urban birding,love it,7.00 8.00 13/09/07
lots of garden birds and i,ve only counted what i,ve seen so the population must be much higher
20 woodpigeons 3 mistle thrush
1 greatspotted 2 jays (new to my salford list)
1 sparrowhawk
12 magpie
4 robin
2 crows
20 longtailed tits
10 great tits
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Wigan Council have now agreed to the shooting of the Ruddy Duck at Pennington and Pearson's Flashes, despite determined opposition over the last year by the main opposition party. Eventually they delegated it to the Director of Planning to deal with. Opponents were contacted by the Planning Dept e...
From Phil Martin: 2 Ravens on top of the Granada TV building were mobbed for 5-10 mins at 1800 hrs, Wednesday, by 3 Peregrines, which eventually gave up. The Ravens looked very settled. Haveing been evicted from the Town Hall due to the noise of the clock chiming, maybe this might be their new home??
Ta...
eh up all,just in case you don,t check the main site first, adrian dancy has posted an exelllent piece on the manchester peregrines with photo,s ,having been there ,tried that i can only marvel at the clarity,etc and enjoy the images.thanks for sharing em with us adrian.roll on their return
cheers...
Hi Folks, So now that we have an excellent website/forum I thought it might be a good idea to put some faces to the names on here and organise a birding day out of the County! I was thinking somewhere in Yorkshire in August maybe Bank Holiday weekend at the end of the month. Possible sites from the followin...
Walked through park yesterday evening, not much about, but a mixed Titmouse flock contained the following:
Long-tailed Tit 40+
Blue Tit 15+
Great Tit 12+
Coal Tit 6
Goldcrest 3
Chiffchaff 2
Willow Warbler 3
Spotted Flycatcher 2+
Nuthatch 2
Worth keeping your eye on any large flocks whe...
Brisk and fresh in the valley this morning, many thanks for your company to day Bill,
treecreeer
goldcrest
100 plus canada geese 2 dark looking ones
little grebe
willow warbler
chiff-chaff
meadow pipits
goldfinchs
3 partridge under hedge where redstart has been all august
but no redsta...
As a long shot, I'm wondering if any one has a cable release bracket, the pennine optical variety, for a Contax sl300r camera? I seem to have misplaced mine and before spending £50 on a new one, which is nothing more than a small peice of metal, I just wondered if on the off chance had one they're willing to...
An elite group was sent to spurn this afternoon, nice to finally get there after the fun everyone had the other week.
nice to meet you all and it good to know manchester birders return to keep a eye on everything.
i see from the pager that your seawatch went well rob congrates
and warfy and his dad caugh...
I've just had an email from Halifax Bird Club (in my capacity as Sec. to ACRE- Assn of County Recorders and Editors) saying that a hide owned by Bradford OS at Ringstone Resr (Yorkshire Water) in Calderdale Borough has been assessed for rates at £70 per annum !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If this idea takes off I ca...
I went up to Watergrove this afternoon to look for Whinchat, a species that has eluded me so far this year. Just when I was beginning to despair of anything good turning up this autumn, as so far there has not been a single wader here apart from a few Lapwings. An immature Yellow Wagtail was feeding on the d...
A Little Egret was present on Akzo Pond at 1150 this morning before flying off low in the direction of Hollingworth Lake. Unfortunately it could not be relocated here. This is the first record of the species for the Hollingworth Lake area and the Rochdale borough. Simon -- Edited by Ian McKerchar at 12...
110+ Teal at Lightshaw Flash, conveniently flushed by the shooter putting corn down for them. On Dover Basin 3 Wigeon, a shot Mallard and another dead on the towpath nearby. Not a good idea to go to this area now the shooting season has started, particularly Saturdays and Wednesdays in the late aftern...
9 Buzzards circling over Blackrod for 15 mins at 0930 hrs. (L. Garnett per Tony Johnson)
A male Yellow Wagtail and 20+ Linnets, 120+ Greenfinches on f59, Astley Moss this morning (potato field now ploughed)
2 Hobbies and 2 Yellow Wagtails Little Woolden Moss (per Dave Steel)
An adult Buzzard was standing in the middle of Cross lane in the centre of Salford this morning at 6.25 am.It was inspecting a recent roadkill of a Squirrel and was not very pleased about my approaching car.I got within 40` before it flew and perched on a nearby house. I parked up a little further down the...
Hi all, thought i put my sightings on for the last week or so from Ashworth Moor Res, there has been some good migration through with a few good birds - for Rochdale anyway. Pintail - 1 29th Yellow Wag - 1 24th, 2 29th Whinchat - 2 29th White Wag - the best autumn on record for this species here; 4 24th, 2 25th, 1...
On the pavement and rooftops of Alexandra Road off Langworthy Road this morning, also saw one fly over (?the same bird?) nearby about a week or so ago.........I didn't age it but could this be possible evidence of breeding by the pair that were on North Wharf for most of the Spring ?
After a relatively quiet few weeks, an excellent few hours this morning were enjoyed that makes local patch watching certainly worth the effort! First up were 2 Kingfishers watched disputing over fishing rights over a small lodge. Close up views of them as they "zipped" low over the glas...
does anyone have any info on croxden peatworks or bickershaw coal rucks as i want to find my first jack snipe this winter and have heard these are the places to try. cheers
Monday 13th. County birder Pete Berry is taking part in an organised seawatch off Porthgwarra over the next week, although the seawatches are taking place at many sites across the south coast of England throughout the late summer and autumn. Today was his first day there and this is what he recorded t...
Quick tour around the resrs at lunchtime today;
3 Whinchats (male & 2 juvs) may have bred locally, but not regular at this site.
2 Stonechats (the male still in brilliant breeding plumage)
100+ Canada geese (inc one Greylag hybrid)
c12 Tufties
16 Mallard
7 Lapwing
2 Heron
1 Gt Crested Gr...
A few migrants this morning - at least 3 Spotted Flycatchers, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Wheatear, 4 Blackcaps, 20+ Willow Warblers & a Curlew over.
Yesterday 3 Redstarts all together in one little hawthorn bush! Felt like I was at Spurn....well maybe not quite!
Simon
