10/4/10 AM Ring Ouzel - at least 5, possibly 6 birds between Middle Bank and Lees Hill this am. Brambling - 7 by Hollingworth Hall Farm. -- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Friday 6th of April 2012 02:21:31 PM
A couple of days spent staying with the parents in Morpeth resulted in some good sightings.
Saturday - Bakethin Nature Reserve at Kielder
Crossbill
Tufted duck
Teal
Goldeneye
Cormorant
Mallard
Little Grebe
Redwing
Chaffinch
Robin
Greenfinch
Coal Tit
Nuthatch
GS Woodpecker
S...
1 male wheatear, 1 stonechat and a single mipit up at the mine this afternoon. Also 3 raven flybys and 3 snipe. No sign of ring ouzel reported earlier.
Phil
236 Black Headed Gulls on Atherton Park playing fields + 4 Common Gulls. 1 Buzzard - Beefold Lane, 1 Kingfisher on Beefold Pond + 1 on Millers Lane. 8 Grey partridge in field on Millers Lane. Good numbers of Redwing flying over last night. Kane
Thought I'd start a site report thread for one of my local patches, and today is as good a day as any because after nearly twenty years of trying up here, I found my first RING OUZEL. A superb male, it was up by the road to Rowarth on the south side just after the bridleway track, but soon did a vanishing act. A...
A successful trip in the end for myself and Alex Jones this afternoon at Broom Wood, Tiln, Nottinghamshire for the reported Melodious Warbler. The windy weather meant that although the bird was constantly singing, it was keeping very low in the pine plantation. Finally after 3 hours, our persevera...
On Sunday I visited the Wirral for a spot of birding.
Called in at Crosby early am - a lone adult Bar-tailed Godwit was the best find, plenty of Dunlin.
Driving down the M53 mid morning there were 10 Buzzards in the air together, 1m up road of J4. A Hobby was with them briefly. Buzzard 11 was on a fence po...
Thought I'd start a separate thread for this area, as it is apart from Gorse Hall and is almost at the point where Hyde, Dukinfield and Stalybridge meet. At Broadbent Fold Farm there were 25 Linnet feeding around the horse paddocks, with another near the summit of Hough Hill. My hifhest ever count here...
14/5/07 late afternoon
Spotted Flycatcher along Longworth Lane, by Dunscar Golf Club, Bolton. (whilst looking for Wood Warbler, of which neither sight nor sound - but I could have been in the wrong area ? )
While doing R/O/W Inspections Today Hesketh Meadow Rd 2 Willow Tits 4 Whitethroat at least 2 was feeding young Elliott Ave Golborne Nesting House Martins Ashton Rd nr disused railway nr pond 1 Grey Heron 2 Whitethroat 1 Blackcap 1 Moorhen Nook Lane Footpath to Bridge St 10+Greenfinch looked to be 2 Fa...
The Wild Daffodils are now at their peak and make a great sight once you go through the 2nd gate from the car park towards the War Memorial. They have been there for donkeys years but I feel they were probably planted originally. Are there any other sites in Gtr Mcr? Unfortunately a few of the garden varie...
We had a trip out to the new rspb reserve at Hesketh Outer Marsh today had a guided walk with the warden Graham Clarkson Not many species of birds seen but it was at low tide and will be a lot better at high tide Birds seen Peregrine, over 1000 Pink feet who must have got sick of the Helicopter coming off Warto...
A red letter day today.
A Great White Egret flew through north at approx 1.30. Probably the bird that seems to have vacated Holmes Chapel this morning (info thanks to Geoff Lightfoot).
I was searching the area at approx 3.00 when another text arrived from Geoff to say was watching a Little Egret in...
On River Tame this morning:-
6 Goosander including 5 drakes between Dukinfield and Stalybridge
pr G S Woodpeckers in valley
pr Dipper Bayley Street, Stalybridge near tip from small bridge
5+ Heron on river between Dukinfield and Stalybridge
Pm towards Ashton
7 Goosander including 4 drak...
Very strong possible sighting in Canal Street of a female Black Redstart today at 2 o'clock at the End by the courts. Flew off down the Canal. -- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Monday 22nd of June 2009 12:55:08 PM-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Saturday 15th of May 2010 09:00:09 AM
Rubbish weather, fog all morning, could hardly see the water. Afternoon not much better, but lifted slightly, and we were luck to see a Great Northern Diver fairly close from the Sheepwash Hide.
Arriving in South Gloucestershire in glorious sunshine this morning at 08.30 John Barber and I were soon having excellent, close up views of the Red-flanked Bluetail. The bird is in the Shire Valley which is about 2 miles north of Marshfield and about 100yds beyond the houses at Shirehill Fa...
8/6/26 This being the farmland East of Billinge, and South of Newton Rd down to the fields just before Carr Mill Dam, with the draw being the Masons Arms at Chadwick Green.. 6 Grey Partridge. 14+ Yellowhammers. 2 Oystercatchers. 1 Common Tern. 4 Buzzards. 3 Kestrels. Linnets & Lapwings. -- E...
I visited this wood, just east of Kelsall, a couple of months ago when there wasn't too much about. It looked quite interesting, so I thought I would give it another go. Mixed woodland, albeit mainly coniferous, with farmland surrounding it. Delamere Forest is a couple of miles to the north. Amongst o...
