On the way to work this morning at c.9am a Grey Wagtail flew over the A559 Marston Lane/Hall Lane near to the junction with B5391Church Street/Wincham Lane, not a million miles away from Neumann's and Ashton's Flashes as well as other water bodies and floods so worth keeping an eye open. Albeit the bir...
Located in Ashton under Lyne, between the golf course and Hartshead Pike. Its a disused reservoir which has since been partly drained with a lower water remaining for anglers and mixed woodland of different ages.
A walk on Monday evening produced
Willow Warbler
Chiffchaff
Blackcap
Robin
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Stonechat, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (in Wythenshawe at last !!!!!!) Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker (pair) in Mile Lane. All three Woodpeckers within half a mile of where of where I used to live. Some places, you never forget!!!
I have for a good few years now operated a rarity text alert system for county rarities within Greater Manchester. The system was originally offered to those birders who contributed with the Manchester Birding website in some way, usually those who sent in images, bird sightings and the likes. With...
Having completed a days survey work at East Heslerton, near Filey, on Thursday I drove the short trip down to Bempton Cliffs.
What a great idea , not been on cliffs like that for a year or so, 1000's of Auks, Kittiwakes and Gannets all screaming in what appeared a chaotic mess on the cliffs, over the sea...
Not the most inspiring topic header, but I had a Hobby over my garden in A in M today about 4.45pm. Looked like it came from the Three Sisters direction. I thought I saw one yesterday out towards the Three Sisters but it was flying away from me so couldnt say for sure. Cracking garden tick -- Edited by Ian Mc...
Couldn't find a thread for non-avian wildlife at this site, so here we go! I think worth having one as the site has reptiles and amphibians, and (probably) some interesting invertebrates. Visit this afternoon to check survey mats for Lancashire Amphibian and Reptile Group: 7 viviparous lizards an...
A wander down the perimeter of Eccles Sewage Works was interesting with over a 100 Pied Wagtails feeding on and around the sewage beds,also at least 150 Black Headed Gulls ,2 Herring gulls and a few Jackdaws also feeding on the beds.On the adjacent Ship Canal there were another 50 plus Black Headed Gul...
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...
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...
A great walk from dunsop bridge to whitendale farm lots of willow warblers,chiff chaff,chaffinch,coal tits.Also had 4 grey wagtail and 4 pied wagtails.Lots of pheasant about the place they realy look comical chasing each other about like wind up toys. Big thanks to the nice couple from Preston who...
spotted redshank on the north shore of the resr at approx 12:37 this afternoon briefly them flew off in the direction of elton reservoir possibly
Info thanks to dave winnard
A red letter day today.
A Great White Egret flew through north at approx 1.30. Probably the bird that seems to have vacated Holmes Chapel this morning (info thanks to Geoff Lightfoot).
I was searching the area at approx 3.00 when another text arrived from Geoff to say was watching a Little Egret in...
Naden Brook Black Pits - Chiffchaff x 1 Coal Bank Wood - Chiffchaff x 1 + Nuthatch Bullfinch calling at Carr Wood road bridge. Green Woodpecker calling from Carr Wood area. Noticeable abscence of treecreepers in these parts on my Spring walks
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Signs of migration seen from the Aviation Viewing Park at Manchester Airport, Wednesday, 3rd October. 5 Swallows heading the correct way viz. south. Meadow Pipits and Pied Wagtails about. 3 Redwings. 1 Wheatear. Also a Sparrowhawk upsetting the Starlings. A group of 15 LT Tits. Phil Greenwood. --...
This weekend was the first of Oldham birders' regular bi-annual visits to the Three Swallows. A good weekend with about 110 species between the five of us (self, Riggers and 3 other,non-computer -owning, survivors of Oldham RSPB). Highlights included Riggers emergency stop on the A149 for a mixed...
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...
We had a trip out to the new rspb reserve at Hesketh Outer Marsh today had a guided walk with the warden Graham Clarkson Not many species of birds seen but it was at low tide and will be a lot better at high tide Birds seen Peregrine, over 1000 Pink feet who must have got sick of the Helicopter coming off Warto...
Friday 25 July Brown Hawker Emperor 50+ Common Blue Damselflies Common Blue 2 Speckled Wood 4 Large White Large numbers of Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper and Small Skipper Cinnabar caterpillars on the Ragwort Some rather nice Teasels too
I've recently returned from a classic week on the Scillies, 14th-19th October, 2011. This year was probably my best in the five years i've been going. Upon arrival I didn't know what direction to go and what to see first such was the cast of long-staying rarities present. There were good numbers of sca...
A short holiday to France with my good friend Ethan and his partner. For a bit of context, Ethan and I both studied Zoology with Herpetology and met at university; neither him nor his partner are particularly interested in birds but I hope to see some interesting continental species along with the rep...
Just got back from my annual pilgrimage to the Mecca of seawatching,and although it was poor by Cornish standards I still managed to see:-
Great Shearwater (1)
Cory's (1)
Balearic Shearwater(20+)
Sooty Shearwater(15+)
Storm Petrel(40+)
Bonxie(12)
Arctic Skua(3)
Plus all the usual sus...
