The last of the Swifts have left the area of Houghton Lane, Swinton. Every year fewer and fewer birds return. We used to have 3 pairs nesting in the eaves of our house, now it's down to 2 and the groups of birds that used number 10 to 15 flying around screeching has now been reduced to about 5 or 6. The Rspb are...
Hobby(Adult) again hunting on fields 98/99 next to Barton Airport flew off towards Bontany Bay woods this afternoon at 1630, they must be breeding local has anybody pin-pointed a possible location?
- Nice to have 2 Manchester birders and their wives up here yesterday as our guests, (John Rayner and John Tromans, et alia).
We nipped out for a couple of hours in the afternoon on impulse, primarily to visit RSPB Saltholme, (about 33 miles from where I live in Wolsingham).
Several hundred pairs of...
hello everyone, its a bit out of our area but for any womens open golfing fans at royal lytham, keep a look out for woodlarks this weekend, i spotted 2 pairs during 5 hrs of the golf, regards mike haylett
Pleased to get a site tick this evening, first time ever at this location a eclipse Shoveler. Not bad if you consider the reservoir is some 900ft in altitude.
species, 1 Shoveler, female Common Scoter.
Cheers Alan
Yesterday, Friday 1100' am 'ish supposidly insect survey but family of 5 kestrals
playing about in the breeze,a pair of green woodies showing remarkably well and a little owl being flightly
Hi all,holidaying in orlando with the family at the end of july , hoping to do some birdwatching in between the usual tourist stuff and would welcome any advice on birds to see, best places to go etc thanks in advance dave.
Cwm Nant y Eira - Montgomeryshire
Having spent over 200 hours of surveying in the wilder regions of Montgomeryshire from late April till today I have observed many birds, mammals, amphibians, insects, reptiles and flowers from Palmate Nexts and Pyramidal Orchids to Goshawk and Dormice.
Before...
Off on holiday soon.
Have the usual "Where to watch" books etc,so familiar with Cabo de Gata and Roquetas areas, but wondered if anyone had been recently to this part of Spain and therefore any first hand info?
Staying inland near Bedar.
Rob
I'm currently in Iceland for a month and have just returned from an 11 day expedition to Flatey Island in NE Iceland. Most of my time was spent bird ringing and surveying but did manage one or two birding days. Flatey is an amazing little island and has LOTS of birds!! Birds seen - Fulmar, Kittiwake, Puff...
I have just googled this bird and gone thro' 13 pages without a reference to it. Lots of other blue bits, tails and breasts etc. What am I missing?
Mike
Now is the time that large numbers of Lesser Black-backs are moving through our area on passage from breeding areas in N Lancs.
A good number of these are wearing coloured Darvic rings with numbers, letters or a combination of both, which are easily readable with scopes. I picked 2 up in about 150 bird...
Was in the area,so, thought I`d have a good look around in wet conditions,2 hours later I had seen:- 4 Little Grebe,1 Cormorant,2 Grey Heron, 4 Teal, 20 Mallard, 2 Shoveller, 30 Tufted Duck(incl ducklings),6 Pheasant, 20 Moorhen,6 Coot, 4 Lapwing, 1 Ruff(flushed off sludge lagoon and flew off north...
If anybody's planning a trip to Leighton Moss in the next few days, remember to take your wellies. Public causeway, path to Lower hide and Eric Morecambe hides well above boots level. Otters showing at Public, Lower and Grizdale for the first time in 15 years+
blue walk around the visitor centre
first visit to this place and will defo go again.Lots of coal tit about, out numbering all the other tits. also the most goldcrest i have ever seen .chaffinch gold and greenfinch all seen and singing
raptors of note
2 buzzard,2 sparrowhawk,1 kestrel
1 woodpec...
Hi All,
As some of you know, I lived near Elton 1969-1973 and did some of my early birding there. That's before Warfy was born!!
As I worked in Warrington and my priority was raising my two very young boys, I was never able to do more than a quick scurry round, (mainly at weekends sandwiched between my fa...
On the subject of escaped birds (parrot sp. on Ashton-in-Makerfield thread), how far would you go to see a bird which you knew to be an escape? If your immediate reaction is that you wouldn't - if someone told you there was a Budgie outside your window then you would have a look. If it was in next door's gar...
This round-up is from the latest edition of `Birdwatch` magazine (Feb `09) ; Hooded Merganser, Great Blue Heron, and Wilson`s Snipe have been accepted onto Category A. Naumann`s and Dusky Thrush have been split as full species, as has Black-throated and Red-throated Thrushes. A further split is G...
Dave Steel has kindly copied a tape for me, made by Norman Rowbottom, who now lives on Anglesey, of Nightjars on Astley Moss (now the peat extraction site) in 1980, also with young, and Long-eared Owls wing-clapping and calling. Really evocative. If anyone out there has an up-to-date email for Norma...
Just to let you know - this Terek Sandpiper has been seen about 4pm ish yesterday and was refound early this morning at Heswall (same place) in amongst lots of redshank.
High tide is due 17.12 (7.8m) and it si hoped amongst us lot that it will be found again.
A public car park can be found near to Sheldr...
Dropped into Bempton Cliffs for an hour on Tuesday. Wow what a place for sea birds.
Found a Puffin myself !!! had seen 3 at flamborough half an hour before, but this was all the better because i found it myself. Also had
1000`s of kittiwake
1000`s of Guillemot
200 gannets
Razorbill
shags...
4 Song Thrushes 5 Wrens 2 Dunnocks 2 Chaffinch 4 Mute Swans 2 and 2 Mallards 6 Coot 20+ Canada Geese 5 Goosander 3m 2f 10+ Moorhen Mallards Robins 2 Carrion Crow 2 Long Tailed Tit 4 Goldcrests 2 and 2 in different areas. Blue and Great Tits 1 Coal Tit singing 1 Dipper 1 Bullfinch m 1 Kingfisher on moat at the en...
....but there'll be lots of Jam, Clash, Buzzcocks, Pulp, U2 and much, much, more at the Sylvan in Timperley on Saturday 21st Feb - free admission, no ticket needed so if you are hanging around in Timperley that night pop in to the pub and see me and some mates enjoying our other Hobby (geddit?!) as XL5 roc...
