Went down to Watford / Man City on Saturday 1 Kestrel, 2 Sparrowhawks, 6 Buzzards and 10 Red Kites along the various motorways M6/M42/M40/M25 Even 5 years ago it would have been the other way round. Along the M56 I rarely see a Kestrel at all these days - whereas there is a Buzzard every few miles. What is g...
Two Derbs birders found a Wryneck just NE of Hollingworth Hall Farm at SK006979. This is just inside the GM boundary. It couldn't be re-found later this morning, but Rob Adderely and others are going there this afternoon to search for it.
I could only find 3 Water Rail territories in the Abram Flashes - several usual territories were vacant - when I did my annual tape census today and yesterday. Some parts of the Wigan Flashes (but not all) are also down on last year.
There were 4 Grasshoper warblers singing in the Abram Flashes and one...
Today male Ruff on Horrocks plus 2 Oystercatchers, 1 Ringed Plover and 2 Little Ringed Plovers; 23 Common Terns, 100+ Swifts/House Martins, 2 Pink Feet. Also Grasshopper Warbler showing well near Moss Bridge, 2 Sedge Warblers and at least 14 Reed Warblers
i ment to post yesterday but forgot
saw these at the ponds/marshes at the bottom of phillps park road at the side of the moterway
6 canada geese
1 phestan
3 lapwing
3 mallard
2 moorhen
1 song thrush
some of the candas looked to be nesting
jake
I have been in touch with the owners of this site, Peel Holdings. Apparently infrastructure works are due to start at the end of May for the new BBC site there, so they don't want to be held up by breeding birds. Not much we can do about this, then, unless a nest of LR Plovers is found. I also queried the road c...
Remembered to take my MP3 player out with me today, not to listen to music while i bird I've loaded my bird song cds on it and it's great to use in the field. Every spring when the songsters start up it seems like starting from scratch again. Some are really obvious but it's so long since i last heard them i...
sorry didn,t post yesterday,along with 15 sand martins and the usual crowd a common sandpiper was struggling to get to grips with the dock wall and would only settle for a moments in any one spot,it wasn,t there this morning but the sand martins are gathering nesting material.
cheers geoff
Brief visit early this morning of note
1 Linnet singing
1 Sedge Warbler singing (a pleasant surprise)
2 Whitethroat singing
1 Swift
Also the aquaduct is a very good place to get right in amongst the Sand Martins that nest in the brickwork. A great experience as they skim past your ear.
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2 Med Gulls flying round Heaton Park at 18.30 this eve for an hour, Adult and 2nd Summer bird in a flock of 40 or so Black headed Gulls.
Also picked up a distant Osprey from Heaton Park flying north over the M61 dicrection.
Not a bad evening's birding!
Another successful breeding season for Ringed Plovers on rough ground around SportCity has seen 3 chicks hatched. Well, at least the birds are a success for this stadium!?
Others of note are the Lapwings nesting there too, 3 pairs this year. The pair of Little Ringed Plovers were chased off by th...
New scope, its spring and I had a full day to bird Rumworth Lodge 1 Dunlin 1 LRP 5 Common terns 3 Cormorants 2 Oystercatchers 2 Singing Reed Buntings Abram 2 Blackwits (county lifer) on first pool on your southwards down the canal from Red Lion Pub. Is this Dover Basin 1 Lesser Whitethroat nr the first far...
Barn owl seen Sunday flying low over M60 between jct 24 and 25. Around 3.30 am. I am unfamiliar with the area around those junctions - would that be close to Reddish Vale? How do we do for barn owl sightings overall?
39 SPECIES ENCOUNTERED ON TODAYS SURVEY. They included 6 Grey Partridge, 18 Lapwings, 13 Yellowhammers, 10 Skylarks, 6 Linnets, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 2 Redshank and 1 Snipe
Still 9 Blackwits at Dover Basin (8 in breeding plumage) and a singing Lesser Whitethroat, showing well, on the canal at Lightshaw Hall Flash nr the farm on the canal - a regular site for this species. Also Gropper singing on the marsh at Lightshaw
ok shakey start but but does anyone know the big picture on the noth wharf plans and what we can do about it.last i heard on the news that the bbc,s move to salford had suffered a major set back because they will not increase the licence fee to pay for the move cheers geoff
arrived 9.20am after school run hoping wood sandpiper would still be there, thought i would be in with a good chance after all the rain last night .how wrong could i be . was told it had flown 8.00am ish, but i was soon smiling again after spotting my first dunlin,common sandpiper and lesser whitethrot...
Liverpool council are using robotic falcons to scare away pigeons - seems a bit strange because there are real falcons in Birkenhead already - would a robo falcon scare away a real Peregrine ? -- Edited by Ian McKerchar at 22:02, 2007-04-23
Had a stroll around Heaton Park early Sunday morning and caught up with Lesser Spotted Woodpecker again. It was in the Horticultural Centre gardens, where it flew north from. Not much else of note in the park, with a Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcaps, 8 Willow Warblers, 2 Swallows, 2 House Martins. Also fo...
I was night fishing on Higher Hall Flash at Bickershaw on Friday night when I heard a Cuckoo. It was about 4 in the morning. It started calling somewhere behind us on the north side of the lake and then later moved over to the south side. It was there a few hours.
Sorry for late posting, yesterday (21st) 3 snipe were flying around the pits at c.8PM, also 2 singing groppers (1 showing very well) and several swift.
Flogged the local patch today after walking round Elton had a walk round Ringley again nothing much doing a lot of duck have cleared out since friday with no Teal and Tufted duck numbers halving. 11 Goosander flew south, 10 Swallow, 17 Gadwall and an increase in Blackcap were of note.
Cracking male peregrine sat on a fence post couple of hundreds yard from canal towpath at Coney Green Flashes. LRP, Oyc, 4 Swallow, 2 Sedge Warbler Elton Res nothing else of note really.
cheers geoff