Presume "out of Country birds" are allowed? For anyone adventurous or mad enough to go for the Wallcreeper thats been present near Callais.. Just had the following email from a birding friend of mine who lives down south who went last weekend and saw it...
"Just been for the Wallcr...
Aldi in Tydesley have a shedful of £24.99 scopes(the same ones Lidls were doing last year)They're really good as a spare or to leave in your car,GET ONE whilst stocks last,well recommended at the price.
Pete Berry
22 feb pm.
Pair of Ravens displaying.
Nuthatch 5
Treecreeper 2
Gt Sp Woodpecker 2
Bullfinch(6 around car park)
Plus usual woodland stuff being very active.
Cheers Dean.
I have spoken to Ian Harper at UU about the Twite situation at Light Hazzles, today.
Apparently, despite feeding, the Twite just weren't there this winter. Feeding had to stop because the seed was rotting, which in itself can carry disease. They also weren't at Cant Clough in Lancashire, which inte...
This article is going to be in the Salford Star summer edition, also sending it to birding magazines, etc:
SHOULD BBC SPRINGWATCH HAVE BEEN BROADCAST FROM HERE ?
If you'd have taken a walk around the North Wharf area of Salford Quays earlier this year, you would have encountered a scene that c...
Sunday 9am Male blackcap in garden on Beaumont Road Chorlton. The bird spent 5 mins in ivy before moving along gardens towards Beech Road. Later watching Chorlton Griffins v Timperley Villa (8 - 1 to Chorlton) 2 sky larks over - Hough end Fields
Popped in on the way back from pennington, large finch flock siskin redpoll goldfinch, 2 larger redpoll seen briefly, but then kept away from view,40+ teal on water.
bullfinch, grey wagtail heron etc..
did my other ttv today could have done with a tractor that boggy in places 29 species in totalall the usual stuff best bird was a green woodpecker in birley wood on the survey out of the survey area up to a thousand wood pigeon came out of their roosting site wonderful to see
Hi
I am very interested in becoming a bird ringer. Have been for years but always thinking of some excuse not pursue it more.
Are there any opportunities locally(ish) to train to become a ringer, I live in Little Lever, Bolton.
Any info greatly appreciated.
ATB Ste
Hi, Please can you take some time out to read the STICKY WELCOME NOTES at the top of the county bird sightings section and all the other links.
Mr McKerchar has gone to a great deal of trouble to have a safe web-site, but in his own words a numbers of unscruplous individuals do and can visit this site. Egg c...
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...
