My dad has just `phoned me to say that a young lady has been round the houses asking had anyone seen their falcon which has escaped from the Whelley area of Wigan. It`s a Saker/Gyr hybrid (must be an impressive looking bird !) with its jesses and a red leash still attached. It is also ringed and fully regis...
AMBERSWOOD:-2 CUCKOOS CALLING TO ONE ANOTHER,2 TUFTED,8 MALLARD 2 PAIRS WITH YOUNG,GREAT CRESTED GREBE,4PAIRS OF COOT,4 MOORHEN,2 MUTE SWANS,2 RED BUNTING AND A WARBLER AT THE FAR END AWAY FROM CROMPTON STREET,2 SKYLARKS .NOT SURE ON WARBLER TYPE VERY ELLUSIVE.
LOW HALL:- 2 WHITETHROTE, 2 R...
I had a business meeting in Lingley Mere so called in at PF on the way home.
Very breezy and not much about.
Of note
3 Redshank
3 LRP
2 or 3 Lapwing chicks
100+ Swifts
had a pair of gargany at dover basin this morning 7.30 till 7.35 and again on glovers pool abram 11.20 they are very skittish so a careful approach is called for,if anyones going to pennington please time any gargany sightings for us
cheers geoff
8 Yellow Wagtails on Chat Moss today as follows: 2 on field 59 (where the Woosey/Hargreaves duo found them), the female of which was busy collecting nesting material and flying over the road into the oppsite field. 1 flew east over field 63. Also present in this field 2 Wheatear, afew Skylarks and Stoc...
VERY SLOW WALK AROUND THE POND WITH MANY STOPS ALONG THE WAY TO WATCH THE BIRDS.
5 GOLDFINCH
4 CHAFFINCH
4 WHITETHROTE
2 REED WARBLER
4 CHIFFCHAFF
2 SONG THRUSH
2 REED BUNTING
2 JAYS
2 MUTE SWANS
1 RUDDY DUCK MALE
4 COOT
1 PHEASANT MALE
1 GREAT TIT
1 LONG TAILED TIT
A leucistic male Tuftie there this morning - milky chocolate colour where it should be black, otherwise standard Tuftie. With a pair.
Also: 3 Dunlin, 3 Ringed Plover, 3 Little Ringed Plover, pair Redshank.
On Bryn Marsh 4 Little Ringed Plover, Redshank heard.
Arctic Tern obligingly perched on buoy #4
Common Tern swooping about, but nesting rafts packed out with BH Gulls
Dunlin, Redshank, Oyc, 3 LRP, and drake Garganey from Horrocks Hide
Warbler fest with Sedge, Reed, Garden, Grasshopper, Willow, Chiffchaff and Blackcap all seen or heard.
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SET OFF WED MORNING FIRST STOP CONWAY RSPB UNFORUNATELY A FORCE 5 GALE BLOWING DOWN THE VALLEY QUICK LOOK THROUGH TWO OF THE HIDES ONLY SHELLDUCK AND CANADAS VISIBLE AND ONE COMMON SAND HIDING UNDER A BANKING.NEXT STOP WAS LANFAIRFECHAN 200 OYSTER CATCHERS ON TIDE LINE ,6 COMMON TERN,1 LITTLE EGRET ,...
I will tell all, just to stop my mate keith reminding me of a snap id one misty morning at wigan flashes. We had gone to see the R C pochard on Pearsons. The mist was dense in patches as we approched the water along the canal bank. I saw a buff coloured head merging into a redish flank with darker markings,...
whilst a good few gm birders were having tea and bicckies at pennington, i struck out to increase me listing in the wilds of abram, of note
2 redhank 1 shellduck
2 sedge warblers 4 reed bunting all at dover
around abram/fields
1 g.s.woodpecker 4 chiffchaff
1 jay and then most of the usual...
ECO BIRD RACE 2007 - SALFORD Long gone are my days of "carbon footprint birding" (national twitching and 24 hour car dash county bird races) but the desire to "race" and list is still there - hence the next level concept of Eco Bird Race, a full days environmentally friendly bird...
just asking but is there a reason that arctic terns favour pennington and not
wigan flashes is it because of food or is wigan flashes off the arctic terns
migration route and pennington is or is it another reason jimmy
two wiganers(me and ian woosey) on an early morning raid had cracking morning on foreign soil,hightights were
2 cuckoo (1 seen 1 calling)
1 curlew
1 corn bunting (singing)
2 yellow wagtail
10+yellowhamm
1 buzzard
2 tree sparrow
1 sparrowhawk
lots of others you expect,6 cou...
Some time soon, when I get the chance, going to do a Salford Eco Bird Race ie: a full days bird race in the borough of Salford using "eco friendly" means ie: foot and bike
If anyone has any sightings from the Salford area that might be able to help me out that have not previously been mention...
love it hate it it,your opions please,havin dabbled and got some nice pictures on the puter,just wondered if anyone can give any tips to us starters
deep int bushes geoff
A male Blue-headed Wagtail was showing well to at least late morning at Audenshaw Resrs today. Paul Hammond found it very early, and Tony O'Mahony also saw it about 1130am.
On the R. Irwell about 1/4m N of the weir at Springside, N of Burrs CP, there was a brood of 11 Goosander chicks with a female today...
early a.m.
Garden Warbler - at the back of Teal Hide
From the `luxury` of Horrocks Hide, Jimmy Meadows and I (us Wigan lads are used to `roughing it` at the Flashes !) observed the following ;
drk Garganey
drk Wigeon
2 Dunlin (3 initially)
2 LRP
2 RP
Common Sandpiper
3+ Redshan...
Red-breasted Merganser at Pennington today, briefly at 08:30 and 3 Whimbrel over (info per John Lyons).
I had a Lesser Whitethroat singing briefly at the Slag Lane end, just off the canal tow path where the telephone/power lines cross the canal and a Garden Warbler on the south side behind the to...
Along Moss Lane Astley
2 Cuckoo`s calling at the same time,
6 Wheatears
1 Kestrel
1 Buzzard soaring over Astley moss
4 Grey Partridge
Along Rindle road
2 Whitethroats
1 Cuckoo sat on telephone pole calling
6 Tree Sparrows near feeding station
4 Yellowhammers
Bedford mo...
4 Whimbrel were feeding on Crook Moor this evening at 18:00 hrs by the wind farm test mast. I watched them for about 15 minutes before they were flushed by two walkers and flew off to the east, trilling. My highest ever count of this species in the Rochdale area.
A pair of Mistle Thrushes on the grass outside the Scottish Widows building on Portland St. and a pair of Blue Tits by the war memorial on St Peters Square.
Should provide a tastey snack for the Peregrines if they get fed up of Pigeons.
