After PaulH mentioned this book in the girlie tick thread i decided to dig it out and read it again.
It sems not much has changed in the birding world since it was written. Apart from quality scopes and digital photography. Still a good and funny read.
This extract on sea watching had me in stitches....
Nothing outstanding the last week or two but things picking up in last few days, highlights include;
SISKIN - 1 north west this morning - patch tick
HOUSE SPARROW - 1 male on the 21st - patch tick
Yellow Wagtail - 1 south on the 21st
Meadow Pipit - 200 on south dam wall on the 21st with 50+ today and simi...
Thinking of going out of the county tomorrow (risky of missing a Wilsons Phalarope i know) for the juvenile Long Tailed Skua that has been sat in a field all week near Nottingham, then heading back maybe via Blacktoft.
May have a spare place if anyone fancies it send me a pm.
Simon
firstly sorry you girls out there but you know what i mean,i was very pleased to get my blackredstart tick in the city center,only to see warfy,s tick labelled as'girlie' so what,s what, loads of listers now have nightjar to their credit.(cert girlie) i personally stalked an egyptian goose the other...
Some conservation work is scheduled for the islands at Rumworth Lodge on Sunday 7th October. This will include renovations to the cockle beds. There won't be many birds about.
If you'd like to help contact Tony Johnson on 01204 468850.
40+ Pink-footed Geese flying south-east over the east side of the city centre at 5pm this evening.
Also peregrine flying east over St Peters Square, 3:30pm.
This could well be a little long winded, so stick with it....
There are sites within our county where information is currently witheld due to certain reasons, some valid and some less so but my question is, would you rather know of a, let's say a rarity, at a site you couldn't have access to or not
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18.30 -19.30pm 300+ Swallow present with 150+ House Martin 20+ Sand Martin, White Wag, Yellow Wag over south Greylag Goose with Canada's and aslo an Ad Yellow-legged Gull but flew off in direction of Audenshaw at 19.20pm -- Edited by Simon Johnson at 21:58, 2007-09-17
we went on the liver cruise today at liverpool
bit eventful as we got out in to the mouth of the estuary
and the sea got choppy some one fell and hurt themselves
and a few got a bit seasick so we had to go back and drop
them off at seacombe after this we went back out and saw 1 maybe 2 arctic skuas
up to 5 litll...
Visited for a stroll on Saturday afternoon 2:30-5:30pm
Dove Stone Reservoir
Meadow Pipit 20+
Pied Wagtail 6
Sand Martin 6
House Martin 30+
Mallard 50+
Canada Goose 10+
Willow Warbler 1
LT Tit 15
Goldcrest 2
Chew Reservoir and Dove Stone Moor
Peregrine 3 (2 Adts, 1 Juv)
Kestrel 1
Ra...
morning 9.00-10.00
12 tufties
4pochard
family of swans with 3 young
loads of coot and moorhen
family of greatcrested grebe with 3 young
24 mallard
great spotted woodpecker
plenty of tit flocks great,blue and long tailed
song thrush
blackbird
robin
wren
kestrel
sparrow hawk
2 Ravens over (rare here), with 1 Buzzard, 2 Grey Wags, 2 Herons, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Sparrowhawk, 5 broods of noisy Great Crested Grebes, Goldcrest in song!, 1 late Swift moving south, 1 Dipper on river, also Kestrel, Chiffchaff, Jay, Little Grebe, Cormorant and Nuthatch
does anyone here watch this area? you can walk from dover lock at abram across the cow field, and under the railway bridge and you are there. then you can continue across bolton road onto the other side and that will take you to the three sisters.
the forestry commision have planted tonnes of trees the...
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
1...
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...
