arrived this morning, although the thought of god only knows what could be stored on the chip, where i can access it or not and why on earth it needs an antenna is a little disturbing, i was pleasantly surprised to find that the stamp pages have pretty bird engravings on.
c. 60 swallows, c. 30 sand martins & 6 house martins feeding above Roman Lakes, Marple 6pm on 17th. Dancing GC Grebes completed great picture.
On 15th at 6pm, there were 4 swallows, a common sand & a ringed plover at the pool across the River Tame from Dunkirk Farm - off Dukinfield Rd between H...
First stop ImF
1 BARNACLE AMONGST THE CANADAS
1 LITTLE STINT WITH SEVERAL DUNLIN
2 SPOTTED REDSHANKS
4 SNIPE
1 WATER RAIL
1 KESTREL
BLACKTAILED GODWITS
ALL THE USUAL DUCKS
PARKGATE HELD 2-3 HUNDRED TWITCHERS HOPING FOR A HIGH TIDE BUT THEY LOOKED VERY DISAPPOINTED
I PASSED THROUGH AND WE...
7th February.
On the Boating Lake - 2 Mute Swan, 3 Cormorants, 4 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Tufted Duck + double figures of both Coot and Moorhen.
On a small overgrown pond in an adjacent area of woodland - a pair of Teal.
In surrounding woodlands - flocks of 8 and c30 Siskin, 4 Goldcrest (2 of which were...
Now heres a good thing for the dark nights and rainy days for those of you who have not checked the updates section yet then do so now.
The systematic list and the details on the Artic Skua is mouthwatering to the record twitchers among us, well done on starting it Mr McKerchar looking forward to more of...
pr grey wagtails at the oak hotel off orchard st this morn
and 1 singing on roof at bleachworks this morn
also 2 swallows through and not for stopping it favoured
I posted this a.m. from Elton mentioning that a Swans nest had lost all its eggs with no sign of predation i.e. no broken eggshells visible. Our conclusion( P.Johnson and myself) was that this could have been the work of an egg collector. Simon(Warfy) then posted saying that he felt that the whereabou...
According to the local press ( The Messenger).
1 x Scarlet Macaw frequenting gardens and Millenium Nature reserve.
Picture not too clear although personally the bird pictured is either a Lorikeet or Rosella.
Not looked in detail apparently pictures are on Urmston.net, can't find them thoug...
This is more aimed at Ian,
can't seem to P.M off my phone...
Is there a way or do I have to us my PC.
My fault for having aposh phone I suppose....
Steve..
I realise there are a lot of county birders out there who participate in the BTO Birdtrack which is of course extremely useful but could I ask that those who do participate attempt to enter a quantity for the species they record where ever possible please. If there isn't a quantity this effectively mak...
Whilst I was doing my atlas TTV this morning and walking through Viridor Wood (N) which is just S of Three Sisters, I had a female/imm Marsh Harrier circling around for about 10 mins before drifting off W. I suspect it had probably come from the Wigan Flashes.
Sorry for the mass mailing, but it appears that my private messaging is not working at the moment!
However, if Bill Myerscough reads this could you e-mail me your e-mail address to kane.brides''@''wwt.org.uk
Thanks
Kane
Just been asked by a colleague to ID a bird he saw yesterday on the river spodden which turns out to be a Ruddy Shelduck. Dubious origins no doubt but a nice bird anyway.
Grid Ref: SD 8830 1788 R.Spodden, Whitworth
In case anyone else hasn't seen in the National papers- there's possible plans to flood parts of Norfolk for coastal defences. It's main feature on the regional news slot with village meetings tonight. Sounds like many years off yet though it obviously has big impact on people living there now. Foun...
6 Buzzards sat in 1 tree, next to Carrington Junction, near to where the base was for the contractors doing the motorway work. Also 2 Sparrowhawks chasing pigeons towards Sale Water Park..
M56 Manchester Airport direction from M60 3 Buzzards around Wythenshawe Park area.....
Steve
Sightings in the garden reported by my folks recently of 1 probable Mealy Redpoll, 1 Tree Sparrow and 2 Bramblings. If looking locally try the alder copse at the east end of Shay Lane for the redpolls.
Tree Sparrow was the biggest suprise to hear about for me as i've never had on...
My son has started an slight intrest in birding and has expressed an intrest in having a pair of bins. Can anybody surgest a make and model with a price around £100. I dont want to spend to much at first as he may loose intrest.
Just received my comp. copy of this today. (3rd edition) I wrote the bit on Greater Manchester this time, so if there are any mistakes blame me! (It's 18 months since I did it, though) Space was limited but hope I got all the major sites in. Helm, £16.99 ISBN 978-0-7136-6421-8
I've been a read-only user of this forum for some while and thought I'd wait until I had something decent to post before taking the plunge.
Yesterday, 5th April, at Poynton Pool I had an Osprey flying north and directly overhead (see avatar which was taken at the time by a co-birder). An excellent rew...
What's happening to Rooks in Rochdale? I passed 2 rookeries today - Kiln Lane at Milnrow (1 nest) - admittedly I whizzed past in the car so could have missed some - there were 6 here in 2006, and Nutters at Wolstenholme Hall Norden - only 9 here, though possibly 3 more singletons in other parts of the groun...
Yesterday over 1200 LBBG's flew north over Skitters Wood, Ashton-in-Makerfield, in the early afternoon.
There are movements on a daily basis over here, directly north-south. Moore Landfill is directly south of Skitters.
Yesterday over 99% of the gulls were adult. Though I probably missed s...
