Seen Saturday, 18th November, 2006.
1 Buzzard, 2 Goldcrests, 20+ Goldfinches, 3 Yellowhammers.
Male and female Stonechats south side of field, directly behind Shell Pool Reserve.
100+ Pinkfeet Geese seen flying west to east, south of C'ton Moss.
Manchester RSPB Local Group have a program of indoor events
On November 28th 7:30 - Susan and Allan Parker are giving a talk on "Birding Southern Florida"
St James Parish Church Hall
Gatley Green
Gatley
Note the hall is behind the church, reached from the side road. Please do not par...
This was posted on the Rossendale Bird Forum and I thought it might be of interest to others. Sorry for taking a while to do so.
Ashworth Moor Res and Cheesden 14:00-17:00 46 canada geese (34 of which flew off at 15:00, 25 flew in at 17:00) 7 mallard 3 wigeon 36 goosander 290 black headed gu...
Bittern - on Pearsons 08.00. at first perched in reeds at back of flash, then flew across water and into reedbed on canal side.
3 Pintail (1 drk) also on Pearsons briefly.
6 Wigeon on Scotmans
6+ Goldeneye
c30 Lesser Redpoll between Moss Bridge and Turners. also with these handfulls of Goldfi...
3 lesser redpoll with goldfinches in plantation, weasel peeping from stone wall near ruin, about 8 brambling feeding near higher slack brook, and a few redwing and fieldfare about. -- Edited by Ian McKerchar at 13:07, 2006-11-21
Today whilst at moses gate I noticed that one of the adult breeding swans on the back lake had got fishing line caught around its beak and was struggling to get it off. It needs someone to go up with a swan hook to help catch the bird and release the line. I hope there is someone out there that can organ...
Audenshaw reservoirs 07.20 -09.20
Tufted Duck approximately 68
Mute Swan 6
Goosander 6
Pochard 8
Coot 12
Golden Plover at least 130 flying over Sainsbury's
hi...this sighting is a bit late but better late than never..this is my first post here......we were driving down the M66 which had just about started...on Monday 24th October about 12.40pm when i notice a brownish-greyish bird fly across......i did nt pay attention to it at...
Birdguides reported a House Martin at Castleshaw Reservoirs this pm (just after dinnier-ish), a great record, anyone on the forum have any further info on this bird?
Approachable Pink-Footed Goose feeding with Canadas (1st winter I would say), I will post photograph when I can get my PC working properly think I have a virus.
Also a disappointingly low Mute swan count of 61.
At Watergrove Resr. this morning Steve Atkins had a Chiffchaff showing characteristics of the race 'tristis', including the rather distinctive call (I only say 'showing characteristics' due to the potential difficulty in identifying 'pure' tristis, off Steve description it sounded spot on!)...
2 adult Yellow-legged Gulls in the roost, also 332 Lesser Black-backeds, 1 Great Black-backed and 8 Herring Gulls (didn't count the Commons or BHG's).
Also 3 Shoveler, 1 Wigeon, 3 Pochard, c50 Goldeneye and a Redshank.
On David Winnard`s Website, `Wildlife Of Rochdale`, a Red breasted Merganser is on the sightings page for 5 Nov. at Hollingworth Lake. Did anyone catch this or has anyone any info ? Is it still there ?
-- Edited by Ian Woosey at 07:43, 2006-11-08
An early morning visit to Piethorne today was rewarded with excellent close-up sightings of a immature Little Grebe on Ogden Reservoir. This is only the 3rd record for this species in the valley in the last 4 years and apparently only the 4th record here since 1996!
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The Shag was still at the lake this morning, although it now seems to have deserted the raft and prefers to rest up on one of the speed boats moored off the duck feeding area. The speed boat is now liberally splattered with Shag droppings! Just to confuse matters a lone Cormorant was on the raft. A R...
4 Whoopers – 2 Adults, 2 Juvs - flying low over Crab Tree Lane, Atherton at around 7.30am - Possibly heading for Bee Fold Lane Pond or Pennington Flash. ???
Quick visit to Crompton Lodges this am produced - 1 LBB Gull, 1 female Shoveler, 64 mute swan Inc 2 cygnets and a few goosanders. Also I manage to read the metal ring of a Finnish Black Headed Gull - Details sent to the BTO.
Kane
Moss lane area today held a male stonechat, juv merlin and plenty of winter thrushes, skylarks, mipits, finches and buntings (all being harried by the merlin)
Hope Carr was very quiet (it has been for about 2 years!!) a few goldcrests, thrushes and half a dozen or so snipe being the highlights.&nbs...
-- Edited by Ian Woosey at 07:43, 2006-11-08