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...
Been waiting for details of my permit from Ed UU as Audenshaw is now locked down, Has anyone got keys yet ?. And is there another way to get hold of ed at United Utilities as ive tried snail mail, email and telephone and still no Joy.
Thanks
Andrew
The Common Terns young are now flying around, which made them difficult to count. At least 5 or 6 maybe more coming and going to the rafts. There was one very young still on one of the rafts. Looks like a good year which is great news.
Someone asked on an earlier thread, which i can't find, about ring...
An adult male merlin was sat on the telephone post in the small meadow on the left side of Moss lane just passed the first house near the junction of Rindle road. It stayed very still for about 5 minutes until a Kestrel sat on the telephone wires a little further down , it saw the merlin in seconds and quickl...
Pete Berry and I had 6 Ravens (a family group) flying south low from over the railway onto Croxdens Peat Works on Chat Moss this morning. They wandered around the bare peat for afew minutes before flying on again.
14 Black tailed Godwits ,over, flying north west to south east at 9am, also Oystercatcher, Redshank, Kingfisher, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 6 Sedge Warbler, 4 Reed Warbler, 3 Blackcap, Garden Warbler near New hide, 8 Common Whitethroat + 2 Linnets from Teal hide.
I was wondering if people would be interested in doing a day trip on a ferry to Ireland or Isle of Man (if anyone does cheap day returns) in mid September,good chance of Leach's and Stormie as well as Skuas,Shearwaters and maybe Sabs.If there's enough interest I'll check out a few ferry prices. Pete Ber...
A quick look down rindle road this afternoon produced an adult peregrine, single barn owl and a male stonechat singing on wires over the scrubby area between moss lane and nook lane.
Hope carr had at least 3 green sands (these have regularly been on the small pool on the left just past the last new buil...
Had 2 Wood Sandpipers(lifer) and 5 Green Sanpipers at Martin Mere today
Also sum plum Ruff, a black speckled one not in full splendour looked like a juv from last year.
Dean.
