24/9/07
Did it - 3 Phalaropes in a week !
Went down to Upton Warren this morning for the juvenile bird. Cracking views down to 30 yds from the hide. At one point I had it in the scope with a Curlew Sand, Dunlin and two Snipe !
Pity is wasn`t in God`s County though !
7.30 -13.45
Pinkfeet on the move with loads of skiens going south today counted 825 and picked up a white phase Snow Goose which had been tracked down the coast from Filey. Also over 2000 Mpipits South.
Sea Watching was fantastic Juv Long-tailed Skua sat on sea between blue bell and sea watching hi...
There are at least 4, probably 5 Ring-necked Parakeets trequenting Birchfields Park near Rusholme.
I suspect ity to be a famly party and that breeding took place nearby.
On Sunday afternoon they were giving great views - I've sent some pics for inclusion in the gallery
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...
