I`ve just been browsing through the `Fat Birder` website and their link for birding in Greater Manchester. Apparently our `County Bird` is Whiskered Tern` ! Does anyone happen to know why this is and who chose it ?
I`ve not a clue what constitutes a `county bird` anyway but I would have thought a bett...
Peter Alker has today informed me that Horrock's Hide at Pennington Flash is to imminently have it's roof rebuilt, starting with the scaffolders on site today, which will of course mean the temporary closure of the hide. Peter will endevour to keep me updated with it's progress but it...
urban birding at its best.clippers quay to pomona docks most weekday morning,s feral pigeon,house sparrow,blackbird,long tailed and blue tit,dunnock,coot, moorhen,b h gull,lesser black b gull, mallard,pied & grey wagtail,cormorant, starlings,kingfisher,mute swan ,grey heron.woo...
Astley and Chat Moss 10/03 12.30 to 3 pm Watched 4 buzzards flying around Astley Moss causing panic for the many Lapwings in the fields. 1 Buzzard flying north over field 67 before the railway line on Rindle rd. 2 more flying west over field 59. Then 2 Buzzards displaying over field 52 besides 12 yards rd...
juv great northern diver was on no2 res this afternoon lots of goldeneye and an incorrectley i.d. pipet (was meadow sorry dave)go and have a look but wrap up cos it was a bit windy,god bless the regulars for keeping up the vigil cheers geoff
all the usual stuff , teal,gadwal,shovellers,4 little grebe,tufties,mallard,great crested grebe. horrocks hide looks nearly finished,3 oyster catchers on spit,sparrow hawk from new hide but got mobbed and chased off by crows and gulls.willow tit back at feading station and i counted 7pairs...
Seen by Barry Hulme from the New Hide, on the island to the left @ 07.30 However, not in view at 11.00 ( N.B. This message has been passed by the `Board of Censors`, i.e. Ian Mckerchar & Peter Alker. )
Are you receiving me Mr. Morton ? Hi Tom, This morning whilst on my way to Rumworth I was surprised to see a Grey Partridge on Aspull Village Green, literally feet away from the roadside, at 07.00. It was just opposite Aspull Primary School off Bolton Rd, near to where you live. I thought it unusual, but ...
Birdguides reports a possible Osprey NE over Stockport town centre today (15:30). Anybodies on the forum Wouldn't be a bad date and conditions for one passing over.
Sunday 26 February 2007 - 16.30 to 17.30 40+ Fieldfare (mobile flock with Starlings), Kingfisher, Little Owl, 100+ Black-headed Gull, 2 Great Crested Grebe, Cormorant, and other usual misc stuff. No sign of Redwing recently reported in the area - but might be that I missed them due to fading light....
Quick visit this morning sighted 6 pochard,7 swans,mallard,coot on the pond and one or two heinze 57.From the feeding station chaffinch,greenfinch,long,blue,great tits,robin,blackbird,dunnock,wood pigeon and the usual squirrels.
hi all, missed last week but made up with this weeks viewing smew red crested pochard shovler pink footed goose mute swan coot black swan moorhen heron canada goose wigeon 1 oyster catcher...
No I have not been taking hallucinogenic substances. There was very little else about today, but a plastic inflatable pig, drifted low over the plantations in the pouring rain! The first pair of Curlew arrived back Friday evening, 9 days earlier than last year. Perhaps the same birds, were also see...
can some one help me out i,ve looked in the collin,s and my big RSPB book and the picture of the continental in the gallery,and at quite a few on horrocks flash ,is the trick the red patch below the eye and the greying of head the difference between british and senisis thanks geoff
2 prs of Shelduck, 4 Wigeon (2 prs), 4 Redshank, pr Oystercatcher Lightshw Hall Flash; 2 f-type Goosander, Little Grebe and GC Grebe Dover Basin. Also a report of Treecreeper with nest material Haydock Golf Club woods (in GM, just)
i am going to send a email to the red rose forest who own copper lane/hurst wood. i am sending the e mail to them to ask for a hide to be built on the hurst wood, this is bcause there a lots of birders there every day all there is is a bench! so i think this would be a good decision if they do acept to build a small hid...
130 Goldeneyes on resv 1 at dusk tonight, counted twice by Hammy and me just to make sure we weren't going mad. Also: Great Northern Diver - juv showing very well on resv 3 Common Scoter - drk on resv 2 Little Gull - adult in roost on resv 2 Med Gull - 2w & adult
Things picking up here today, with perhaps 75+ Rook/Jackdaw nests; 3 displaying pairs of Great Crested Grebes plus a solitary 7th bird, pair of Mutes(unable to get the nos.) plus two more birds, one chased off by the agressive male; 2 Little Grebes; 2 Cormorants; Teal; Dipper; Great Spotted Woodpec...
There was an article in the Times last week which suggested that eight species of Gull had been reclassified as one by some august scientific body whose name I have forgotten - I should have kept the article. The species in question included Herring, Lesser-black Backed, Iceland, Glaucous, Glauco...
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Wouldn't be a bad date and conditions for one passing over.