News from Andy Makin - he had a pair of Ring Ouzels this morning below the shelter belt at Adam Hill plantation, Burnt Edge but they couldn't be found later by someone who hadn't a lot of time to look due to work commitments. Yesteray, 3 Whimbrel flew over Two Lads Hillin the same area. This evening, Andy h...
This evening 2 R plover 5 LR plover 4 Redshank 5 Snipe 2 Teal 2 Mallard 7 Pied Wagtail 15 Lapwings 2 Kestrels 7 Herons flying over. Also 2 pair of Grey Partridge and 1 Curlew in f67, 3 Curlew in f69, GS Woodpecker in trees at edge of Rindle wood, Tawny Owl and Kestrel over Bedford moss.
A month or so ago Tim Melling (RSPB) and I did interviews with a relatively new magazine, the Salford Star, about Astley Moss East peat milling site. The reporter has done quite a good job - doesn't pull any punches - about the demise of the Nightjar, and the unique Salford Butterfly, there. Salford S...
hi all,I am about to invest in some 10x42 bins to help my county list off the bottom rung,but the choice and range is bewildering.The budjet is £80/£100 and i was wondering if any one has made a recent purchase they like, or some good (optically) second hand ones are available? cheers geoff and no ian i...
im visiting shore top tonight to see what is about if any one has any info on the place it would be much appriciated. it is just off ringly road in whitefield. i will post the sightings when i get back jake
driving through edgeworth towards blackburn when in the village i flushed 2 grey partridge at 8pm on Thursday 12 April -- Edited by sarfraz at 02:55, 2007-04-13
A male Blue Rock Thrush yesterday at Elan near Rhayader and not too far from the Gigrin Farm Red Kite feeding station. First record since the 2000 bird in Cornwall and it would have been extremely popular if it had the decency to hang about. Just got back from Wales and sadly it didn't hang about ! Still, w...
Coronation Power has submitted a planning application to build a 12 turbine wind farm, on the moors above Watergrove reservoir. Details of the proposal can be found at http://www.coronationpower.com/dev_crook.html This conflicts with the local development plan for the area. If this goes ah...
Just got back from Northern Cyprus yesterday (you didn't really think I was just not bothering to update the site did you ) and my trip report with some superb photos will be published soon. No sooner had I got home though when I find that the south side (Paphos etc) had had a couple of real megas, Blyths P...
With all due respect, and without wishing to offend anybody, I`m going to stick my neck out and say what a lot of people are probably thinking. - This forum is for Greater Manchester sightings ; it says so in the `welcome to this forum` - It does what it says on the tin !
Personally I`m not bothered what go...
Last night just before the farce on tele, a pair of Great Spotter Woodpeckers in the trees opposite our house, facing the 16th green... Also Buzzard over head for approx 15 mins before heading towards Carrington over the meadows.. The woodpeckers the attended the feeders in our back garden for 10 m...
A male and female Brambling were present this morning on my allotment that borders Smithalls country park. They were amongst a small chaffinch flock. At my allotment I also have a pair of nuthatches feeding regularly at my feeders :)
hi all,smashing day on lodge, there at dawn before all the the dog walkers and swan feeders etc., 2 oystercatchers 8 pochard 50 bh gull 12 tufted 8 lapwing 1 smew 1 gc grebe 6 moorhen 12 coot ...
It's high time that this log featured more reports from the Stockport area; so here's a start. There was a Blackcap sining weakly from hawthorns on Tenement Lane, Adswood, yesterday afternoon. A Buzzard was using the strong breeze to hover Kestrel-like over the rough ground at the back of the tip. I...
10.00am walked from rugby club, around and up the hill and back to rugby club.saw 2 raven,chaffinch,reed bunting,yelllow hammer,great,blue and long tailed tits,grey partridge,wren,robin,song thrush,blackbird,dunock,wood pigeon,crow and magpie.much cooler than yesterday and overcast...
Watching 13 Great Crested Grebes on Arley reservoir, I noticed one appearing to swim backwards, quite fast at that! I then realised it was hooked to an angler's line which it encountered under water. The chap involved who was quite disstressed was trying to reel it in with difficulty, and fortunat...
Saw a pair of Oystercatchers mating on the roof of an industrial unit at Wardley Industrial site in Swinton tonight at 17.50 pm.They normally mix with the Lapwings which nest on some of the units but I have also seen them walking around the BOC carpark a couple of times. Along Moss lane and Rindle road in...
8 LR Plovers 7 Redshank 30+ Lapwings 5 Teal 4 Snipe 6 BH Gulls 1 Wheatear 2 Swallows 4 Skylarks 3 Kestrels 4 Buzzards Plenty of Yellowhammers + M Pipits While having a walkabout on the edge of the peat moss and Botany bay woods I came across the badly decomposed body of what looked like a female Goosander ,...
10.00am stroll sighted buzzard great tit,blue,coal,long tailed wood pigeon,collard dove crow,magpie gold,green,chaffinch,nuthatch wren,goldcrest,robin,dunnock,blackbird skylark and pheasant around upper fields. no sighting of Kingfisher too many dog walkers about.
In Castleton anyway (which is in Derbyshire). At least 10 birds singing from rocks, walls etc. No Desert cousins though :( Also quite a few Stonechats on Mam Tor
2.00pm A gentle stroll around the spagetti forest i always manage to get lost turned up Great,blue long tailed tits,2 chiff chaff,2 meadow pips,1 skylark,4 reed buntings,chaffinch,crow,magpie,blackbirds,Kestrel. On the lake were 8 tufted,2 gadwall,8 mallard,10 coot,6 moorhen,8 mallard...
