Just a gentle reminder to the newer members of the forum (and some older members as well) that the Manchester Birding Forum is just one small part of the Manchester Birding WEBSITE.
There is a wealth of information ranging from bird ID issues, birding sites within Greater Manchester, trip reports...
Just returned from Etherow Country Park where at 3.15, unbelievably, a swift started to hawk over the water of Compstall mill lodges. I watched it for the next 15 minutes when it was almost continually in sight at ranges down to about 30 meters. I was waiting for it to drop low enough to be able to pick out...
Been laughing out loud recently reading Bill's and now Geoff's posts containing more and more imaginative use of emoticons. Love it. Waiting to see which of the gentlemen will be first to compose a complete post containing emoticons only!, is there an emoticon for "king of the emoticons?&quo...
driving up past there this morning three pheasants in the road, and one male was completely black or dark green. dont know how unusual this is, so thought i would mention it. didnt get a long look because I was driving.
A great walk over Belmont towards Darwen this afternoon. Plenty of displaying Lapwing and Curlew love watching these birds at this time of year. A few Golden Plover in with the Lapwings. Single soaring Raven giving great close up views.
Meadow Pipits, Skylark and Stonechat and a Kestrel.
The BH G...
1 SPOTTED REDSHANK
100+ COMMON REDSHANK
10+ CURLEW AND OYSTERCATCHERS
1 LITTLE EGRET
200+BLACK TAILED GODWITS
20 SHELLDUCK
15 MUTE SWAN
TEAL,WIDGEON,MALLARD,COOT
GOOD NUMBERS OF STARLINGS AND MORE HOUSE SPARROWS THAN IVE SEEN IN A LONG TIME
2 GREAT CESTED GREBE AND 2 GOLDENEYE
ALL SEE...
I am new to the forum so hello. Used info on this forum to see my first Waxwings at Cheapside. Thanks also to the guy I met there who told me about Dee Estuary. Went last Friday and saw first Hen Harrier. Anyway 4 Song Thushes Numerous Wrens 4 Goldfinches 2 Greenfinches 1m 1f Chaffinches 3 Goosander m on Cri...
I thought the saga of wintering Blackcaps in my suburban Chadderton garden might be of some interest.
Firstly, a female turned up in my back garden on 28th December 2006.
Amazingly, on 3rd January 2007 there were 2 Blackcaps in my back garden! Both a male and a female were pres...
An excellent first days trip to Parkgate today with a walk from the carpark along the side of the golf course and returning circular via wirral way we had sightings of,
fieldfare a plenty
greenfinch
carrion crow
chaffinch
kestrel
blue tit, great tits and long tailed tits
robins
house sparr...
Have been trying to keep it a secret but I just can't hold it in any longer - I love Fairburn Ings! Have spent many, many happy times here over recent years - I am really, really surprised nobody else seems to have mentioned it on the "Out of County" forum before!
It reminds in some small ways o...
A White Stork was seen on the roof of the cricket pavillion on Ford Lane in Didsbury this morning at SJ839900. The bird was not checked for rings and it's origins are currently unknown but checks are underway.
Info thanks to Nick Scarle
Was wondering if anyone knows of any gull roosts around, that you dont require permits for.
I only know via this website Pennington Flash which is a tad far out from Urmston and the other one obviously Audenshawe.
There has to more, but just dont know where I really only have Irlam Locks, might give i...
It would appear that a member of the public has been attacked whilst out jogging this week by 2 husky type dogs smewhere on Rindle road. It has been reported to the police but i don't know where the dogs were from. Could any members visiting the area bear this in mind.
Just a reminder that it is the last Wetland Bird Survey count this weekend. Please send your completed forms to Adrian Dancy (WeBS organiser) as soon as possible after the count, at Flat 5, Kensington Court, Bury New Rd, Salford M7 4WU. If you intend to send the counts in online, it would be really helpf...
Excellent hunting display from the barn owl Thursday evening 05/03, two kestrels and a buzzard also spotted from the same spot, so plenty of raptor activity within the area.
On the lookout for little owls at the moment, has anyone got a good area to suggest??
John.
This afternoon over Rooden Reservoir at the eastern end of the valley a flock of about 20 curlew together with a similar sized flock of lapwing in the same area.
You don't expect to be sitting in the front room of your house in deepest Wigan (well Gidlow) of a Monday morning, finishing your breakfast, and look up to see a Buzzard, pursued by two Ravens, flying towards you. Jean just beat me to the front door but they then doubled back north west and two more Ravens...
We all went here on Friday. The scenery was stunning due to the weather, and so we walked around the 4.5 mile path, plus one of the hides.
Not a lot about. GCGrebes, Goldeneye plus the usual stuff.
We went up onto the Moorland between the Reservoir and the Roaches and saw a hen Harrier.
Will def. go bac...
2nd March. Found this piece of nonsense on todays BBC Football gossip website. "Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand and his fiancee Rebecca Ellison have arranged for a barn owl to swoop down the aisle and deliver their rings in a velvet pouch when they get married in August. (Daily Mirror...
Ian and I are thinking of running a Gt. M/c Birders 3 day trip to Scotland next Feb.(2009) going on a Friday and returning Sunday,sharing cars . Brief ITINERY. Day One. Drive up to SW Scotland birding at various freshwater lochs,etc,also looking for Red Kite(good numbers in the area) and weather perm...
Walk through the Lower Plantations and the Douglas Valley this am produced: At least five drumming Great Spotted Woodpeckers and three calling Nuthatches in the Plants; 52 Redwing in trees alongside the Canal, and a Dipper and a male Mandarin on the Douglas about 200 yards downstream from Brock Mil...
