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.
Ian and I have been on site today to meet the Site Manager of the new gravel extraction work that has just started.They have promised to put in a pathway for birders to use when all the access work and necessary construction work has been completed,but until then they have asked us to let everybody know t...
WHY IS IT THESE DAYS ALMOST EVERY BIRD SEEMS TO HAVE RINGS,AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS IT IS NOT ALWAYS NESSASARY.DO WE REALY NEED TO RING EVERY BLUE TIT,MOORHEN,BLACKBIRD,DUNNOCK,ETC ITS NOT THAT I DON'T REALISE THAT SOME BIRDS DO REQUIRE RINGING ,BUT IT WOULD BE GREAT ONE DAY TO GET A PHOTOGRAPH OF A B...
For a bit of a milestone, check out the 'Notice Board' on the website p.s. this post has been transferred to another new message due to the old one not apparently working for everyone (including me) -- Edited by Ian McKerchar at 22:06, 2007-06-20
Not had much time for birding recently but spent 5 mins looking out my window this morning @ 7.30
14 House Sparrows
2 Goldfinch
2 collared Doves
1 Woodpigeon
4 Jay - 2 adults 2 juves
1 Magpie chasing off the Jays
3 Great Tit
2 Blue Tit
watching the Jays for 10 mins wandering around t...
LATE VISIT 6-7.20PM .JUST IN TIME TO GET DRENCHED .
COULDNT BELIEVE HOW MUCH HAS CHANGED THERE WASNT THIS MUCH WATER BACK IN DECEMBER .ONLY WENT IN HORROCKS ,NEW HIDE AND SCREEN ROUND RAMMYS.
HORROCKS-
ONLY MANAGED TO SEE CANADA GEESE HEADS STICKING OUT ABOVE WHAT LOOKED LIKE THE BRAZILLIAN...
On a recce for my Lips survey (Lapwings in Plots) I had Grey Partridge, Common Whitethroat, 1 f Wheatear and loads of Skylarks - only one Lapwing though. I'll do the survey proper early one morning next week.
This was at Dairyhouse Farm (field 37 on the Carrington Moss map)
Sat. Heoron in field Cootes with young on main lake M/F GC Grebe with 5 young on main lake GS Woodpecker Dipper on River Young Dipper on River Chiffchaffs - heard but not seen Grey Wagtails Pied Wagtails Jay -- Edited by geoff at 07:50, 2007-06-18
I just had to post this link on here for those who like 'falls' of migrants anywhere and this small American island certainly does, the migrants in the pictures are simply so mouthwatering I'm looking forward to September/October already. Anyway, links don't work on this forum (purposefully I'm af...
great finally got some time off work
Morning stroll birds showing well along canal
sedge warblers
coal,blue,great,willow,long tailed tits
red shanks in farmers field
greenfinches and chafinches
one very young signet on canal
chiffchaffs.
horrocks-
plenty common t...
Hi all
Here`s some info. about local wildlife on TV...
"Saving Planet Earth" BBC1:
Former Coronation Street star, Shobna Gulati, travels across the North West and sees some of the projects in place to help our endangered wildlife. Shobna finds out about whales and dolphin...
Had a walk round Ringley this morning for a couple of hours....ended up having 50 species!
Green Sand, Singing Yellowhammer, pair of Kestrel going ape at a Buzzard, Spahawk, 15 Lapwing North, loads of Swifts, Swallow's and Whitethroats, Kingfisher, GSW, 4 Bullfinch and a female Gadwall with 1...
A little help is required so i know im not going mad !!!
was driving home tonight from the reebok stadium horwich, as i drove up to the motorway a crow sized bird flew right across infront of me and settled on the central reservation, i looked at it and it looked like a crow and it was huge but it was light...
day1 - snettisham= singing turtle dove (lifer) and lesser whitethroat / egyptian geese / sum. plum. bar t. godwit / red l. partridge / sandwich and comm. terns / stock doves / marsh harrier / green woodpecker / nesting b. h. gulls, oystercatchers, avocets and med. gulls / also hares and a dead seal on be...
