Dear all, after recent events concerning county lists getting me down more than a little I feel I should attempt to explain exactly where my 'guidelines' for the county lists are coming from. Deciding what you can or can't count on your list is not, nor should it be, my decision. It's a personal thing, s...
Have been having some problems over the last few days, not been able to access the forum, on my computer, has anyone else had this problem
can access all the rest of the website and have no problems with the rest of the internet, just the forum, some may say its a good thing you cannot get on paul but its so f...
On strike from work today so I thought i'd have a walk and see how many species I could find. I walked from the Three Sisters, along Landgate Lane, past Park House Farm and then all round the Flashes... No real rarities, but a "patch tick" with 2 RAVENS at the Three Sisters and a total of...
While doing some winter atlas work yesterday I found a Green Sandpiper in a flooded field in Simister. Nothing much else about, but that was a nice record.
i have only been birding since 2000 and those who have been going longer might know different but has this been one off the best years in the county to date. with desert wheatear, cattle egret, chettis warbler, gannet, little auk, yellow browed warbler, red necked and grey phalaropes, leaches petrel...
was in rusholme yesterday and today - around m14 - platt lane/head place
yesterday hundreds of b h gulls, in platt field park about 3pm
as for today turned out to be a surprising day - was in the same area just after 3.15 and i heard a screeching/whistling call and i looked up and i saw 4 birds flying...
Myself and my son decided not to go to Pennington today what with colds and the weather!
We have spent the morning watching the normal finches and tits etc at our feeders and generally the garden has been busy.
Unusually today we have been visited by 3 Lesser Redpoll and a Jay.
We should watch our f...
raptor , mot likely a buzzard perched in a small decidious tree on the m66 1 mile north of bury southbound - the raptor appeared to have a paler neck and was brown coloured tuesday 1.30pm -- Edited by sarfraz at 00:56, 2007-12-05
Dear all (apologies for cross-posting)
This is just a quick note to inform birders about the (fairly) new bird listing website, BUBO Listing (www.bubo.org/listing). This site has been set up to enable the storage, sharing and comparison of bird lists of a wide range of types (including county li...
I have for sale the following magazines ;
Birding North West - Vol 1 (12 issues, 2004)
Birding North West - Vol 2 (12 issues, 2005)
Birding North West - Vol 3 (up to issue 9, 2006)
British Birds - Vol 98 (Jan 2005 to Sep 2005)
British Birds - Vol 100 (Jan 2007)
All are in mint condition. £20 for th...
Last week I was in Bahrain and along with two other bird watchers, saw a skein of three graylag geese over fly the farm we were on. On Friday I was on the same farm with the Bahrain bird recorder, Howard King. Howard spotted another goose grazing in one of the fields and this turned out to be a white fronted g...
There were 11 Cormorants loafing on a stone spit adjacent Clippers Quay,opposite the Samuel Platt Pub today, viewed from the pub on Trafford Wharf Rd. One had a white Darvic ring which I couldn't read as I only had bins with me. I know we have some birders on this forum who work in the vicinity, if so pleas...
I have put the entire collection of bird watching magazines march 1986-dec 2007 on E-bay , at present a birder in the midlands is the highest bidder on the grand sum of 99 pence,
20 odd years of interesting articles id tips ect, will deliver anywhere in the manchester
last chance.
its an excellent re...
If anyone wants to see Barn Owl there's one which shows well most evening from 3.30pmish and also sometimes early morning .Go down Higher Green Lane,Astley and park on Whitehead Lane(on the left hand side,about 300yds down).Go through the side of the large metal gate and check the fields on the rhs be...
Hi all
Looking for advice on a family trip i'm taking to Peru.
I will be touring around the south for 2 weeks I.E. Islas Balestas, Nazca, Cusco and Machu pichu,
Then back to for a weeks rest in the north at Trujillo.
I'm the only birder but thats not going to stop me so can anybody help me with some advice...
Watching Bolton beat Utd 1-0 2 peregrines came into stadium, one perched on iron girders of the roof looked like it was getting comfortable for the night. The other kept flying in and out. Also a Grey wagtail flying around confused until it eventually flew up onto the roof. Altogether a very enjoyable...
Rumworth bore, sorry birder, Phil Rhodes is looking for a lift to the Pechora Pipit in Pembrokes tommorrow if anyone is venturing down there late tonight or early tomorrow morning. Phil lives in Westleigh (which according to Phil is still in Bolton, infact so is Pembrokes probably) but can probably...
I was just finishing my TTV at the Wigan Flashes today and returning to my car at Bamfurlong when I heard a Kestrel call - it was on top of a gantry carrying the live electric overhead lines on the W Coast main line railway. As it flew down (possibly carrying something) there was a loud bang and a brilliant f...
I run a Tree Sparrow feeding station on a farm nearby,and during the week whilst chatting to the farmer he mentioned an unusual bird that spent a few weeks in the garden at the farm late last winter.He described the bird as a thrush,as big as or slightly bigger than a Blackbird but smaller than a Mistle Th...
Apparently a call was taken by a colleague at 16.10 from an MOP ( member of the public ) in Didsbury who had found a 'black and white bird, like a small penguine, with webbed feet, AND A DAMAGED WING' in their garden this afternoon and had already released it on the pond in Fog Lane Park, Fog Lane, Didsbury....
driving down m62 around junction 19 eastbound at about 1.30pm
a raven flew over the motorwar quite high - definitely not a crow - wings and tail - very noticeabe.
alos a flock of lapwings in the fields to the right - saw about 6 rise - could have been much more in total
Just watched Autumn Watch for the second time.
3 complaints;;
1. No reference to Kates beaver, Im sure someone posted about this in the past!!!!!!!(who is the guilty poster?)
2.Why during the whole programme was there almost no filming from Martin Mere itself?
3.Why was there no reference to th...
Salford Star magazine have started this petition:
"We, the undersigned, condemn the behaviour of Peel Holdings/BBC at the MediaCity:UK location of North Wharf on Salford Quays - disturbing birds such as Little Ringed Plover, Ringed Plover, Lapwings & Skylarks during the breedin...
My 2 hour surveys today and yesterday revealed 7 Water Rails (+ 1 showing well at Low Hall and 1 calling at Amberswood Lake on the "island" at the S end), 6 Wigeon, Buzzard, Little Owl at New Bear Hey Farm (always difficult to see here but present for years), 34 Pochard, 33 Tufties, 11 Shoveler...
bottom of walford? road, path goes through to golborne, includes woodland area with pond and farmland, couple of streams. connects with path from ashton heath past haydock race course and into golborne. quite a big area.
spent a couple of hours walking round there today. few interesting flyover...
