Perhaps the best week's garden viewing in 21 years started with a huge passage of Swifts 5/8, perhaps 500+ all going south. On Wed, 8th, a full adult Med Gull circled around in the evening for about 1/4 hour, following harvesting in the adjoining field, and on Thurs 8th 4 Buzzards soared for over half an...
I have located black redstart along Mossley Street Manchester and feel confident they have bred. Please keep an eye out for the birds which are active on the roof tops near the Art Gallery. I located them first by call and have not as yet seen them come to ground to feed. I will be contacting relevant buil...
Garganey and Goldeneye still present today, also broods of Tufted, Little Grebe, GC Grebe and a certain unmentionable species... numbers of Shoveler also increasing.
Very wet and not much doing 7 Gadwall, 17 Teal, 22 Little Grebe found another pair with young so defo 3 pairs bred possibly 4. Tufted duck with 4 yng, 20 Swift, 15 House martin and 36 Swallow
Details of the atlas project are covered elsewhere, but a big thank you to Henerz1 for volunteering to do a tetrad in 'my' 10km area of SJ78. Any takers for Altrincham town centre ??
I did a similar survey for the Cheshire and Wirral Atlas project last year, and it is very addictive trying to get new spe...
Pearson's Flash: Garganey, which promptly disappeared into the reed bed, immature Goldeneye, 175+ Tufted Duck,
22 Gadwall, 4 Shoveler. Ian W also had a brood of Tufties (6y)
Horrocks Flash: 304 Lapwing, 8 Shoveler, 6 Snipe (12 the other day), one family of terns left there only, now.
Although not really within the Greater Manchester boundary, some birders and certainly Rochdale birders, consider the complex of reservoirs up there as part of our area. So i thought i'd better pass on that Alan Nuttall found an avocet at whiteholme res on saturday afternoon. Big thanks and great r...
Sorry if this has been done before but I'm a newbie so it's allowed.
Come on... you must all have some... bare your soul...say your confession... it's cathartic!
-Setting fire to my sleeping bag with a cigarette after an exhausting afternoon pursuing Booted Warbler at Spurn
-Banging on abou...
2 Green Sand, 11 Gadwall, 23 Teal, 3 Goosander, 3 Swift, Spahawk, Jay, 40 Blue Tit, 12 Long-tailed Tit & 16 Chiffchaff all in one flock plus another 2 Chiffchaff elsewhere, 5 Blackcap, single Whitethroat & Willow Warbler and 20 Little Grebe 13 adults, 2 well grown Juv and 5 chicks. Seems to be a...
Never been here before i didn't realise how big the place is.
Had a 3 hour walk which took in the main Mere and surrounding woods.
The Mere had fantastic numbers of Great Crested Grebes 60+ probably nearer 80. Loads of juv with plenty of adults still sitting on nests(6 at least). A Buzzard flying over...
stroll after tea
30+golfinch in the cow field munching on thistles
2 swallows feeding young in the nest
20 house martins also feeding young
1 yellow hammer
1 jay
1 kestrel
1 buzzard
4 common tern
lapwings on lightshaw
b/head gulls on lightshaw
1 curlew (headed for wigan flashes) a site fir...
A Hobby flew almost directly overhead this evening and then obligingly landed in a tree for a couple of minutes. My first record of this species here since 1995.
A male Whinchat was found on Clegg Hall Marsh this afternoon by Alan Nuttall. No sign of it this evening.
2 drake Common Scoter on Hollingworth Lake this morning. 4 drakes on White Holme Res'r this evening.
Thought that was a pretty good tally until I heard that there were 38 this evening at Green Withens Res'r which is just over the dark side of the county boundary.
Cheers, Simon
Cracking day for a walk in the woods to cool my very red sunburn was the middle of the afternoon not realy a good time to go birding especially with dog in tow.Very few birds about but manged great and blue tits.The odd Blackbird sending warning signals to all the other birds. Reached the stepswith very l...
First of all... Apologies to Ian for not familiarising myself with the Posting Protocol Everyone else... Hello! (*waves) Pete ... one tentless tramp spotted near St Werburgh's Road E-mail is having a hissy fit. Am off work w/c 13th (as in not in London) and, if weather good, might lurk in a Waterpark b...
This was my first real chance of getting out after returning from uni in amongst constant rain showers over the past week! Highlight was 2 singing Lesser Whitethroats (+ 1 seen briefly, an adult). No evidence of breeding but their prescence is looking good for a bit of reproduction. A...
I have been birding in the Timperley / Altrincham area regularly this Spring and Spring 2006. Every time I have been I've seen Pochard.
In 2006 there were at least 10 (7m, 3f) present during the Spring on King George V Pool. I went abroad for the summer in late May and don't know how long into the summe...
Whilst it is not, nor shall it be, my intention to inform users of this forum to new items on the website (that's what the 'what's new to this site' page is for ), just this once, due to the amount of work involved in the making of it, I would like to let you know of the new article I've just published, especial...
Barrow Bridge, Wednesday 1st August (how the hell did that get round so fast), dinner-time
Redstart- a female calling and seen very briefly (due to the bloody thick cover there) opposite the very last house up the road before you reach the track up the woods themselves. I stuck around this area for a...
Following the three singing male Redstarts earlier in the year, I saw a male and recently fledged young bird, the first confirmed breeding record for the valley, though 2 juveniles in the same area last year probably indicate they bred then too. Also recently was the first confirmed breeding record...
Swifts have nested in my next door neighbours house for the last 11 years,at least. This year the Swifts returned but didn't appear to nest. I watched them flying around the neighbourhood but they didn't take up there usual nest site. However in the last few days they have started flying into the usua...
I'm off to Ely next week and hope to visit Lakenheath (anyone know if the Cranes are still there ?), Weeting Heath, Wicken Fen and Welney - and Ely cathedral, some tea rooms and other such non-birding activitties to keep the missus quiet.
Anyone know if they have had flooding down there or any other...
29/07/07
1 Egyptian Goose, 1 Muscovy Duck, 2 GC Grebe, 3 Tufted Duck on the lake
also a juv Mute Swan with one - birth defect ? - leg pointing up at about 75 degrees from its' body
Glossy Ibis, 2 Little Egret, 516+ Blacktailed Godwit, 130 Curlew other than that poor for waders with only couple of Oyc's, Redshank and single Dunlin. Lots of Swallow's moving south tho about 200+
Rhodes sewage farm, Hobby flew south at 8am, also 2 Gadwall, Little Grebe, Sparrowhawk, Common Buzzard, 4 Kestrel,Green Sandpiper,2 Stock Dove, Kingfisher, + Dipper on River Irwell near by. Clifton Marina, 32 Tufted Duck,4 Great crested Grebe. Croal-Irwell Confluence, 8 Goosander, Great spot...
