cracking views of 4 of the 5 eagle owls after a long wet trek. one of the youngsters was ripping into what looked like a rabbit. also 2 peregrines and a very vocal buzzard. saw a swift fly into its nest-cavity in a roof on the way up
There's a Manchester RSPB trip to Conwy coming up this Sunday 8/7/7
(meet at the Gateway Hotel, Parrs Wood 09:00 if you're interested)
Anyone visited recently, or any decent birds along the North Wales coast at the moment ?
I believe there's a few Manxies and Skuas been seen off Little Orme...
male common scoter and 3 black necked grebe at houghton gren pool at 4pmdon't know why i put this up twice it had dissapeared last time i looked -- Edited by JOHN TYMON at 20:19, 2007-07-07
Picked up a knackered kittiwake today just off mossely road M14 in colleage campus not quite an albatross but keep on looking you never know whats about.
There is an article about the Bittern that`s been seen and heard lately at Wigan Flashes on John Dempsey`s excellent web-site. Go to - birdblog.merseyblogs.co.uk I guess the secret is well and truly out now ! -- Edited by Ian Woosey at 20:05, 2007-07-05
I like to see what juveniles I get in my garden. List of Immatures ocurring almost daily are 3 Magpies (have a habit of doing funny things like going into greenhouse and picking up the stones and chucking them in the bird bath and poking it) 1 Goldfinch (2 adults) likes nijer seed Blue Tits Great Tits 1 Bul...
it takes more than the mind-bending horrors of the british weather to keep me indoors! set off for marbury park in monsoon conditions knowing there was a few hides and plenty of big trees to duck under if it continued, which thankfully it didnt. plenty of birds still singing including a couple of crack...
After a 'tour' of the Sefton coast today, imagine my surprise after calling into Crosby Marina and setting my scope up against the railings looking into Seaforth, when the very first bird I look at is an adult Roseate Tern Now I realise there had been one around afew weeks ago (no news since then though)...
Took a walk in the poring rain up Belmont road and over scout road. Heard one chiffchaff and two willowarbler plus several reed bunting. Also heard two grasshopper warblers reeling. One was in the field on the left just past the Wilton Arms pub on Belmont road, the other up on scout road halfway towards...
Just back from a week holiday in Anglesey. Plenty of good birds - highlight was a very large Peregrine flying no more than 20 feet above my head at Southstack - there was no one else there at the time.
Puffins went down a treat as usual (8-9 pairs at Southstack) and plenty of other sea birds.
The tr...
point of ayr marsh and from the hide(only me in it blissfull birding) ,i didn,t try to count them but more curlew and shelduck than one place needs
a little egret,oystercatchers loads of wagtails,skylarks,meadow pipet,stonechat the list goes on but you already know the rest.after high tide 12.0...
Large numbers of swallows and martins over the new water works off banky meadow approx
50+ sand martins
30+ Swallows
20+ swifts
70 + starling
3 grey wagtail
12 pied wagtail
Whitethroat and sedge warbler and 1 soggy Tawny owl been watched by a soggy birder.
I spent another 8 hours at the city centre peregrine site today...it seems my misspent youth has followed me into old age! I can confirm that the juveniles seen by me today have red Darvic rings numbered B1, B2 and B4. I think B4 is the female. She certainly looks big. The quest remaining is to spot B3 hopi...
had a flock of around 20 long tailed tits in the garden. later a pair of whooper swans flew over towards the city centre. finaly a verry funny sight of a juvinile blackbird trying to eat a worm around 8-10 inches long jake
Hi, Trying to get hold of a copy of The New Approach to Identification by Peter Grant my copy was loan out and has never come back, if anyone has a copy please let me know, cheers.
sorting through my bookshelves today and have the following for sale;
Witherbys handbook of British Birds 5 volumes £25
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HI, Just for info at a private site this week we had
1 male eclispe Wigeon
1 male eclispe pochard arrived mid week could have come via king georges pools
large flock of coot 60+
2 bullfinch
and a leucistic black headed gull,
Buzzard flew over friday afternoon, although its wet its always wo...
JUST GOT BACK FROM THE FLASH-STILL FLOODED-KINFISHER-2 OYSTERCATCHER,3 ADULT AND 3 JUV COMMON TERNS-ADULTS FEEDING THEM AT THE FRONT OF SCREEN-NOT SURE THEY HAVE BRED THERE OR COME FROM HORROCKS,CRACKIN VIEWS OF A FOX AT THE FRONT OF NEW HIDE -GOT SOME BELTIN PHOTOS OF IT,SORT THEM AT THE WEEKEND SO...
i,ve recently purchased a new camera and very pleased with it i am,it,s an olymus sp-51ouz bellting thinghy all whistle,bangs and menus ,got some nice photos and a lot of digital dust to get rid of (you slr chaps can now say i
told you so)but if you,ve got a christmas list pop it on it
geoff,unoff...
Last weekend it was a pleasure to help ring/monitor the breeding Barn Owls on Astley Moss under a Schedule 1 licence issued by the BTO. It seems as though the owls have not had a bad year! In several boxes there were large ''stashes'' of wood mice, shrews etc. At one farm, we were just going into a barn when...
ok, days out and trips to forign climes are fine with me,but how many of you have met each other but not met each other at the various locations and hides within 'our patch' and then seen a posting similar to the one you were just going to write?? anyway my idea is a gm birders meet in gm maybe audenshaw or pen...
