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.
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)
