I've had a look through and unable to see any posts from the Trans Penine Trail so thought I'd start one as I'm down there a fair bit walking the dog whilst birding. Today I dropped in on the Black Moss Covert NR adjacent to the TPT in Broadheath. Seen were the following 7 Common Woodpigeon (White-necked...
Visited 7 Acre Country Park in Breightmet Bolton. Just to confuse things its actually 15 acres. It consists of the large Bradshaw Brook running through the whole park, sycamore woods, open grass land and former mill lodges and leats.
Seen Dipper
2 Kingfisher
Moorhen
Mallard
ChiffChaff seve...
Originally posted today by Martin Loftus (images also by Martin):16 Snow Buntings on the north side of Bull hill at 10;30am and seen again at 11;30am this morning.Very flighty and difficult to locate in the snow and in the vastness of the moors..
Leigh Ornithological Society published a book in 1992 called "From Winter Hill to Yellowhammer Lane". Where is Yellowhammer Lane? A Google search returns nothing that looks right and I can't find it on any map I own.
Good morning in garden Surprise visitor Grey Wagtail Greenfinch Male and Female Great Spotted Woodpeckers Starling Blue Tit Great Tit Long Tailed Tit. Male Blackcap Goldfinch Chaffinch Wood Pigeon House Sparrow Dunnock Robin Blackbird -- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Friday 12th of February 2021 1...
Does anyone know /has anyone seen any literature on interspecific competition between Owls, specifically Barn and Long-eared, and specifically about competition with foraging habitat. A google search has so far proven negative. Really interested if anyone knows about anything. Cheers
Hi All There is a canada goose resident on the lake at Lakeside (just off Manchester road near Goshen fields) which has an odd looking yellow "ring". It is actually a spiral of what looks to be yellow plastic, similar to the coiled flex you get on a phone handset. To me it looks too thin to be electric flex,...
With ref to Richard Thews sighting at Elton Res. Hi Richard, Ive seen a couple of pinkish toned Black-headed Gulls before now, one at Sale WP and one at Redgate Recycling but neither quite as pink as this one. I didnt think much of it when I saw the first one and I merely put it down to feather staining from f...
My bubble garden in Urmston (I live in a mid terrace in Altrincham with a teeny tiny backyard). Large lawn area with two magnolia trees and quite a few good bushes and trees surrounding. 1 x female chaffinch who is getting rather bold. She was trying to hold her own with the regular blackbirds that visi...
We have a resident Grey Wagtail round our pond the last few weeks , who would have thought that in Central Warrington 20 years ago Here a picture of it on our Frozen pond -- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Friday 15th of January 2021 07:19:30 PM
Objections can still be sent in for the proposed motorway Service station ,that will devastate the Eastern arable area at Silver Lane pools . The Service station which in reality is pretty pointless as there is already one a few miles west at Birchwood, would devastate a great greenbelt , farmland ar...
After a twelve month hiatus have relocated to Failsworth this is my new patch been watching for about two months putting feed in some locations so.. on fields Warick Rd woodpigeon 40+ magpie 20+ blue tit,great tit robin dunnock song thrush blackbird goldfinch at failsworth powerstation at least 1 c...
Popular haunt for the local Mute Swans, currently has the only bit of open water on the canal for some distance;
18 Mutes with Canada's, Mallard, Coot, BH Gull, Common Gull, 8 Tufties, 1 feral goose, 1 Muscovey and half a dozen duck of dubious ancestry !
Beech Hill 4.20 - 4.30
Just got home to approx 1000 Gulls going over the house heading south they looked to be coming from worthington and could have been headed to the flashes i could have missed a lot more as i dont know how they had been passing through looed to be mainly Herring and L b b Gulls sized bird...
Whilst trying to fill in a few gaps for the Atlas for SD91P as we're now in it's last week (much to the relief of my wife!) I was exploring the hillside at the end of Calderbrook Rd (just past the area where it is closed off) and was surprised to find a juv Spotted Flycatcher sunning itself and making the odd f...
The Neotropical Bird Club has made volumes 1-11 of Neotropical Birding (2006 onwards) available as free pdf files. Neotropical Birding Vol 1-9 [url=http://www.neotropicalbirdclub.org...
Hi Saturday 9th of January (early doors) saw me having a stroll around Etherow Country Park - I hope this is a useful review All the usual suspects were present On the pools Large numbers of Black-headed Gulls Large numbers of Canada Geese 10 or so Greylag Geese Coot - numerous Moorhens - numero...
Waited in hope of new arrival and Male Blackcap turned up today. Also.Female Great Spotted Woodpecker.Dunnocks.Robin.Blue Tit.Great Tit.Coal Tit.Long Tailed Tit.Blackbirds.Woodpigeon.Starlings.Chaffinches. -- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Tuesday 19th of January 2021 10:53:27 AM
Heavy duty tripod/monopod head Suitable for large telephoto lens or spotting scopes. £65 -- Edited by Charlie Garrity on Tuesday 19th of January 2021 04:06:19 PM
From tomorrow (14th Jan 2021) Focalpoint is sad to say that we have to suspend our Click & Collect service that we had been running during Tier 4 and Lockdown periods. Scotland today announced a suspension of Click & Collect for non-essential retail outlets and the feeling is that this will a...
Ian - Hope this is OK to post here! I have been made aware of an opportunity for people to get involved in a project called Bringing the Irk to Life. The project is hoping to improve the whole of the River irk Catchmnet and wants to engage with people who work and play in the catchment. The link below takes yo...
This week the whole country entered a full COVID Lockdown scenario and so Focalpoint did not re-open as planned on Jan 4th 2021. As a non-essential business we canremain available for mail order. The phone will be manned too during our normal working hours Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm and all calls will go thro...
With the recently imposed new winter 2021 covid lockdown and the once again tightened restrictions seemingly lasting until at least mid-February, it seemed pertinent to start a new garden lockdown blog thread for all users (from any county) to join and contrite to as they see fit or indeed as their n...
All the usual suspects were present On the pools Large numbers of Black-headed Gulls Large numbers of Canada Geese 10 or so Greylag Geese Coot - numerous Moorhens - numero... 