Good sightings at both venues today of
Chiffchaffs.
Robins.
Willow Warblers.
Ravens.
m. Redstarts.
2 GSWs.
m and f Chaffinch ++
Carrion Crows++
Curlews in abundance.
Tawny Owl heard in the woods
On the lake
Greylag Goose,
1 pair Grebe,
little Grebe,
Coot.
Lots of Oyster catch...
I have not seen any Dotterel on Whittle Pike for the past 3 years since the start of the wind farm. I have only been up a couple of times each Spring but wondered if any one had seen them. This used to be a historic trip site with doiuble figure birds only a decade ago.
This is the area of rough land bounded by the Ship Canal, the A57 and Barton Bridge on the M60. The Salteye brook runs through it and then into the canal at Barton Locks. Park in the lorry park at the Barton Moss Rd turnoff, cross the dual carriageway and go through gap in hedge onto road to locks.
See it now...
Time for a rant.......
its come to light that its only myself and one other person (Declan Savage) entering records from Elton for the current Atlas.
Im really shocked at this with the amount of people who watch there and the publicity the Atlas has had. It doesnt take long to add your sightings as r...
Dipper flying across Piethorne on Tuesday evening and 3 Wheatears on Wednesday evening, the wheatears were really fun to watch!! Sorry posted in the wrong place it should be in the Piethorne Valley thread, can anyone move it? -- Edited by Carol Albison on Thursday 30th of April 2009 08:02:11 PM
It's April and migrants are coming, hopefully en masse.
Don't laugh, but in 40 years of patient waiting I still have yet to see in Britain a bird which just about all of you who wanted to see one saw at Audenshaw; - an Alpine Swift!
They regularly turn up in April of course, but I keep waiting (and waiting...
Two, possibly three, Spotted Flycatcher just near Bolton golf course (on the path to Lostock Hall, just past the waterworks if heading from the golf course towards the hall).
This was 19th April, but I'd bet good money they'll still be there if anyone goes to look.
Apologies for the delay in posti...
Seen in a garden just near the Lostock Junction pub on Saturday evening. Very clear views from pretty close distance for about 10 minutes.
Wasn't sure if it's worth posting, but figured may as well.
Seen blackcap, chiff-chaff and willow warbler in same area.
Courtesy of Kevin McCabe, I have just received an extraordinary set of photos showing 2 Bitterns roosting in flowering cherry trees at a doctors' surgery in Church Rd Urmston, on 18th March. There were actually 3 in total, but one flew off when one of the ladies working there went in the garden to take t...
Has anyone got any recomemdations for field guides for the Maldives?
I presume through searching amazon etc that an Indian Subcontinent guide is my best bet!
But any of you with any info would be great!
Cheers in advance!
Walking around the lake and up the old railway line this am heard four chifchaf singing . a pair of reed bunting were very active ,and two great crested grebes were in the process of the mating display.
May I be the first to congratulate Paul Wilson on the superb picture of the Elton Res Bittern published on page 97 of Mays magazine.
Well done Paul, great snap shame i could not catch up with it in real life....
Steve
Late evening.
5 Wheatears on the newly ploughed field 9 behind Black Wood.
3 of which have stayed for over a week.
They seem so reluctant to move on.
Cheers Ian.
I,ll try to be brief and concise,I was watching the Ruff,s on Horrocks flash at 19.30 when I heard a shot which seemed a little close for comfort , I went onto the towpath and saw three men with shotguns fire three or four shots,from about 20 yards into a flock of feeding canada geese in the field between th...
Why, I hear you scream, would you even contemplate using the hate word to describe our delightful little songsters?
Because - I spent the best part of 40 Mins staring into a hawthorn bush hoping (beyond hope) that I'd just found a 'proper' county rarity (you'll get my meaning in a second).
Walking...
Plea for help........
I have never seen Nightjar in the North-West, and I would like to rectify the matter !
Does anyone know of any traditional or recent sites in Lancashire or Cheshire (I`ve got GM hopefully staked out) ?
Because of the sensitive nature of this subject, PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO T...
I have been walking with someone for health reasons (theirs not mine) from Astley Bridge along the canal to Vicar's Hall Bridge and having only just been told of this website was intrigued to read of what to me are rarities such as grasshopper warbler being seen or at least heard in this area. I wonder if...
I have the day off on weds and its Brandons last day off school so he wants to go looking for the cuckoos in Rindle woods. Having never been before we would love some advice on where to park and where to see this elusive bird (elusive for us anyhow, almost as elusive as waxwings)
any help apperciated.
I cycled the stretch from Springfield Farm to Jackson's brickworks this evening on the way home from work.
This is a great stretch for warblers once spring is fully under way. There was not too much song tonight: just a couple of Chiffchaffs and Willow Warblers. However, I was pleased to find my firs...
Enjoying a non birding day out at Chester Zoo today saw [from a distance] a robin sized bird fly out from a tree take a flying insect of some sort from above water with a kind of hover motion then return to a tree... I immediately thought that could be some sort of flycatcher but the only rubbish photo I got s...
Singing male pied flycatcher back at usual spot for third year out of four (I might just have been unlucky last year). Anyone wanting further directions, please ask. Otherwise just the other 'usual' three warblers around, dipper flying down river, and a good number of sand martins (12+) from the sit...
The one with the kids on the beach. Anyone know where it was filmed. If there's Penguins there I wanna twitch em.
Seriously - why oh why oh why have they put two penguins in an advert based on a UK beach (awaits someone coming on and telling me about the well known chinstrap penguin colony on some remote p...
A Walk to White Holm this morning produced a nice little clutch of waders the best being 4 Whimbrel on Black stone edge reservoir, this is my only record on Black stone in over twenty years watching this location.
Black stone, 4 Whimbrel, 1 Common Sand, 2 Red Shank, 1 Green Plover.
White Holm, 2 Little...
