Just seen this on Twitter - @OrniStats is a new account that says Welcome to OrniStats, the new project dedicated to analysis of British and Irish vagrant birds! With a website in the pipeline that will (hopefully) be live by the end of the year, in the meantime this account will provide stats and facts...
Walking the dog at 7-30 this morning, I fortuotously took the bins with me and was immidiately rewarded with a female greater spotted woodpecker knocking away at a dead branch. Thre was also a nuthatch calling close by but unobserved. Further up the lane were numerus chaffinch, robins and wrens. The...
We have just taken in for commission sale a really desirable piece of equipment. It is a nearly new, hardly used, Swarovski ATS65 Scope with the 25-50x Zoom Eyepiece and a Swarovski Stay-on Case. This is boxed and in excellent condition and is around 1 year old. The seller is asking ONLY £1800 for this k...
I had a trip to Buxton and cycled all the way to bakewell and back. I feel shattered but seen some very interesting things both on the old railway route and around Buxton. Highlights includes; buzzard, kestrel, 2 sparrowhawks, redstart, a dozen spotted flycatchers totalling 3 families together fee...
A pair of Bee-eaters have bred at an undisclosed site in Greater Manchester but unfortunately today, it appears the birds have abandoned and departed the area, possibly due to predation or some form of internal collapse of the nest burrow. The birds first appeared in mid-June and quickly began bre...
Full set of 50 in frame. Godfrey Philips. Circa 1930s. Look nice in a study, obviously something that will never be done again. £ 40 ono. Buyer to collect from Barton near to Garstang. Call on 07539 839015. -- Edited by Ivan Ellison on Friday 14th of July 2023 04:19:37 PM
We have just taken in, on commission, a really clean, nice pair of 10x42 Vortex Viper HD Bins. These are boxed with all accessories and are in excellent condition. They are approximately 6 years ols and have a limited lifetime warranty which will pass to the enw owner. The seller is asking ONLY £325 for...
We have just taken in a lovely pair of top-end bins. They are the Swarovski 8.5x42 EL FieldPro model and are in excellent condition. They are boxed and come complete with all accessories and are only 2.5yrs old, so still have 7.5yrs of Warranty left. They are on sale for ONLY £1249 which is a fantastic sa...
We have on commission sale an Opticron MM4 50 angled scope with the SDL v.3 eyepiece. These are boxed and in mint condition having only been used once in the field. This means that they will have nearly the full 30 year warranty remaining on them which will automatically transfer to the new owner. These...
We have on commission sale a pair of 12x50 Vortex Diamondback binoculars. These are in excellent condition and have all accessories including the carry case, but have no box. They are only 1 year old and the seller is asking ONLY £170for these. They are listed on our website at the link below: https://...
We have just taken in today a pair of 10x42 Zeiss Conquest T* Binoculars on commission sale. These are in excellent condition and come complete with box, carry case, neck strap and rainguard. They are the original Conquests that were made in Hungary and had a lifetime guarantee when sold. They are bei...
We have a very clean pair of Zeiss 8x42 FL bins for sale in our pre-loved section. These are back from a full refurbishment from Zeiss and have not even seen the light of day since their return. They come with all accessories and are on sale at ONLY £799 which is even less than a pair currently on eBay in infe...
Hi , Im asking you to please sign this petition, it aims to encourage the government to make it mandatory to fit Swiftbricks into all new build buildings , where practical. I dont need to remind you that species like the Swift that rely on walls and roof spaces for nest sites have seen their numbers crash...
A complete set of The Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic (or BWP to you and me!!) £150 Good condition, just very insignificant ageing to dust jackets. Happy for them to be viewed first if wanted. -- Edited by dave broome on Saturday 31st...
We have a pair of 10x42 Nikon Monarch 7 Binoculars on commission sale. These are only 2 years old and have only been used a handful of times. They are in excellent condition and are boxed and have all the accessories with them. The seller is asking a really low price of ONLY £325for these. The photos of it a...
We have just taken in on commission a pair of Swarovski 8.5x42 EL Swarovision Binoculars. They come with a case, srap and rainguard and optically are great. The seller is asking ONLY £999https://www.focalpointopticsltd.com/product-page/pre-loved-sw...
We have in stock a USED Opticron MM3 60 ED angled scope with a SDL v.2 Zoom Eyepiece on sale. This is the earlier version of the current MM4 60, being an ED scope rather than non-ED as all the MM3 scopes are currently. The scope is fine optically but has a few minor marks on some of the rubber surfaces. It come...
Having just sold one of these we have taken another one in on commission to take its place.. It is a Leica APO Televid 82mm Scope with a 25-50x Zoom Eyepiece, but is not boxed. It has recently returned from Leica after a full overhaul and has not been used since. This is a real bargain at ONLY £1300 and will n...
We have jst put on commission a really nice Leica APO82 Scope with a 25-50x Zoom eyepiece and a Leica stay-on case. This has just returned from Leica after a full refurbishment and service and has not seen the light of day since it's return and so is in mint condition. The seller is asking ONLY £1950 for th...
We have on commission sale a pair of Leica 10x42 Ultravid HD Binoculars. These come with the carry case, the strap, rainguard and objective covers. They are fine optically and are a sought after model. The black rubber armouring does show some signs of use. The seller is asking ONLY £900 for these opti...
I am 76 years old and started taking an interest in birds at the age of 7. I lived just outside Broadbottom for the first 31 years of my life. Then in a more urban environment in Hyde and for the past 30+ years on the edge of Hyde close to a green belt which will shortly be built on. In the past 60 years I have seen...
Originally posted today by Fred Ford: This dry weather is adversely affecting crows .Two days ago i found a juvenile jackdaw , in the garden , very weak , very thin. I have managed to feed and water him and he seems to be recovering , pottering around picking up insects .This morning i discovered a carrio...
Members may have noticed that the price quoted for USED equipment on the Manchester Birding Forum is £20 less than that on our website in all the links posted within the listings on here. This is because the web price now includes a P&P element of £20 which allows us to sell on behalf of the customer t...
Members may have noticed that the price quoted for USED equipment on the Manchester Birding Forum is £20 less than that on our website in all the links posted within the listings on here. This is because the web price now includes a P&P element of £20 which allows us to sell on behalf of the customer t...
Members may have noticed that the price quoted for USED equipment on the Manchester Birding Forum is £20 less than that on our website in all the links posted within the listings on here. This is because the web price now includes a P&P element of £20 which allows us to sell on behalf of the customer t...
Not here with birding in mind and do not have optics with us. This afternoon we were sitting in the Piazza Di San Lorenzo gorging on tiramasu flavoured ice creams when a fine male Italian Sparrow landed very close by, and it struck me that I had never before seen one. On the ebird system it is split as Passe...
We have just taken in on commission a pair of Leica 10x50BA Trinovid Binoculars. These are the old style with the ribbed armouring but their optics still stand up to todays standards. They are in good condition and come complete with strap, rainguard and case as well as a lifetime warranty. The custom...
-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Tuesday 20th of March 2012 08:52:25 AM