Thursday - 15.35 - 14.40 Redwing 10+ Fieldfare 40+ Lesser black back & Black headed gulls 300+ mixed Canada geese 122 Greylag with white aroud beak Teal 4 Jay Cormorant 2 Pheasant greenfinch carrion crow starling lots of small groups around Just spent one hour up there and i am sure i missed loads b...
Originally posted today by Ben Hall: Showing how the range of Ring-necked Parakeet is extending to the very north of Greater Manchester. A couple of weeks ago I saw a lone parakeet flying North over Edenfield, which is right on the Bury border
It is with real sadness I inform of the passing of long-time Pennington Flash regular, Barry Hulme, following a battle with Cancer. Barry will be known to many, perhaps mainly via his posts on this forum merely due to the fact that he generally visited the flash so early, many visitors would arrive lon...
Velbon sherpa 200r boxed as new unused condition £120 ovno.if interested do get in touch. Complete with quick release plate. -- Edited by David Hughes on Wednesday 5th of February 2025 08:55:29 AM
A few butterflies this p.m. (small tortoiseshells and commas), but the highlight was a largish, light brown bat flying over the river beneath Jim Fearnley bridge at 4.00 p.m! Given the location, the low flight over the water, and its unfamiliarity to me, I am near certain it was a Daubenton's. After a...
13.00-17.00 1 Spotted Flycatcher by the Northern entrance to the site. Heathland 1 Green Woodpecker, also 24 Mistle Thrushes on the reclaimed heath. Woods 3 Jays, 1 Treecreeper plus the usual garden birds. This is a huge site, mainly sandy heathland, but also some woodland, which is largely birch w...
Leica APO77 straight version with 20-60x zoom. Optically good, the zoom lens was repaired by a non Leica repairer as Leica no longer do repair work. The lens is fine but numbers do not align. Scope is in good condition having had a Skua cover since new, cover comes with the scope but is showing its age. Lo...
An afternoon visit to Lincolnshire today started off at 1.00pm at Rosper Road Pools, Immingham for the reported Collared Pratincole. The bird had flown off 10 minutes prior to arriving and as it seemed to be in the habit of feeding mainly in the morning and evening, we decided to head for Tetney Locks t...
15/2.
The valley has been really quiet for several weeks now - but today
was a little better!
The sighting of a flushed Woodcock was a nice way for me to start
the morning - although I am sure that the Woodcock probably wasn't too pleased that I had disturbed its rest!
Also about - an Oystercatche...
A really good afternoon. At least 100 martins and swallows around the water treatment works attracted a hunting hobby. This was seen at close range as it didn't see me below the bankside tree canopy and flew directly over at about 15 meters. Buzzard and sparrowhawk seen just after this. The other high...
What are the prospects for Red Kite breeding in the GM area? Despite odd sightings over the years, unless I am mistaken, they are yet to settle here. They seem to do OK on the wrong side of the Pennines, even quite close to major urban areas eg Eccup Reservoir near Leeds. But not GM. Why not despite similar...
Written by Robert Archer: This year, on 3rd May Peter and Norma Johnson recorded their 1000th Tawny Owl chick from one of their boxes! This is a tremendous achievement reflecting the amount of time, money and effort they have both put in to helping our local bird life. Peter has made and put up all the b...
BRAND NEW ( May 2025 ) Leofoto 224c 10 layer Carbon fibre Tripod with Leofoto Bv1R Fluid Head . [ part of a bundle that wasn't required ] . Never been out of the box . List price £217 and £160 each . BOTH Items for £175 ! Opticron MM3 E.D 60 with SDL V2 Eyepiece and 23 x Wide angle eyepiece . [ pls note the SDL has sl...
Spent a lovely Saturday at 2 great spots in Devon whilst visiting friends this weekend. Trendlebere in East Dartmoor: Area opposite car park was the best with Dartford Warbler Redstart 2 Spotted Flycatcher Tree Pipit 8 Stonechat Green Woodpecker 2 Willow Warbler Afternoon seawatch at Berry Head i...
Any idea whats in the photos - whilst watching the ducklings on my pond I saw this dead bird on one of the stepping stones, the feet were what interested me and the fact it was about Great Tit sized tail and body, but totally black plumage (we will never know the head plumage as it wasn't there). Only been th...
Considering i now live round here i thought id start a new thread to post my local sightings (unless one already exists? I couldn't find it if so) Bentley hall farm fields along Hall street. x3 Spotted flycatchers X2 Grey wagtails X2 snipe (which scared the living daylights out of me as I nearly sto...
Small bat feeding around trees , near the golf course on hall lane 0800 this morning. -- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Sunday 8th of July 2012 04:53:41 PM
David Shallcross wrote:Hi John i'll pass this on (with your permission) and go tomorrow to see Geoff... as he does the feeding (What's UP)jOHN TYMON wrote: Once again today the birds were having to put up with massive disturbance as the fire service again were doing training and with the normal y...
Visited this site for the first time yesterday with Mike R and Ian.
Superb site, Turtle Dove calling, lots of Crossbill, 3 - 5 Common Buzzard but the jewel, two Honey Buzzard displaying for about 1- 15 minutes, with plenty of wing-clapping.
Then on to Bempton for the usual sea-birds at point blank...
Having not seen any peregrines for several weeks I thought they had finally vacated for the winter. This afternoon though, I saw 2 (1 adult, 1 1st year), chasing each other around St Peter's square for about 5 minutes, before settling on the Town Hall, just before dusk, approx 4pm. Not sure if they were...
08:30 to 09:45. 1 male Black redstart. 2 Snipe drumming near car park. 1 male and 1 female Ring ouzel near trig point. A flight of 8 Ring ouzels heading north along the edge, don'the know whether the 2 birds seen on the ground were part of this group or not. 6 Red grouse, 4 males and 2 females.
Couple of hours walk this am from Blue John Cavern- Hollins Cross-Mam Tor Highlights: 4 Whinchat, inc 2 juvenilles Raven Peregrine 4 Willow Warbler 15 Goldfinch Many Swallow, some House Martin/Swift 15 Meadow Pipit Sparrowhawk
went for a mooch down the gorge today. how do you get a highlight out of wood warbler stone chat redstart pied flycatcher spotted flycatcher 2 calling cuckoo they're all highlights
Just booked two weeks in Cyprus first two weeks in August with lovely (non-birding wife). Staying at ****ouri which is on the south coast half way between Paphos and Limassol. I know its probably a bit to early for return migration but I have to be back for Citys first home match!. I would really appreci...
