As For all those that love to get close to the ground for their pictures this is a real neck saver. Believe me it really works. Only selling as I have upgraded my kit and and new camera has flip screen and evf so this doesn't fit. Excellent condition with canon pouch and both eyepiece adapters. Going for a...
Hello everybody. My first obs post - the first of many I hope. Just back from a stroll in the woods at the Highfield edge of Winstanley Country Park. Just the usual suspects 5 Magpies fighting over a new nest Carrion Crow 2 Jays Chiffchaff 2 Robins Wren Mistle Thrush 2 Dunnock Great Tit Blue Tit Chaffinch...
Originally posted by Steven Heywood for 6th August: A bat gleaning insects from the tops of the small trees by the Newcroft Road entrance path was a surprise. By a process of elimination I'm pretty sure it was a whiskered bat. Sadly for me but probably for the best for itself it didn't linger and soon dis...
I went to audenshaw reservoir today but found the fences had all been put back up, a dog walker mentioned that birders can get a key to gain access(audenshaw side). dose any one know where such a key might be obtained from. thanks
First time visit for me to this excellent Cumbria Wildlife Trust reserve to see the breeding Ospreys. The young are now fully able to fly and so the family of 2 adults and 3 young are ranging widely. The nest can be seen in the distance from the viewing area. 1 youngster flew in and settled down on the nest....
Young hedgehog crossing road at Acacia Crescent 9.00 this morning bus driver stopping traffic so we could save it from being run over . Placed into a nearby garden for safety good luck pal -- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Friday 24th of June 2022 04:38:55 PM
The Roy Dennis Foundation has tweeted the route taken today by a satellite-tagged White-Tailed Eagle, which passed through GM. Difficult to zoom in to the map, but seems to have gone west to east somewhere near Ashton-in-Makerfield, passing Pennington Flash, veering north somewhere near Hope Ca...
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Very dull and overcast day making visibility poor to say the least.
On arrival great close up views of redpol,tree sparrows,willow tit plus all the usual tits and goldfinches on the feeders around the visiter centre.All the usual ducks present with a few hundred lapwings and at least 10 g...
2 meadow pipit, tree sparrow, 2 mistle thrush, 20 redwing, 50+ starling,1 lesser black backed gull, common gull, robin, blackbird, great and blue tits, goldfinch, coot, moorhen, mallard. -- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Tuesday 4th of February 2014 11:32:48 AM
Visited this site for the first time yesterday with Mike R and Ian.
Superb site, Turtle Dove calling, lots of Crossbill, 3 - 5 Common Buzzard but the jewel, two Honey Buzzard displaying for about 1- 15 minutes, with plenty of wing-clapping.
Then on to Bempton for the usual sea-birds at point blank...
18th March.
1 Chiffchaff. Foraging silently in the trees with a small number of tits and a Goldcrest.
Also - 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming and c15 Goldfinch feeding on larch cones.
Cheers,
Bill.
Two weeks staying in the orca Praia Hotel, West Funchal, Madeira 02/12/16 - 16/12/16. 28 species in all. The endemic species and sub-species count was good but the sea was very quiet due to the time of year so only one pelagic species seen. I used the Helm guide to the Atlantic Islands which proved very u...
Did a week on The Azores mid Sept,main purpose of the trip was to see Sperm Whales,a species I've not really seen well before.With flights from M/c with Ryanair to Sao Miguel at only £49.99 each way the trip was a no brainer.Sao Miguel is the most easterly of the island group and therefore is not likely to...
Nice walk this morning. Loads of Lapwings, two Curlew on the ground, and 4 or so flying at various places over the hills and Lantern Pike
Meadow Pipits, Linnets,Chaffinch
I'm having a clear out of old magazines. The following are available free of charge. Let me know if you are interested and we can arrange collection Birdwatch Magazine:the first 138 issues 1992-2003Bird Watching Magazine: March 1986-2001Birding World 1987- 2011 up to 2000 are in bindersBriti...
Managed to bird on and off in Central Park in my first trip to the city which never sleeps. .... so so so intense, like Pennington Flash in overdrive. I still haven't got too much into my files etc as I need to cross-reference what I saw, but definitely Blue Jays and American Robins everywhere, White-Cro...
On a cycle from Highfield to Orrell res yesterday evening: 3 pheasant (2m 1f) 1 Buzzard swooping in Winstanley Park and making a successful kill - although didn't have my bins to see what it caught. 2 Swallow 1 Chaffinch m 4 Mistle Thrush 1 possible Lapwing, which came over the hedge at Billinge Garden C...
13.00-14.30 Very Quiet on here today 1 Wren 1 Comorant flew over east 2 Jay 1 Blackbird 3 Great Tit 1 Kestrel 1 Long-Tailed Tit 8 House Sparrow 2 Tree Sparrow
Apologies if this place has been covered in the general Mosses thread - do move it if so. I had my first walk around this Forestry Commision site today, very pleasant. 32 species including Willow Tit, 2 singing Coal Tit, 20 Redwing, 150 vocal Starling between wood and sheep pasture, min 5 Buzzard in vic...
17th April 6.45am - 9.30am Usual stuff. Of interest were: Plex Moss - Station Road 10 whimbrel (with curlew in usual field near junction with Plex Moss Lane) rt hen harrier (attempted to catch a partridge - either missed or failed to hold, too far away to tell) Downholland Moss - Moss Lane 2 ravens (one l...
Can Anyone Help Me ? Next weekend Im visiting Maidstone for a birthday party and Im thinking ideal opportunity for a spot of birding. Trouble is I dont know where to go.I could play safe and visit an RSPB site but I just wondered if anyone out there knows of a site I really should not miss out on. Any advice g...
Recently, two men were seen acting suspiciously at a site where there are breeding Long-eared Owls in Greater Manchester. They entered private woodland and started visibly looking for nests, before also looking on the ground for pellets. They left quickly when approached. The two men were accom...
As mentioned on a previously posted North American trip report, I've long had a fascination with New World Warblers. I've been fortunate to see a few species in the UK, but in the end, I decided to go across the pond and start finding them for myself.During the late 1990s I was working on a large IT projec...
13.30-15.00 10 Great Crested Grebes, 42 Canada Geese, 4 Greylag Geese, 6 Tufted Ducks and 1m Pochard on the water. Whilst in the adjoining woods and hedges, 2 Mistle Thrushes, 2 Buzzards, 12 Redwings, 5 Fieldfares and 1 Jay. At one point 8 noisy Great Tits chased each other around the waterside willow...
