As a pharmacist in one the busiest pharmacies in Ashton, I am not exactly confined to barracks at the moment. My wife however, is on her own when I am at work, so my days off tend, at the moment, to be concerned with keeping her company, therefore time in the garden will be very much at a premium. A medium siz...
Although Im fairley new to the bird scean ,I read that House Sparrows are in decline.
I have a group of 35+ visit my garden every day,
Do any one else have a bigger flock,or have had and seen a decline.
As I want to protect this flock what is the best way of going about it,I feed them every day and dont want t...
A flock of 30+ cormorant where heading inland ( fish beware ) also 5 yellowhammer , 4 reeed bunting , skylark singing in several areas , 20+ lapwing , 2 oystercatcher , 3 partridge ( not sure what species , a rare sight on the moss these days) 3 buzzard , 3 kestrels , 5 stock dove , 100+ woodpigeon .
I have for some years neglected watching the birds in my garden, at least partly because of the progressive removal of trees by my neighbours and the subsequent reduction in birds recorded here. In years gone by I used to spend many hours watching the birds both in my garden, and also those flying over....
Started a 12 week Isolation on Thursday after receiving a Letter meaning I can't go to work till June so been able to do some garden watching in a Small Garden next to a Street. Good activity with a couple of surprises. 1 Rook which looks like a 1st Year Bird record shot attached taken through the Kitchen W...
Been looking out for them for days and finally yesterday evening 2 House Martins turned up over the garden. Thought I'd possibly seen one earlier in the day flying from above the bedroom window where they nest each year, but it disappeared too quickly.
A quick walk around tonight produced the following:
Pheasant
Blackbird
Song Thrush
Blue tit
Great Tit
Long Tailed Tit
Mallard
Canada Goose
Moorhen
Dipper - Whizzed past on the river
Wren
Dunnock
Woodpigion
Crow
Magpie
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Just had a Raven go over my house in Whitefield cronking. Not the best garden for bird watching here and list this week is only 24. However yesterday 4 Jays flew over, Green Woodpecker could be heard yaffling from Springwater park way. Meadow pipits have passed over yesterday and today and had visits f...
Small rear garden North West facing on to other houses in the estate with wooden fencing on all sides. Common garden birds attracted to neighbours bird feeders but never anything unusual. Front of house faces grass embankment across the road with line of tall trees behind Chaddock Lane trading esta...
The bird food and the sunflower hearts being thrown onto the backyard lean-to have yielded only Wood Pigeons, and Magpies. The peanut bag and the fat container on the backyard washing line have yielded only a single visit by a pair of blue tits. Now it looks as if these latter will go mouldy before they g...
Does anyone know how to fix binoculars? The left lens doesn't focus. They must have had a knock at some point and something has come loose or something. Any help would be really appreciated.
plenty about this afternoon, lots of birds pairing up
1st chiff chaff of the year as well as several others calling all over drinkwater.
also goldfinch, greenfinch, chaffinch, pair of bullfinch
sparrowhawk, kestrel
blue tit, great tit, long tailed tit
robin, wren, pair of grey wagtail
blac...
Today, for the first time ever,I observed a nuthatch gathering mud, which he took to his nest- hole twentyfeet away,and proceeded to reduce the size of the entrance. Amazing. Fascinating.
12-May-12 (09:30-12:30) Lots of Butterflys around this morning, especially in the area around Rhodes Lodges: 2 Peacock 6+ Orange Tip 2+ Small White Green-veined White Small Tortoiseshell
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE RSPB NATIONAL WILLOW TIT AND CARBON LANDSCAPE SURVEYS HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT In case you don't regularly check the stickies. The following email has just been received from Simon Wotton (The RSPB Willow Tit National Survey organiser) From: Simon Wotton [ma...
Our Red-listed endemic race of Willow Tit is the second-fastest declining bird species in the UK, after Turtle Dove, and is also monitored by the Rare Breeding Birds Panel (RBBP). RSPB, Lancashire Wildlife Trust and others have conducted research into the causes of decline, and eliminated a numbe...
Following on from tonights announcement we are following the Government guidelines and temporarily closing the Focalpoint Showroom until further notice. Our suppliers had already contacted us to say that they were no longer taking in repairs and we now have no way of sending anything. We cannot d...
6 Mistle Thrushes .............First this year for me. 1 Jay Lots of Blue Tits Quite A few Great Tits Small flock of LT tits 6 Greenfinch 1 Chaffinch Together on the Grass : 35 magpies Several Carrion Crows, Woodpigeons, Robins. c15 Mallard on the pond behind the railings. Peregine not present on the B...
21-03-09
12 Red breasted mergansers
100 oystercatchers
all the usual gulls
several curlew and distant bar tailed godwit
best of all 6 Slavonian grebe lifer for meone already in summer plumage
3 common scoter
We have on commission with us a mint condition Zeiss Diascope 85 (the silver body version) with a stay-on case and a 20-60x Zoom eyepiece. This is still my favourite Zeiss scope, it has dual focus (coarse and fine) in separate knobs rather than the later geared single knob which was less intuitive to us...
Just back from a 14 night stay in Thailand, 22 February until 7 March 2020. Weather sunny and hot every day with no rain. Around 34 degrees c with real feel at times up to 40 deg c. We were with a non birding couple so, as usual, it was a morning walk for an hour and a half before it got too hot. Otherwise, keepin...
Just back from a very pleasant break in Devon visiting "the relatives" near Dartmoor. Warfy senior (mr & mrs) had the comfort of their caravan whilst i pitched the tent near Drewsteignton overlooking the beautiful Castle Drogo and Hannicombe wood. Inspired by Ian's recent "M...
I unfortunately had to dispatch a wood pigeon yesterday at anglezarke which had somehow completely broken it's neck. It was still alive but must have been in great pain, so I am in no doubt I took the only option that was best for the bird. I just left the body a little bit away from the path. I didn't know if...
Originally posted on January 21st by Paul Brewster:As many will know I've been forced out of birding proper at the mo due to 2 cataract operations. I'm halfway through, so very incapacitated with my 2 eyes being totally out of synch. Added to that post-op infections and complications for which I'm st...
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3rd April.
1 flushed Woodcock, a singing male Lesser Redpoll was a nice surprise , a flock of c10 Linnets were feeding on a field trampled into a muddy mess by horses - possibly signs of the start of the summer influx of this species? Carrion Crows and Long-tailed Tits were nest building.
Cheers,
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