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...
The Birds of the Western Palearctic Concise Edition Both volumes of this classic work, boxed, in excellent condition, £45, can arrange a mutually convenient drop-off
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.
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Saturday 22nd Good numbers of Ruby Elfcup Fungi at Jubilee Nature Reserve this morning. Cheers Dave Phillips. -- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Monday 24th of February 2020 05:46:58 PM
On the evening of February 26th we are holding an astronomical event at our showroom at Sevenoaks Sawmill on the A559 (CW9 6JB). The evening will start at 6pm running until 9pm and will have staff from our shop and a Celestron representative present to help answer all questions on 'Astro' equipment. A...
Saw an interesting moth on the claypits today but couldn't identify it.looked on the internet and the closest I could find to it was yellow underwing.roughly the same size as a cinnabar moth big bodied with a yellow patch at the base of the wings.the rest of the wings were dark/black with a prominent ye...
Another commission sale has arrived in the showroom and shouldn't be with us long. It is the popular Opticron Travelscope, the MM3 50ED, the previous model to the current MM4 and MM3 range.This is boxed and in excellent condition and is body only. The customer is asking only £229 for this scope body. D...
We have on commission sale a telescope body with 80mm objective. It is the Opticron ES80 ED telescope. This is a body only, with no eyepiece so would suit a buyer who already has Opticron or of course we have eyepices for sale too. It comes with a green stay-on case and a box, although the box is for the mode...
Good weeks birding around Moray Firth from Spey Bay across to Loch of Strathbeg. Some great sea watching that would have been even better a month or so earlier.
Saw the following;
Red Throated Diver,
Black Throated Diver
Great Northern Diver x 1(Burghead Bay)
Slavonian Grebe x 1(Burghead Bay)...
At 12.15 today 3 ring necked parakeets were at Tonge Cemetery on Cemetery Road Bolton. They were still there content and preening at 12.50 when I left. Two of them have been mating and using an unused old Gtr Spotted Woodpecker nest. The local magpies and crows are showing an interest in the new noisy n...
Twenty copies of British Wildlife from late 2016 to end of 2019 free to a good home, to be collected from Ramsbottom area, first come first served. Regards Brian 07708161437.
We have on commission a complete scope outfit that would set someone up with nothing extra to buy. It is a Leica APO62 angled scope with 16-48x Zoom eyepiece and 32x fixed eyepiece. It has a stay=on Leica case and a Leica camera adapter. It also comes with a Velbon 5370D tripod and a Viking Tripod S'Port t...
We have for sale on commission a nice pair of Leica bins, they are Leica 8x42 BNs, a classic model from Leicas past range. The bins come with strap, rainguard and box. They are in good nick optically although like all bins of this age the lenses do show signs of having been cleaned, but this doesn't affect...
With Arpley Tip shutting down and suffering severe withdrawal symptoms Jeff and I decided to check out Gowy Landfill,a bit of time was wasted till we found the best areas to view the gulls,well worth it with about 10,000 gulls in the area we managed to see the following in a shortish space of time:- A cra...
We have on commission sale a Swarovski Fixed eyepiece for the ATS/STS/ATM/STM scopes. It is a 20x fixed magnification and in good condition. The customer is asking ONLY £175 for this. Please ring 01925 730399 for availability.More Details & pictures here:https://www.focalpointopticsl...
We have on commission sale a Swarovski Fixed eyepiece for the ATS/STS/ATM/STM scopes. It is a 30x fixed magnification and in good condition. The customer is asking ONLY £175 for this. Please ring 01925 730399 for availability. More Details & pictures here: https://www.focalpointopticsltd...
Just a quick post as we are at the start (ish) of the listing year. Here at Focalpoint we have always provided Bird Leagues on our website for folk to keep track of their lists. They aren't really competitive, much more there for record keeping an a casual basis. At present for 2020 we have leagues for the...
