Couldn't resist the chance of a "lifer"on the final day of the year, so decided to go for the Drake Ferruginous Duck at Brookleys Lake. Arrived at 1.15pm and after a short time scanning the various ducks, managed to find it on the far bank where it was giving some really good views through the...
A couple of productive hours round Loch Ryan this afternoon saw the following:-
12 Slav Grebes
44 Red Throats
1 Great Northern Diver
7 Tysties
3 Long Tailed Ducks(inc 2 stonking males)
1 Red Necked Grebe
61 Pale Bellied Brents
1 Guillemot,
1000+ Scaup,simialar nos. of Wigeon,good nos. of R...
Hello all,
This Christmas I've been visiting my parents in Formby and whilst out for a walk I managed to get some nice shots of some Common Gulls. On further inspection of the photos I saw one of the birds had a ring on it's leg and I could read the code. Is there anywhere I can find out more about this bird?...
28th Dec.
A late afternoon walk at the site of last year's Snow Bunting. Bitterly cold and if it wasn't for corvids it would have been birdless. 6 Ravens topped the bill.
Cheers, John
For those people who don't regularly check the Manchester Birding website (you should do!), Ian is currently inviting people to take part in next year's Birding Tournament. If you think you might be interested click HERE...
Managed to get here despite manchester airport being closed for a few hours last night due to the snow. Staying wi family in Naul near Dublin. Back field full of birds. 54 redwing, 3 snipe, 13 lapwing, golden plover, linnet and a hooded crow. Merry christmas manchester birders!
I have just been watching
3 Snipe and about
20 Twite
4 Grey Wagtails
Robin
20 Malards
in a field were a stream flows in (Scobell st Church st Tottington, Bury)
Hi all,
I work for the Lancashire Wildlife Trust in Bolton and am currently aiding Bolton Council in their attempts to designate three sites as Local Nature Reserves. We have records from the past year for butterflies, bats, amphibians, vegetation, and dragonflies and are currently using these...
Coming in to work in Manchester university this morning I was met by a pipit walking towards me along the pavement in the snow in Dover Street (~0900 Upper Brook street end). I take it to have been a meadow pipit though views were rather limited once I'd found some bins and the call was a surprisingly stro...
Came across this site whilst looking for information on Lightshaw Hall. I am intrigued by the references to - 'Lightshaw Hall Flash is sacrosanct - NO paths please!' 'Say no to Lightshaw path' I hope to come bird watching to this area soon, what is being talked about? Look like there are some interesti...
Was out at the back of the airport this afternoon o the south side taking photographs(laden with kit) and my bins on their lanyard. The snow flurries were heavy and frequent. Got back to car and the bins had dropped off the lanyard and into the snow. Covered all my tracks to no avail. Was actually on a phot...
Was out at the back of the airport this afternoon o the south side taking photographs(laden with kit) and my bins on their lanyard. The snow flurries were heavy and frequent. Got back to car and the bins had dropped off the lanyard and into the snow. Covered all my tracks to no avail. Was actually on a phot...
I know its not Manchester Birding but Frodsham Marsh is one of the premier birding sites in the North West. Someone mentioned this to me at the weekend and apparently they are going to turn it into a windfarm. Apart from the major loss of loss of north west bird habitat in future as you drive to chester / no...
Regarding the previous thread,there is no doubt Comorants are stripping some fisheries of vast numbers of fish.Pennington Flash has several "year classes" of fish almost completely absent,the ones that are missing are the ones that are most suitable sizewise as food for the comorant...
everyone has probably read the signs on the res but they are going to be doing pretty impressive works and repairs to the mains sliuces, three of them to get them back into working order, repairs to the wall on the dam and repairs to the dam itself, and as already announced draining the res fully.
If you care about the long term future of wildlife in general and bird life in particular, (whether or not you accept that global warming results from human activity), tonight's Horizon programme on Beeb 2 may be of interest.
The subject is Attenborough on human population growth. I suggest it sho...
Perhaps a little late for some, but I am sure our loved ones, from time to time read what we put on here, so a chance to give a gentle remainder, perhaps or just a wish list.
Me I would like a nice copy of Audubon and his Journals 2 vols. pub 1976
or Birds of Siberia-Seebohm.
Happy Yuletide
i am working in bulgaria next week for a few days and may have a day free if all goes well. has anyone any personal experience of good birding places to visit there? am staying/working in sofia.
cheers in advance
paul.
Hallo all,
We have been discussing the number of Wood Pigeons on the Moss on the vismig group. I can't remember as a kid the large flocks that are found today. Does anyone have any data on numbers, and when the Moss became so popular for the species.
Thanks.
Eddie
A friend of mine (non-birder - oooh, stringy! ) saw what he is adamant was a Red Kite hanging about over the M60 just past the bridge over the ship canal before the M62 junction on the west side of the motorway. I've seen Buzzards whilst driving over the bridge before, but he swears it was fork tailed and no...
I was quite surprised to get very good views of a red kit being mobbed this afternoon over the M6 near Euxton [just south of junction 28]. At a few hundred metres away I picked up the angle of the wings and for a second thought "I wonder if that's a really late osprey heading south..." , then as it...
One day late getting the post on folks, so sorry but the rest of the family was hogging the laptop going on Facebook Sunday 6th December 2009 @ 7:38am Several Ravens showing well all along Scout Road up to where it changes to Walkers Fold Road. X1 kestrel and Sparrowhawk seen over the Bryan Heyes lodge (C...
Ian I'm sorry this is not just birds (it's mostly not birds in fact)
I have also posted this on Manchester Wildlife website but I am trying to ask as many folk as possible who may be knowledgable in these matters.
We are going to lose our school wild life plots because due to a major school building proj...
I was watching the Great Northern Diver at Hollingworth Lake today for more than an hour and it spent at least as much time under the water as swimming about on the surface. Not once did I see it reappear with food in its bill. Does this mean that it was unsuccessful on its fishing dives, it didn't go fishin...
I took this to the printer's today, so I expect it should be ready in about 5 weeks or so. There will be more pages and more colour plates than last year (even) but the cost will be the same (£6, + 76p postage if getting it from me by post). Otherwise it will be available from the usual outlets, assuming I can g...
