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...
mist rising from horrocks and red headed smew diving for food in left hand corner with my back to canal,surprised to see it still here.Nothing unusual this morning but watched a great spotted woodpecker sunning itself at the top of a tree just past Bryn Marsh.Several chiff chaff having a good scrap p...
40+ geese (species unknown although Pf the most likely I supose) flying over my house (little Lever) heading north west towards the west side of Winter Hill. Flew from the south east Did anybody else see them?
great walk around hill at 9.00am on a sunny day spotted a willow,coal,blue,great and long tailed tit.chaffinch,goldfinch,greenfinch and a year tick for me was a pair of yellow hammer.two ravens,6 jays ,great spotted woodpecker,chiff chaff,magpie,reed bunting.highlight was watching a sto...
Just been to Rumworth saw what i think where 2 Yellow legged Gulls. They looked like Herring Gulls but with bright yellow legs. Oystercatchers displaying 1 sitting on nest. 1 redshank 20 cormorant 2 little grebe 2 goldeneye great crested grebes displaying.
Hi all 16 Twite in the area - picking them up by call all over the place now. 1 Wheatear below Cows Mouth Quarry + a rabbit ( first mammal I`ve ever seen up here) 6 Canada Geese, 1 male Goldeneye and 1 Curlew on Warland Res. 1 Curlew on Chelburn Moor. Big Moorland fire over the last couple of days - basically a...
Female Common Scoter at Sale Water Park this morning; It may not stay long once the disturbance from the boats start. also LRP, Wheater, Kingfisher, Snipe, Teal on Broad Ees Dole, still no Willow Warblers. -- Edited by Jeff Clarke at 08:32, 2007-04-06
On the excel county recoring sheet do you use the same sheet for the whole year? and also at the end of the year when it is finished do you send it to you by post ? thanks jake
Heard and briefly saw a Greenwoodpecker. Picked it up calling on my allotment at Moss Lea and chased it all the way up through Smithalls wood to Smithalls Farm before it stopped calling and I lost it.
