Although there have been a few early records already this year, from now until about the 3rd week of May is usually peak time of year for Dotterels passing through Britain, and with nearby places like Pendle Hill getting good numbers every year surely they're under-recorded in Greater Manchester?
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12.9.07 - Middle and Goyt Hall Farms - mid pm
Yellow Wagtail - 1st winter bird around the Horsefields and newly ploughed field by Goyt Hall Farm (a good bird for here).
Little Owl - 3 birds noted around Goyt Hall Farm area.
Hallo all, It has been a while since I have written anything. I have just come back from a trip to Sweden. It was fantastic to say the least with Cranes, Owls and Woodpeckers. But back to Norway. Even though the cold nights are still forming a new thin layer of ice on the lakes, it soon melts and warm sunny da...
check the main site for details,but us wigganers are on to it already,maps,flipcharts target birds sycronised spotting pratice every thursday,sounds like the warfords but with pies. the wigganers -- Edited by Geoff Hargreaves at 20:58, 2008-01-11
trip with local r s p b group to conder green area
freezing cold east wind blowin kept most things down
birds seen
condor green
sp redshank,
4 scaup
pr red b mergansers
stonechat
4 whimbrel
bl t godwits in breeding plumage
knot ,,
pilling marsh
golden plover
p f goose
a very distant ross go...
Just spent an hour or so on the Logie the Osprey website. Brilliant stuff. Not just the Osprey. Marsh Harrier, Honey Buzzard and much more.
The section on mammals interested me because it ties in with a tv program, on the other night, Natural World, i think it was. A guy (the son of Mr MFI) has a dream of...
2 Willow Warbler
1 Chiffchaff
2 Greenfinch
1 Chaffinch
4 Lbb Gulls
Loads Woodpigeons
22 Magpies
4 Carrion Crows
Song Thrush
Mistle Thrush
2 Weasles
2 cast iron baths, 1 washing machine, 1 couch, several chairs, plenty bits of cycles and a fine collection of car wheels. Strangely no sho...
A mate at work has been telling me for months that he has had lots of Siskin, Brambling and Redpolls visiting his feeders in his garden.
He said that the Redpolls were paler than in his bird book and that some of them were becoming very pink.
I have been meaning to pop in to look at the birds in question a...
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.
