A pretty quiet day on the birding scence Sunday 25th January. (The large number of walkers and general public can't of helped)
Two Dippers seen at the feeder stream at the top end of the resevoir. A couple of Stonechats. Several Mallards M & F. Blue, Coal and Great Tits a plenty on the east banks as a...
I would like to thank everyone in the county who has contributed records to this forum in 2008, on behalf of the Assistant County Recorders (Ian McKerchar and Steve Atkins) and myself, and especially to those who have used the county recording form (follow directions on the "sticky" on th...
Yesterday spoke with Dag at Birdnet re: pager services. He offered me the new Skype service. He has given me the usage of this service to see what its like. I believe he said it worked out at 11.75 a month, I had to purchase the phone ex Argos 38.99. Apparently its exactly the same service as the pager exce...
National Nest Box Week - 14th - 21st February
"National Nest Box Week is great for birds. Starting on St Valentine's Day, it's the time we remind ourselves to provide homes for dozens of species, from Blue Tits to Barn Owls.
If you've never built a nest box before, why not give it a g...
I know this is meant to be for general birding discussion, but on my travels about the County I come across various mammals, from Dunham Massey's Fallow Deer to the odd stoat and weasel flying across a path, water shrews near the irwell and local foxes etc etc.
What prompted me to put this posting on wa...
Hallo all,
I will be in England from next week and hope to spend some time birding on the Moss. I see from certain letters that some of the fields have been given reference numbers like f8 and so forth. Are these numbers to be found on any map? Otherwise not much to report from Norway, for those interested...
Last night on Heaton Park Res. Simon Johnson and myself found an Aythea which looked good for a female Lesser Scaup,the only thing we didn't see well enough was the upper wing pattern.
The bird is not there today.As it was associating with Tufted Duck it is worth giving a good coat of looking at to any Tu...
I am selling the following books, all from the "Where To Watch Birds" series, plus a few others. All are in tip-top condition ; Where To Watch Birds In Britain (1st ed) WTWBI Yorkshire. (2nd ed) WTWBI East Midlands. (2nd ed) WTWBI West Midlands. (3rd ed) WTWBI Somerset, Gloucs & Wilts....
Visited Wepre Park, Connahs Quay today - 13 Waxwings (5 male, 8 female I think, hard to count) in a Rowan bush whenever the 6 or 7 "big lenses" would allow them to settle - motor drives must be quite alarming for these birds when they are only about 4m away!!! There was one particularly obnoxio...
I've just noticed the latest Clements updates and loads of species now seem to be lumped. From a Greater Manchester perspective the most significant lumping seems to be Eurasian Teal/Green-winged Teal. But it usually takes some time for the BOU to accept such changes so we'll probably be able to han...
Hi all,
Does anyone know if this place is worth a visit? I picked up a leaflet at the Risley Moss VC and it looks as though it might be worth a visit - shows two wildfowl lakes and woods.
Regards
Geoff
Adult male Goosander on the River Douglas this morning near Martland Mill Bridge but flew. Probably the same bird was later with what looked like three immature males on Walmsley's Flash but again they quickly flew off. Seven Tufties, two Mute Swans, two Grey Herons, Mallard, Coot and Moorhen also t...
I see Salford Council on their website have plans for a windfarm on Irlam/Chat Moss and whilst it may have little effect on birds and birding and understanding their positive, renewable energy provision, I can't help my personal feelings of repultion at their ugly blot on what is a beautiful area. I'...
Greenbooth - BH Gulls x 45 Mallard x 4. Green Woodpecker calling. Blackbird x 6. Jay x 2
Middle Naden - slowly filling following work on dam. Mallards c 30.
Higher Naden - being filled for first time since savage thunderstorm 4.5 years ago that swept out it's upper bridges.
Top of valley swathed...
2 Dipper
1 Grey Wagtail
2 Great Spotted Woodpecker
1 Heron
1 Mallard
1 Nuthatch
1 Treecreeper
plenty of fungi though, including some rare stuff, all on wildlife forum
Dave
A record has been submitted to the Bird Atlas of a Marsh Harrier at Uppermill on 13th April 2008. Although the species is not a county rarity (only "scarce") it is definitely rare in this neck of the woods, so I queried the record. The chap who submitted the record says he saw the bird with seve...
Three short eared owls this afternoon on Darwen moor about one mile south of Darwen tower. Great views of birds both flying slowly just above the snow covered heather, and diving down into it from time to time and also perching on posts. Plenty of grouse about.
The informetion centre/ cafe along th...
South Manchester parrot explosion continues with 3 (I think adult male) Crimson Rosella's in Whalley Range.
Caught up with them on the way home from work tonight, regretably without my camera - they are truly stunning.
http://www.avianweb.com/crimsonrosella.html
3pm dull, rain threatening
Quick visit on my way home.
20 canadas
12 mallard
41 tufties
9 goldeneye 5m 4f all in absolutely prime condition
8 l.t.tits
1 chaffinch
2 magpies
Mike
Many thanks to Ian & Adrian for the excellent article. It brought back some great memories as I was there when Adrian took a lot of the photos. It also goes a long way to answering some of the questions we were asking each other by e-mail (in those bygone pre-forum days) about first summer plumage.
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late reports
2 carrion crows sighted with paler wingbars/patches on willesden avenue,longsight.....on sunday 11 january about 2.30pm
a large flock of mixed gulls, herring, lbb, common, b h well over 500 sighted at the heywood turn off m66 at about 12.15 saturday 17 jan
another large floc...
A pleasant walk, was twitching some fungi and found some birds along the way
2 Nuthatch
2 treecreeper
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
4 Goldfinch
2 Bullfinch
6 Great Tit
2 Chaffinch.
Dave
