Just back from an amble round the Mersey Valley (Chorlton Ees, Chorlton Water Park, Broad Ess Dole). Turned up 28 species without too much effort - and a few bautterflies as well. Highlights: Singing Blackcap, Chorlton Ees, Little Ringed Plover, Broad Ees Dole. I only saw one LPR but my guess is t...
hi all,firstly a brief history of the site, 05 reported 4 fledged ,06 observed by me but not dated(sorry) one brood of 3 and one brood of 4 all fledged then led off to nursery area?.Anyway they have been around since feb and cleaned out the old nest (which had collected plastic streamers and a plant)...
Birdguides reported 2 sightings of Cranes today - one over Astley Green at 1159 moving from the S then circling, and one over Eccles at 1545 moving W then NW towards Winter Hill - no idea whose sighting this latter one is - please get in touch for a rarity form! Also John Butterworth had 7 Waxwings in tree...
the reed bunting was back again (male) in my garden along with,starlings house sparrows, greenfinches, great tits, robins, collard doves and coal tits jake
A reed bunting has been visiting my feeders every day this week. i have heard that they have been on the decline since the seventys is this true ? ? ? ?
Tony O'Mahony had a ring-tagged imm m Hen Harrier on Carrington Moss today, N of Dark Lane and Sinderland Green Woods, hunting over crop fields (probably f. 25 and 26). This bird had blue wing tags on both wings. I have contacted the relevant person for details! Tony also had a f LW Woodpecker in Dunham...
I know that the weather was beautiful today but even better was watching a pair of Peregrines soaring above Liverpool street in Salford at 12.25 pm while 6 Blackheaded Gulls spent 5 minutes mobbing them. It looked like the falcons were enjoying themselves as they chased the gulls around the sky but d...
just got to say what a cracking morning to be out and about ,spring has sprung i think 1 grey wagtail 6 moorhen 10 coot 1 gadwall 4 lapwing 2 shoveller 6 teal 1 wigeon 6 goosander 2 shelduck 2 redshank 4 oyste...
Wed 21st Mar a.m Buzzard soaring over Pendlebury Ln. Haigh Plants. also f. Mandarin on canal p.m Buzzard over Dicconson Ln. Blackrod Raven over Smithills Moor also pair of Stonechat & 6 Curlew
Im after some advice. On Sat im gonna visit some sites in the county, so far only managed Audenshaw, Etherow & Daisy Nook ( shame on me i know ) so i thought id spend some time exploring other places. With Audenshaw being 15 mins away im going to start early there and thought i would do pennington fla...
called in this morn at red seas and saw for a second time a f sparrowhawk take a lapwing and then proceeded to drown it to finish it off i saw it happen a couple of month back but never thought i would see it happen again the hawk which was in pristine condition because i was only 20yd away seems to have got into...
A Black-necked Grebe was at Pennington this morning atleast, apparently showing very close to Horrock's Hide. (info per. Ian Woosey and Barry Hulme) (quite right too Woosey, come on Cyprus )-- Edited by Ian McKerchar at 12:52, 2007-03-30
If anyone has been trying to get in touch (there'd better not have been a Black-billed Cuckoo at Chorlton Water Park!) and I've not answered/replied the reason is because I dropped my SIM card down a grid in Scotland. And no, it wasn't associated with Tennents lager, honest. Should be sorted on Tuesda...
In early February whilst watching about 30 or so Goldfinch feeding in my garden, I noticed one bird had an orange ring on one of it's legs, but not the expected metal BTO ring on the other. I investigated it's potential origins but found no colour ringing programs that fitted my sighting and left it at th...
Ken Haydock and Jill Mills had a very interesting Stonechat at Burnt Edge, Horwich on Sunday. They've sent a couple of photos which can't be uploaded just at present as Ian's computer is down. Essentially the bird (male) shows very large white wing patches and what appears to be a pure white rump - thou...
A good day in the county today with obvious movement of especially wildfowl, as follows: Audenshaw: as mentioned in Paul's earlier post, 2 Red-breasted Mergansers and of course not to mention the Rock Pipit. That the Mergansers flew off may become important (see Hollingworth Lake below). Holling...
Hi all 35 Twite on feeding stations, 4 Twite on Light Hazzles Edge. 1 pair Stonechat, 2 male Reed Bunting behind White House Pub. 3 Curlew, 2 Lapwing, 1 Golden Plover, 1 Ravenin area. 1 Peregrine on pylon by Cows Mouth Quarry - flew off NW in direction of Warland Village at 11.30am. Many many Mipits displ...
