Hi All,
Got back late last night from a few days on board the Pride of Bilbao with friends, sailing from Portsmouth to Bilbao and back. Managed to get out on deck quite a lot and had some great sightings of Birds, Whales and Dolphins.
Pomarine Skua, Manx Shearwater, Cory's Shearwater, Little Shear...
Thousands of Dunlin and Knot. Black Tailed Godwit. Curlew. Common Sand. Avocet.
Plus the usual stuff.
And a nice Hobby out on the salt marsh first time i've seen one here.
Crackin weather too For a change!
Dean.
Bill Myerscough found a Sanderling, 2 Black-tailed Godwit and 7 Dunlin at the Kingsway Business park development in Rochdale, off Issac Newton Way - from Gordon Riggs Garden Centre follow Issac Newton Way to the 2nd Roundabout and you can view the pools on the left hand side from there - Bills interne...
Hallo All,
It was good to be back home and roaming around Chat Moss watching Common Buzzard, visiting Woolstone Eye to see the Black-necked Grebes and seeing a Kingfisher at Pennington Flash. But I had to return to Norway to cover a guiding job I had said yes to. This time it was Jæren just south of Stava...
I found an interesting area behind the Central Retail Park on Gt Ancoats St yesterday. Igot onto the towpath of the Rochdale Canal where Gt Ancoats St crosses it and walked about 100m NE past one bridge. Just before the next bridge, some hoardings have been torn down adjoining the towpath and you can en...
What has happened to all the White and Yellow Wagtails that i used to see around the area, I have not sighted these birds for a while now.
Can the public still visit Seaforth or do you need to be a member now. When i used to visit you could drive all the way to the mersey but then you had to park and walk from the...
I having been seeing more(or some) Sparrows recently, after not seeing any for a good while. Some in my garden, some on the street and lanes. Anyone else noticed this?
Geoff
Not sure if this counts as "Out of County Birding", but I was sat this p.m. at my desk in Farnworth watching the RSPB live web cam from Loch Garton of an Osprey nest when a Cuckoo started Cuckooing in the background. If people have not visited this site then give it a try.
Cheers Ian
never scared of an adventurous hike, but with the recent monsoon conditions ive been trying to think of sites that offer decent birding from the comfort of a parked car. irlam moss and pennington flash spring to mind in the county, and cat and fiddle and burton marsh further afield. has anyone any more...
Hallo all,
I have been checking out Irlam Moss for the first time. New area for me so I am not sure where I have been as there seems to be a maze of roads and paths. The most interesting species was on the 9.7 with a singing Grasshopper Warbler.
A great story this that someone sent me... not in the Greater Manchester area admittedly - but I thought I'd share.
Nesting gull halts £260m tunnel
The demolition has been delayed
Work on a £260m road tunnel has been halted by a nesting seagull.
The herring gull has set up home in the chimney...
Took a morning trip to Pennington Flash today. Nice change from my usual patch in Norway. Best bird for me was a stunning Kingfisher. A very rare species in Western Norway.
New trip planned for tomorrow as the wife has never seen a Kingfisher.
Eddie Chapman
Need an appropriate card for someone on that special occasion?
Arts Angels produce some cracking cards (birdy and arty) in their printmakers range - see their website:
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There are quite a few well-known Robert Gillmor pictures and a cou...
Intended to do a TTV today, but it started to rain as I drove out there, so ended up doing 20 mins of Roving Records before it got too wet.
What was a scruffy pool last year has now developed into a proper pond with reeds etc.
This has attracted
8 Teal
2 Oystercatcher
Moorhen
Coot
several pairs of L...
My first visit here for a week and was nice to see a Greenshank sat on the spit below the house at 19:50. Still present when I left - have not got mobile at the moment so cant get info out too quickly.
9 Goosander
2 Oystercatchers
Dave
I stopped off at Lake Bassenthwaite on Monday and got some views of the female on the nest with possibly two chicks. The male had been seen earlier in the morning at the far end of the lake. Plenty of Buzzards about too.
Back in 1998 while carrying out fieldwork in the Cross Fell area, I saw something that most people refuse to believe.
I was hiking out of Dufton and coming up the back of Dufton Pike when I saw 12 Peregrines, mostly juveniles, in one group flying around each other. I watched them for about 5 minutes bef...
We walked along the Tame Valley Way yesterday from Stalybridge to Stockport and saw very few moorhens, mallards or coots. A man who walks his dog every day says the reason is that mink have been eating the young, and the numbers of birds has dropped dramatically. IS that right, and if so, is anyone tryin...
New garden tick this lunchtime when a juvenile Sparrowhawk tried unsuccessfully to catch one of the birds on our feeders. Fortunately for me it paused to regain its composure on the fence allowing a better view. In fact, if it hadn't landed I wouldn't have seen it as I was decorating the front bedroom w...
Spent a couple of hours trawling through the BH Gulls today looking for a Med Gull.
No luck The old "needle" and "haystack". Did witness a Herring Gull take a BH chick which it took a while to kill.
Also a Spotted Flycatcher in the trees by the sailing club entrance and a family o...
Two dippers on River Douglas this am, just south of bridge at bottom of Brock Mill Lane, off Wigan Lane. Later, in Lower Plantations, a kingfisher and a male grey wagtail on river 300 yards north of bridge on main track, where a narrow path goes off left. Never seen a kingfisher on the Douglas here for yea...
One singing only about 5 miles from the GM border:
19/06 12:52 LANCASHIRE : Icterine Warbler, Jackhouse Reservoir [A]
Park in B6236 Haslingden Road layby and walk north along Cobbs Lane for 1/3 mile SD742260 (12:05) Can be elusive but preset 2 weeks - first thought to be a Marsh Warbler.
The Goosander nest in a Tawny Owl chimney which we have been monitoring now for 4 weeks (and the owner of the house for some weeks longer) was empty today. There was one dead duckling that obviously couldn't get out of the tall box, but the remains of an estimated 10 eggs. It was some distance from any stre...
Treecreeper
Little Grebe
3 Great crested Grebe
8 Redwing
c60 Rook
6 Goldfinch
4 Wren
2 Mistle Thrush
61 Mallard ( including some nice funny coloured ones )
12 Tufted Duck
52 Canada Goose
Emb...