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...
A Lesser Spotted Woodpecker was reported in Bolton today on Birdguides.
Has anybody any information on this birds location.
Suspect it maybe Jumbles as we had heard that one has been seen in this area.
By the way its mainly in Lancs.
The cost of bins seems to have just gone astronomical, or is it me? I was thinking of getting some new bins, but at £1250 for the new Leicas I think not . Even the Zeiss and Nikons have rocketed.
Two months ago a price of Swarovski 8x30 SLC's were £539 now they're £649
I take it the credit crunch isnt affe...
Photo in MEN tonight of a canada with a crossbow bolt thro' its neck. It was seen and reported by a boater on the Bridgewater canal near Kellogg's in Trafford park. What I would like to do to these morons.
Mike
Today, I saw the Irwell in Manchester looking like a foam bath for as far as the eye can see. I saw the foam coming in from the River Irk but do not know the precise source. I reported the matter to the Environment Agency who had in fact been alerted to the problem and are at this moment investigating the inci...
Okay boys and girls, hold onto your hats because here it comes!
I think the reported Tree Pipit currently at Pennington Flash isn't one. I think it's a Meadow Pipit.
I was alarmed initially by comments at the time of the birds finding, that it sounded like one although only in partial song (par...
I've never understood why birders shorten wonderful names of birds, post instigated by Ian's request of where does "Bx" mean Black Redstart, which I also don't understand.
One eg is "Gropper" nothing like as aesthetic as Grasshopper Warbler. GIVE BIRDS THEIR PROPER NAMES...
12/4/09
Dragged Jimmy Meadows around on a 7-hour mooch, but unfortunately there wasn`t the warbler bonanza we had hoped for. However we did manage the following :
Singing Whitethroat,
Double figures of White Wagtails,
2 Wheatear,
3 Ringed Plover,
2 Ruff,
Black-tailed Godwit,
Common S...
Just to let you know that tomorrow, the 6th April 2009, the Manchester Birding website is being migrated to a new Windows 2008 hosting platform (no, I've no idea what that is either). It will, apparently, enable the forum to have exiting new features and allow for better performance and reliability....
arrived at 7.15 started birding at the reed bed screen kingfisher there walking towards the big wood hide Garden Warbler and blackcap. near no1 tank loads of chiffchaff and willow warblers, green woodpecker othe edge of the meadow at neumans walking up the the far side of the flash a buzzard flew over...
11/4/09 am
With Jimmy Meadows :
Star of the show was the returning Black Guillemot, which just sailed into view under our noses in the harbour mouth @ 10.10 At times we could plainly hear it calling out for a mate......
Just prior to that we were looking at a Shag on the wooden jetty, which we hadn`t...
11/4/09 pm
With Jimmy Meadows :
2 Spotted Redshank, 2 Greenshank & Common Sandpiper on the Pool,
4 Eider & male Red-breasted Merganser on the Lune,
Large flock of Black-tailed Godwits & Redshanks on the Marsh and creeks.
2 Swallows and Sand Martin over.
23 Twite on White Holme feeding station early afternoon. 3 Peregrines on nearby pylon. 3 Ravens in the area. 1 male Goldeneye on White Holme Res. 300+ fieldfare over North West. 170+ Starlings over North West. Male and Female Stonechat behind the White House Pub.
I do a BBS which is just outside GMC around Haydock Island (J23 on the M6). One of the transects runs along the edge of a decent wood which has a lot of bramble and scrub understorey. I was very surprised to have a Grasshopper Warber singing away in there today - not only very early, but very odd habitat!
Better known as the A to Z of manchester ,the OS reference for those of us who need to how steep the hill is ,and if you can the post code of the best parking spot for the sat nav users, it will save a lot questions if you find a biggy,so if your starting a new thread put the directions in there somewhere please
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Lancashire Wildlife Trust has purchased Ringing Pits from Peel Holdings (f38 on the field map elsewhere on this website). This is excellent news as this area was being cut by hand so had not been destroyed like many other parts of the peat bog. They have also appointed 2 Mosslands Officers (Chris Mill...
Howdy folks - anyone know if this bird's okay?
My wife and I were walking along the canal (Monday 8th April, 2009, approx. 16:30) and saw this poor fellow on the water, he'd got his head and neck stuck in one of those plastic/acrylic 'four pack' beer ring-thingies - and although not appearing injured...
Sue and I are thinking of a trip to Norfolk at the end of September or early October. We usually got in a Travelodge - cos it's cheap - but were wondering if there would be any interest in getting a shared cottage with some other Manchester birders? Cost would work out at about £100 each for accommodation f...
even though i've nothing against dogs or dogwalkers,i had one myself until i was in my mid 20's,but do other birders than me seem to have the same problems as me,in a 3 hour period yesterday i had a rotweiler,a red setter,and some other massive red labrador,on 3 separate ocasions dive up at me ,all 3 leav...
Just seen a advertisement in Wigan Observer about redevelopment into a marina at this site but they are calling it Pagefield Lake my god its had some names this one sounds a bit posh to me its still limey to me
This is the one that the Great White Egret Reappeared at will these developers leave nothing a...
Birdnet report a Marsh Harrier over Wythenshawe behind Sharston Tip over the lake at 1040 this morning. -- Edited by Mark Rigby on Monday 6th of April 2009 08:36:31 PM
