns to drive...
3 little egrets and a single great white egret in front of Griesdale Hide all this afternoon; along with a single male peregrine that was showing off brilliantly to a hide-full of eager spectators. It spent at least 2 hours intermittently swooping from one dead tree to another and preening, only abou...
A Wheatear was in a field nr Brook Farm, nr Altrincham Crematorium, Carrington Moss, on Tuesday March 16th. (Information from Peter Day, former county recorder) A Chiffchaff was singing not far from the Tom Edmundson hide at Pennington Flash this morning, too. -- Edited by Judith Smith on Thursday...
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...
