Had an early walk around lower brushes up to Walkerwood reservoir
blue tits
great tits
wood pigeon 14
magpie 5
blackbird 3
blackheaded gulls 48
canada geese 37
robin 3
longtailed tits 6
mallard 2
pheasant
greenfinch 3
wren 1
house sparrows 4
mistlethrush
chaffinch
goldfinch
jac...
Oakmere Way runs eastwards from the south east corner of Delamere Forest and provides a link, via a Forestry Commission permissive footpath to the top end of Whitegate Way. The two mile long route is sandwiched between Delamere Golf Club to the north and Cheshire Sand Quarry to the south. Lovely scen...
Of course we had the Twitchers: A Very British Obsession from the BBC. A interesting programme with personality famous in the twitching world (anyone here featured in it?). Then The Big Year, the 2011 American observational comedy film starring comedy heavyweights Steve Martin, Jack Black and...
Alongside the River Douglas at Parbold today 12 Grey Partridge female Blackcap in riverside Brambles 2 Kestrel 12 Meadow Pipit 11 Fieldfare 400 Starling feeding on a damp field 2 Siskin 2 Reed Bunting
21 species this morning and a few nice ones.2 Little Egret, kingfisher, Grey Wagtail, 20 + Redwing on the feilds, Song and Mistle Thrush, Buzzard getting mithered by jackdaws , Goosander pair on canal, treecreeper and good tit flock including goldcrest and long tailed tits.
I received this today (for rings I read out of GM!) and post it here for those who it may also concern:Dear ringreaders of the Mediterranean gull colour ringing projects of Belgium, the Netherlands and France, In the past, you have been involved in these projects, mainly by sending colour ring readi...
7/4/07 p.m. 2 Little Ringed Plover - one in display flight 6 (3 prs.) Oystercatcher Snipe Swallow over Little Grebe 6 (3 prs.) Great Crested Grebe 2 Gadwall 3 LbBG 2 Sparrowhawk `courting` high above 2 Stock Dove -- Edited by Ian McKerchar at 15:06, 2007-07-15
Having booked a weeks holiday in Fuerteventura for September, I was wondering if anybody has any tips on the best places to go birding there.??? Although it is a beach and sunshine hoilday as such, I am planning on spending just one day of the holiday to target Fueteventura Chat, Trumpeter Finch and Ho...
Not the most exciting first post,but a nocturnal visit to Horrocks Flash revealed quite a few bats,sp unknown and 2 hedgehogs along the tow path,much to busters amusement. cheers geoff
Originally posted today by Andy Slee: Working on the outside 22m Level of Newton House, at grisley Risley today, I had the shock to be looking down on a Green Sandpiper calling as it was making its way across Birchwood Business Park. Looking back where it came from, it would probably have come from Silv...
Over the past 30 years and, noticeably, the past 10-15 , I have noticed a huge decline in both the number and size of rookeries in Northern England. In Manchester they have disappeared, or reduced significantly, from Middleton, Heston Park, Whitefield and Heywood. I was looking around West Yorkshi...
As of November 1st, 2025, Great White Egret has been removed from the County Rarity List. Full details of the decision and some analysis of past records can be found on the ‘What’s New’ page of the Manchester Birding Website here
26/1 Late afternoon Snipe - 7 flushed off the (very) flooded hay fields by Millgate Fields. Never even seen a single Snipe there before. Little Grebe - 2 on Mersey by Simon's Bridge Goosander - 2 pairs on Mersey Green Woodpecker - 1 by Millgate Fields
Looks like the UK Gov have decided to use the previously GE Hitachi owned land (that UK Gov bought in 2024) to build our next generation of Nuclear reactors over the Tern Colony at Cemlyn. Now don't get me wrong, I am a nuclear reactor designer and operator by day job but Wylfa was built in the 1970 for one p...
A female Long-tailed Duck is present on a mill lodge in Walmersley. The lodge is situated immediately behind the conservative club on Mather Road; park in the area around the club and take the footpath by the side of it to the bridge along the edge of the lodge to view the area. Please note a small percent...
Originally posted today by Keith Williams: Late post for Saturday, 25-30 Yellowhammer in the field between Dean's Farm and Old Carr House viewed from Carr Lane.
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
The "last of the summer wine" lads had a good day at Old Moor. Remembered my bins as well. Nearly bought a Viking 66ED scope - very nice.
Flocks of lapwings,starlings and plovers.
Brent Geese,
Swans
Great Tits
Blue Tits
Tree Sparrows
Green Finch
Goldfinch
Linnets
Grey Heron
R...
Sunday 7th: An impressive group of 12 Buzzards circling in the vicinity of Ashurst Beacon before dispersing Peregrine along the West Lancs side of the Billinge Hill ridge -- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Wednesday 20th of April 2011 10:27:00 PM
Maybe its just me but I seem to be seeing much more movement of Pink-feet this year. I'm probably seeing at least 1 or 2 skeins per day over the house whereas in previous years I'd probably see 1 or 2 per week, or am I imagining it?
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.
Dunkirk Wood Common Buzzard (mobbed by three Carrion Crows) Great Spotted Woodpecker (heard only) Nuthatch (heard only) Song Thrush (singing) 6 Long Tailed Tit Also good numbers of Blue and Great Tits A female Sparrowhawk quickly put an end to the quarrelling of six House Sparrows on the housing es...
On walk from town centre to bridge at East Didsbury saw the following: Sparrowhawk - female by pyramid Kestrel - near bridge for M60 Bullfinch - pair near vale farm Chiffchaff - definately 4 birds possibly 5, in several places but 2 birds near vale farm blue tit great tit long tailed tit dunnock mistle t...
We are looking to thin out much/most of our bird book collection and have various books in the Poyser, Pica, and Helm series (covering bird families) as well as 4 in the New Naturalist series, field guides for virtually all world hotspots/countries, as well as the handbooks for The birds of Africa (6 v...
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...
Just got back last night from a four day stint at Spurn Bird Observatory. No great rarities, although I did miss Bee Eater which was present before we arrived, and Spoonbill on Sunday morning (due to spending too much time in the pub on Saturday evening).
The weather looked promising on Thursday w...
As it was only 30 odd miles from where I was ,thought I'd pop up for the Western Sandpiper at Maidens as I'd never seen one in this country,only in Mexico and California. Wasn't disappointed as the bird was showing well all the time I was there in the harbour.
