Had a couple of hours at Wigg Island today in seach of Cettis Warbler and despite hearing the calls I was unable to pin the rascals down. Still a pleasant afternoon with Merlin and Buzzard on the marsh and loads of gulls on the mud when the tide receded - some of them looked huge - a good place for the "g...
Huge Site Accessed it via Wharton Lane and concentrated on the area at the end that has changed considerably from even Google Earth looks like a bomb has gone off with acres of bare grounds small pool and a few ditches and older mounds. Main sighting Red White and Alsike Clover, Amphibious Bistort, Sne...
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...
The other day I was looking through my collection of bird books and found the first bird book I owned, yes it was the Observers book of Birds. The plates are not up to todays standard but they hold that somthing special, may be as a young lad they burned the feeling of wonder and mystery of the wild into me. T...
first stop public hide watched a male marsh harrier flyover towards lilians aprox 11.30am.great black backed gull with 3 chicks directly infront of hide.also aprox 200 coot,20 gadwal,2 pochard. lower hide watching female red deer at waters edge munching on grass also,family of reed bunting and r...
Heavily out-numbered by dog walkers but saw:
Stock Dove (9, some singing)
Jackdaws prospecting nest holes
Treecreeper 1
Nuthatch 3
Grey Heron 1 on river
Dipper 1 on river
Buzzard 1 overhead
Plus the commoner stuff.
Cheers, John
While cycling up Newton Lane today at about 10am a Red Kite was circling above the East Lancashire Road at the cross over point. It remained in this area for about 5 minutes before heading south east. Noticed it had a scruffy forked tail. After the surprise of seeing it I tried to video it on my phone but me...
Sunday 7th August 10.00-12.00 Large numbers of the more common ducks and geese. Mallards Coots Mute Swans Canadian Geese Tufted Ducks Lots of juvenile Black Headed Gulls 1 Greylag Goose 2 Grey Heron 3 Great Crested Grebes (2 Juveniles) 1 Grey Wagtail 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker 3 Nuthatch Sacred Ibi...
Tuesday 13th September 7.00-7.45pm Having missed the Grey Phalarope at Pennington recently I followed up the reports on Birdnet of one south of Chelford, at Acre Nook Sand Quary on Lapwing Lane. Sadly I couldn't locate it due to fast fading light, although a birder I walked past did inform me that it w...
In March 2016 I asked the question does anyone know anything about John Maclair Boraston, a bird book author from Stretford. Wrote Nature's Tones and Undertones 1921. Wrote about birds around Stetford and beyond. Well, if anyone is still interested I have found out. The 1911 census gives him as Buye...
Sunday 30 Oct pm with Tony Darby A splendid Giant Puffball visible through a hedge in a field on the way to the East Bay to twitch the Red-crested Pochard. It was literally bigger than a football! -- Edited by Tim Wilcox on Tuesday 1st of November 2011 01:43:02 PM
posted today by Steven Heywood: Just a general observation and query. Has anyone else found this past month spectacularly quiet of birds? Even taking into account the small birds going into ninja mode for the post-breeding moult and the effects of the advice not to put bird food out in our gardens thi...
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...
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...
fairbrother st, 7.30am 12 mallard 4 cormorant 4 coot 1 mute swan 1 little grebe 1 sparrowhawk 1 kingfisher 2 blckbird 2 wren 2 swallow the sparrow hawk didn,t see the kingfisher,i,m pretty sure the kingfisher is a resident somewhere between clippers quay and harry ramsdens,hopfully there are more t...
24/02/2011 - Myself and Sid Ashton finally caught up with the long-staying Oriental Turtle Dove today in Chipping Norton. It was still present in the area of 'The Leys' and eventually gave itself up to us properly in the back hedge of house number 41. No access to that house today but the view fr...
Fogg (Poise) Brook - Jim Fearnley Bridge - Otterspool Bridge
A designated Local Nature Reserve now but nothing has changed apart from new signage.
Corvids - many
Finches - few (inc 1f Bullfinch)
Thrushes - few (inc 2 Song & 1 Mistle Thrush)
A general lack of small birds.
On the river :
He...
2/5/09 early am
HOBBY - 1 showed well at 7.15am by the river from Welkin road before belting off low east.
Also
1 singing Garden Warbler
3 singing Blackcaps
3 singing Chiffchaffs
Stock Dove
Dipper
Goosander
Some signs of movement today - 220+ Pinkfeet flew southeast at 08:55 and then 3 Whooper Swans flew east at 10:00 (going the wrong way for Martin Mere). Also a Kingfisher showing well on the reserve, 40 + Siskins around the Ealees car park and one, possibly two, Treecreepers (a rare bird here!) Simon Hit...
A Rock Pipit at Blackstone Edge Res'r this morning on the rocky shoreline by Turvin Rd. It showed some characteristics of 'littoralis'. Also a Stonechat here. Simon Hitchen -- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Sunday 8th of August 2010 12:24:35 PM
A female Wheatear in the fields here this afternoon as I walked along the footpaths, north of the M62, and along Old Alder Lane to Causey Bridges. Also seen on a cold and windy day - Lapwing 4 Skylark 1 Meadow Pipit 4 Wood Pigeon 20+ Buzzard 1 Goldfinch 2 Mistle Thrush 1 Starling 6 Collared Dove 2 Mallard 2 H...
The county of Greater Manchester is divided into ten boroughs, each with varying degrees of prime birding habitat. Keeping a borough list is ideal for those birders not wishing to travel too far around the county and instead focus their attention on birding in their more immediate vicinity.Lists c...
The little Black bird book a staple as youngster and his other books and wildlife Series . I'm sure he will be missed by the birding community from the 70s And 80s . And not forgetting ecky thump lol RIP Bill Oddie
