Lunch time
Little Grebe 3+
Great crested Grebe
Tufted duck 30
Pochard 1
Goldeneye 6 (one male)
Kestrel pair displaying
Willow Tit near to treatment works
We have just taken another Nikon ED50 Fieldscope in on a Commission sale basis. The comments about the other are probably even more applicable to this one! It is an ultra-cheap option for anyone who wants a small travel scope, probably a an addition to a larger scope. This one is again angled, has a 20x f...
We Three saw 3 dippers on the river. One on it's own, and then at a waterfall/dam we watched two feeding young from the river to a hole in the dam bank.
Must have been serious as there were also 3 very large lenses in front of 3 men who looked settled for the day taking pictures.
A quick walk round produced a few mushrooms; The Miller - new to this site which i have been watching over for 15 years Fly Agaric Meadow Waxcap Hornbeam Milkcap Sulphur Tuft Conifer Mazegill Dave
We have just received, to sell on a Commission basis, a Digital Night Vision Monocular. This was an unwanted gift and has only been used once. The model is the Pulsar Digiforce 860VS Digital Night Vision. It is boxed with all accessories (leads, case, instructions) and costs £249.95 full price. This...
This is an important notice in case anyone out there is offered optical equipment for sale. There has been a break in (not Focalpoint) and several binoculars and at least one telescope have been stolen. All the kit was Opticron and included an MM4 angled Travelscope, DBA VHD Binoculars and Imagic BGA...
Having never been to South America, I was a little daunted to tackle a whole new avifauna among the diverse priorities of a family holiday (taking advantage of Stockport's 2-week spring half term) and only English and GCSE French with which to bluff our way through a Portuguese-speaking country. Ho...
On a two week holiday based in Alanya at the Monart City Hotel from 8th to 22nd May. I got out each morning early before 6.30am and usually found something of interest. I often walked along the promenade early but the species were limited as Alanya is a large city. I also visited Dim Cayi ( a dam at the head o...
This area is better known to insect watchers but whilst down here I always keep an eye on the avian life. Visiting on 31st May I chanced upon my third brood of Mandarins in Cheshire in less than 8 days!! This time I couldn't see how many duckling as they were keeping hidden under overhanging bankside vege...
We are looking for some volunteers to man/woman Hides and assist with showing members of Leigh Rotary Club around the Flash and I.D.ing the birds. Birdwatch at Pennington Flash Thursday 15th June ~ Meet in the main car park at 9.30 am Experts from the local Birdwatching Society will be our guides. Jo...
This is a reply to Doc Brewster's comment on the Flamborough thread earlier, I'll try to explain my reasons as best I can Doc as to why I don't do listing. I don't do listing as a rule, whether it be day, year, county, or UK listing, I haven't even done a life list, I just know what I've seen and what I haven't i...
Stamford Street, near St Michael's Square, site of demolished building. A five minute linger during lunch hour revealed the following butterflies: 1 large white 6 small white 2 small tortoiseshell 1 comma (an Ashton first for me) all in one of the scruffiest sites imaginable - thank God for buddlei...
A walk around the Preston Brook area today, we found two flocks of Fieldfares, one contained 180 birds along with 40 Redwings while the second had 30 birds, a further 2 Redwings were found along the remainder of the walk and we counted 7 Chiffchaffs.
Hello everyone, I am writing to ask for your participation in an important voluntary wetland bird survey across the River Irwell catchment within Greater Manchester. The method will be the same as the BTO/JNCC/RSPB Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS), will use the transects that they have provided to us, a...
Hi, I have read loads on the new Atx/Stx 85 and 95 scopes , but has anyone got any experience with them ? and which is better the 85 or 95 ? I know the internet is full of experts etc, on them,but was hoping for some local knowledge ? Keep Birding
RSPB Coombes 2 pied flycatcher (m+f) plus singing redstart about. 20+ bullfinch about with singing chiff chaff, willow warbler and mistle thrush. raven, buzzards and kestrels over. usual tits finches including willow/marsh tit. -- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Saturday 21st of May 2011 07:13:35 PM...
Hello all, We, alongside the RSPB are conducting a population wide survey into the english breeding range of Twite. We're short a few volunteers to cover sites in the North of the county and beyond into Lancashire. Volunteering would include 2 visits to an allocated moorland grid reference to recor...
Spotted in the area between Clifton Country pk. and Drinkwater pk. Slightly larger than a sparrow, all grey plumage with a black tuft of hair like a brush on top of head.
There was an I nteresting article on the radio news this morning regarding counting Northern Royal Albatrosses on the remote and mostly inaccessible Chatham Islands off New Zealand. Using the latest NASA technology, ultra high resolution satellite images, they can accurately count objects as s...
Had a lovely walk today. Parked on Botany Bay car park and followed the canal towards Leeds (away from Botany bay)
Saw
Whitethroat
Kestrel
Grey wagtail
Reed Bunting
Sedge warbler
Lapwings with young
Long tailed tits with young
Nuthatches with 8 young
Jackdaws with young...
Big pollution incident being reported by Manchester Evening News on the River Irwell from Ewood Bridge Sewage Works, south of Rawtenstall all the way down river to Manchester City Centre involving pesticides which have apparently caused a total wipeout of all invertebrates!! Morons dumping tox...
Place your bets ladies and gentlemen, then see if your guess is correct. Keep watching the pond near the top left of the picture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK09cVICKGg A second video is available, but don't go to 'Buxton Weather' until you've watched this one or it might give the game away....
09.00-11.30 A new venue for me, I'd been advised the site was a good place to look for Adders (Please see other wildlife thread) 1f Sparrowhawk and 2 singing Blackcaps. Otherwise just common garden birds seen.
10am to 10.45am 7 Mallards 1 male eclipse Mandarin (seen in April, and has reappeared since late July in eclipse. A bit more colour now confirming male. Always seen on river, not ponds) 4 Feral Pigeons 7 Woodpigeons 3 Wrens 2 Dunnocks 4 Robins 1 Blackbird 2 Chiffchaffs Long-tailed Tits, Blue Tits, and...
