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raptor fest!! 1 Peregrine chasing hillside feral pigeons and Lapwings. 3 Buzzards. As per yesterday drifted off southeastwards towards Shoretop farm 8+ Sand Martins entering nest holes. 1 Kestrel 2 Lapwings Also on the canal at Nob End 1 Sparrowhawk edit: also a Weasel at the locks where the canal s...

Chiffchaffs arrived Friday

Ian. Putting this on via my new phone couldn't find thread sorry... Visitor Centre Highlights Teal m & f Water Park Only highlight was Cormorant with near complete white head and legs. Sinensis ? Broad Ees Dole 2 pairs Shoveler 3 pairs Tufted Duck 1 pairs Gadwall 4 Lapwings 24 Go...

3 Buzzards 4 Sand Martins spring is here also Gs woodpecker drumming nr my house and heron landed on next door shed roof thinking it was a pond!

just seen on a website that s/africa has had 5 days of incessant rain and the swallows are grounde both by the rain and lack of insects to eat hopefully the swallows that come back to england have already set off otherwise their could be a lack of swallows this summer

This year the RSPB and the South Pennines Twite Group will be coordinating one of the most extensive surveys of Twite in the South Pennines. There are seven sites to be surveyed within Greater Manchester and luckily all but one site has been allocated to volunteer surveyors. However, I'm keen to recr...

Crompton Lodges: Black Swan trying to get familiar with a dark immature Mute Swan. 1 Chiffchaff singing Vats waste: 1 Stonechat Darcy Lever gravel pits: 2 Chiffchaffs singing

Anyone thinking of forking out for new top end bins might want to hold on to their cash a little bit longer (unles you want the discontinued Leicas that is). Nikon are due to release the new EDG (edge) bins in summer. They've gone down the line of Swaro's EL design and as far as aesthetics go they look the...

30 Gadwall on pool on North side this afternoon (highest count I've ever had in the Mersey valley area)

Hi all, I'm doing the usual drive over to my Mum's at Lowestoft, Suffolk over Easter & feel the need to go for one or two detours enroute & back again. Any suggestions of top birding sites? We usually travel down A17 to Kings Lynn & then A47 across to Norwich, etc, but pretty flexible. The on...

apart from the obvious nest-building activities of magpies, rooks and crows; almost complete mistle thrush nest at daisy nook, long tailed tit taking feathers into brambles at marbury park, black swan on nest at haydns pool, wood pigeon on nest at neumanns flash and blackbird on eggs on rochdale ca...

Really enjoyed the autumn trip to spurn. Anyone up for another Spurn invasion this spring

I was in North Wales this week-end and despite the weather saw a few nice birds. At Beddmannarch Bay in Angelsey were 4 Slavonian Grebes and 67 pale-bellied Brent Geese along with lots of waders including grey plover, knot, dunlin. At Pensarn were the 7 Snow Buntings along with a Red-throated Diver, a...

With Easter came the snow. Not unusual here in Norway, especially that Easter is so early this year, but even so, I had planned to check out some Woodpecker localities, not an easy job when there is a foot or more of snow. No, it had to be a drastic change of plans and head for the milder climate of an island o...

Hallo all, I have just returned from a trip home and though I did manage to get to Pennington Flash, there was little of interest. I thought that some of you may be interested in up-dates from my local patch here at Voss in western Norway. If however you feel that these don't belong on this forum just let me...

I work until 9.45pm and the last 2 Wednesdays I have seen a barn owl on the A6 near the Georgian House Hotel {Jarvis} - is it normal for them to be in the same place, same time on consecutive weeks? Do they have a set area in which they fly each night?

Can I ask everyone who took part in the national winter wildfowl counts 2007-8 to send their forms back to Adrian Dancy as soon as possible, so that the data can be entered up on the county database in time for the 2007 annual report. Thanks.

Nice Heronry, counted at least 12 birds. Quiet a bit of activity at least 8 nests appeared occupied. Buzzard Kestrel 1 Great Crested Grebe a few Black Headed Gulls. Dean.

male wheatear in the large plough south of moss lane early this morning and also 2 little owls showing well. Very quiet at Hope carr single curlew over north and still good numbers of gadwall (62 minimum) As i arrived home could hear whooper swan distantly afetr a while 20 appearred going north just b...

Im going to Mallorca for 2 weeks in August and am looking for some birding ifo anyone bin there dun it and got the Tee Shirt

Hi All, I am currently in Florida and having just moved into a hotel with wireless internet I thought I would post my list of birds that I have seen up to now. Starling, Osprey, House Sparrow, Pied Billed Grebe, Anhinga, Great Blue Heron, Green Heron, White Ibis, Wood Stork, Egyptian Goose, Turkey...

pair of tawnys calling to each other on estate back of house at 04.45 this morning

ok before you all start ,yes I.ve been dragged kicking an screaming into the year 2000+ and am now the proud owner of a navman system,it,s not perfect and tries to take you through shopping precients etc but i.d guess 98percent ok and very easy to use,so i,m going to compile a list of post codes that will g...

Dave Broome found a Firecrest (presumably one of the 2 seen late last year in the same area) in his parents' garden at Rushdene this evening. The garden backs onto the flash. He thinks it went to roost in a row of Leylandii at the end of Rushdene, which run parallel with the railway embankment and adjoin t...

Word on the street (or rather on BirdForum) is that it is Tom McInney's birthday - so Happy Birthday Tom.

There's a high tide of 9.5m at Marshide, Southport this weekend. 11am sat, 12pm sun. Wind direction good too. Cheers Dean.

this morn only looked at top res 49 l b b gulls 6 herring gulls 52 b h gulls 1 little grebe 1 grey wagtail 1 mute swan juv 2 tufties

Hello fellow birdwatchers. I'm going to Spain in under two weeks and, typically, have left things to the last minute. Does anyone have a copy of the now out-of-print Arlequin Press site guide to Extremadura by John Muddeman that they could sell to me or kindly loan to me? (I promise to return it in perfe...

2 nuthatch, together hopefully a pair, no sign of treecreeper that have been about in the park over winter. dave mcintyre

Had an explore round the fylde coast yesterday....heres the sightings Freckleton Naze - very windy and birds distant Whooper Swan 9 Blackwit flew over Curlew 100+ Wigeon 3000+ Filedfare 100 Tree Sparrow 3 Siskin plus other common stuff Warton Marsh Whooper Swan 67 Pinkfeet 8 Mut...