First Blackcap (male) of the year in my Walkden garden on Thursday, competing with Starlings for some old blue cheese on the bird table and surprisingly, holding its own against six of them.
Friday and again today, it was singing its head off and I presume ready to mate on arrival of first female.
H...
Cracking view of 4 Buzzards over Belmont road, 50 to zero mph in 4 secs
3 birds at first, 2 putting on a fantastic flight display. Almost touching tallons, i thought they where going to start twisting and tumbling. Lots of wings folded stooping and general showing off.
The other bird hovered for a wh...
seen today
1 m sparrowhawk
5 singinging chaffinch
1 goldfinch singing
fieldfare
m thrush
3 song thrush
4 blackbirds
and just out of our boundary by about 30yds
a little owl sunning itself on on a derelict barn in leyland green lane
Today I watched a Mistle Thrush flying for a couple of minutes around a woodland in full song. BWP states they sing "exceptioanlly from ground and not infrequently in flight" . First time I've seen it in 35 years birding, (other than jumping from one perch to a nearby second). Anybody else c...
Seem to have lots of new pictures to drool over, and the out of county pictures are excellent, but regarding the Misellanous photos especially the cattle Egret dippers, what a handsome bunch for that time in the morning as for mtself sporting a green baseball cap, well lost that cap up at light hazzles...
right everyone i need a little bit of help, im looking for a new pair of bins and should have around £400 to spend, ive done a bit of research so far but would welcome any recomendations you lot could make or things you haev used and are a deffo no no.
cheers in advance
Andrew
We, the research team from WWT travelled to 4 of our centres this week to carry out routine ringing, heath checks and screening for Avian Influenza in any waterfowl that got caught in our decoys.
It started off on Monday (5th Feb) leaving WWT Slimbridge en route to WWT Welney. Nothing much around at...
Large pool to west of Moat Lane at lunch today: 2 Scaup (both first winter drakes) 216 Tufted Duck 5 Pochard 24 Coot 2 Cormorant 1 Great Crested Grebe Mike -- Edited by Mike Baron at 13:26, 2008-01-18
There is a petition to stop the shooting of Canada Geese at Reddish Vale Country Park.
A local farmer says the geese are damaging his fields used for horse grazing. We understand that there is a problem with the numbers of Canada Geese in The Vale, but there are more humane ways of dealing with the probl...
Not sure if anyone is interested or not, but I've just put up a "freewebs" website containing one photo of every species I've managed to see (where I've managed to get a pic). It's a sort of "best of" and I make no claims of being a good photographer - but I'll keep on trying!
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After introducing the new 'out-of-county' bird photo gallery on the website it appears that it doesn't appear on one users screen when he hits the 'photo galleries' page. Is anyone else experiencing similar problems? I've spoken to a few users and like me, it's fine and dandy for them
Let me know if...
while working today at the side of winstanley college on winstanley rd i heard a l s woodpecker calling from the tree line at the side of the m6 called 3 or 4 times then was not heard since but winstanley estates wood is just on the other side of the m6 and is private i will be there either tues or wed to finish t...
These web pages are recommended in this months Birdwatch Magazine.
http://geocities.co./Yosemite/4413/sb_quiz.html
and
http://personal.inet.fi/cool/live/birds
the first is a shorebird/wader ID quiz which I thought was quite good, but is mainly just yankee waders. The second i...
Kenworthy Lane Woods, Northendon 27th Jan 07 15 Siskin. A local resident informed me that a Harris Hawk has been coming to roost in this wood recently (I don't know for how long). He gave me a very credible description and it's wearing jesses. I haven't seen one around Chorlton WP for ye...
The missus has booked our annual getaway and we're off to spain on the Costa Brava at Santa Susanna in late spring. This is a family holiday so I'll be restricted to a couple of hours here and there and I wont have a car either. The resort looks quite small and is surrounded by fields and some woodland so it l...
What was the closing date for Jan mystery birds? Just gone to send my entry and the results are there. I assumed it was the end of the month but i must admit i don't remember the date.
I had them both right as well Honest, i did
Cheers Dean.
Went to see the Grebe at Barrow Lower Lodge just south of Clitheroe(off the main road at the Macdonalds!)this a.m. Dead easy to find and its been there all week, the 2nd lifer for me in 2 days
Cheers Ian
I've been told by my optician that I now need glasses for distance work as well as the reading glasses I already have. He's suggested vari focals but I wondered how these work with bins as I don't want to be lifting my specs every few seconds to use the bins.
Any tips from those of you out there who've alre...
Found an article that led me to an American website, nortbirding.com. interesting id piece on this site.
obviously you have to put the www. bit in them northbirding.com/idtraining
as its an american site and it has american birds on but its something to do on these dark nights
And on that subject a...
yesterday the river roch on the bury/rochdale border was up to with a couple of inches of the top of the bank and today in the city centre the irwell was up higher than i've ever seen it and both rivers are so full of silt that they are the colour of mud, my question is this... how does it effect all the fish etc...
Had a saunter this p.m. around the area near Foxdenton Hall & also some of the local farmland and sections of the Rochdale Canal close by.
Plenty of the expected species plus - 3 Siskin, 1 Meadow Pipit, 9+ Mistle Thrush (including a singing bird), 2 Fieldfare, 3 LBB Gull, 1 Common Gull. Biggest su...
