For a long time now it as been wildly known that Chaffinches and Greenfinches have been suffering from a disease which causes them to develop terrible growths on their feet. We have all been advised to regularly clean our bird feeders to try to minimise the infection risk, and from what I can gather Gre...
For Sale Nikon Coolpix L120. Bridge style camera - 14.1 Megapixels, 21x optical zoom. No viewfinder just a viewing screen. Multiple auto settings. Excellent condition (Sadly, NO memory card included). £70 ono. I also have a Lowepro case which I am willing to sell too for £15.
For Sale is a NEW and UNUSED Wildlife Watching Supplies Neoprene Lenscoat in Realtree APG for a CANON EF 500 L IS ii USM supertele lens. Product code - C61..33 Lovely Lenscoat for the New Mk2 Canon Lens.. Bought for £58 + postage. I bought this but have since bought a different lens and this lensc...
The three [badly sited] hides around Neumann's are now all useless. The rapid growth and invasion of reeds has cut visibility dramatically and the water margins recede ever further. Another season/summer will surely make them redundant. The unrestricted growth of hawthorn and other bushes make...
Our annual first trip of the year began, not too early, with 4 members of our group departing Rochdale and heading for coastal Lancashire. Promise of more rain around dinnertime, did not put us off. We called at Preston Docks first, hoping for the Ring Billed Gull with no success.Clifton Marsh area n...
With 5 days of the year remaining this may be a wee bit premature. However, as I sit here sprawled out across a settee, having eaten too much of everything, I find myself reflecting on the excellent records turned up by dedicated local patch workers in 2015. Who could have predicted a Stone Curlew, two R...
I've been bought a year's National Trust membership by my future mother-in-law as she seems to think it'll get me access to more places for birding...so, where's good to go in the North West (I've got two weeks off work over Christmas, so if the weather is half decent I could visit a few then)? I know Size...
Does anyone have any news/insights on whether we can expect a good influx of winter migrants from Scandinavia this year? I'm thinking mostly of redwing, fieldfare and waxwing, and I hope I'm right in saying a lot depends on the weather and subsequent availability of berries in Scandinavia. I'm sure...
Dozens of magazines from CAWOS dating back into the nineties, featuring reports, articles etc free to a good home, collect from North Manchester, Queens Road Collyhurst area upon arrangement
As we have not been getting the big number of gulls at Heaton Park Res. this autumn Ian and I checked out the tip at Pilsworth where most of our birds come from.Viridor who run the tip are using an automated scarer which is in use even on a sunday(the B*******ds) and as a result no gulls are using the tip.Whi...
I thought I'd start this 'hardy perennial' topic up as we have had the GM discussion, but not one for those of us who sneak off to other places occasionally. Apologies in advance for any perceived self-indulgence here... I have had a really good year, my year list has ended up on 232 and I am on 249 UK lifer...
Hi all, just a note to let everyone know when we will be open over the festive season. Coming up to Christmas (this week) we are open as normal (9.30am-4.30pm) on Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday. On Christma Eve, Thursday, Yvonne will be in shop from 10am-2pm, for any last minute shoppers!! Then we wil...
I don't do year lists now. I found the stress and frustration to be counter to what i thought birdwatching was supposed to be about. However it cannot be denied that your observational skills can be sharpened by the need to detect every bird present in a given area, and I felt that I was no longer doing thi...
always on the look out for a bargin?? aldi in altrincham have some robust looking tripods
for sale at a cracking 11.99, i didn,t open the box fearfull of having to get it back in there,
cheers geoff
I have a new scope coming my way and I am itching to give it a try. However as no tripod yet I'll need the benefit of a hide with a shelf I can use my small camera tripod upon. Does anyone know if any local sites have their hides open on Xmas day? Pennington Flash was where I was ideally thinking of going if anyon...
Hi all, I'm fortunate enough to be probably going to Panama for a research project next summer, I was wondering if anyone here had any advice about the best books to get for bird/other wildlife ID. It'd be a waste not to be prepared for some pretty good birding/wildlife watching...right?! Thanks
I thought to start a specific thread for this site as its quite a large area and is a newly created country park a new website has been launched see below. The site is an ex landfill that is due to fully completed in June 2011 and has some spectacular views over the high ground.Expectations are the...
The NEW Opticron DBA VHD Bins are now in stock, this is the new model, just launched as the flagship binocular in the Opticron range. They come in 8x42 and 10x42 and we have both in stock. They are open hinge and optically are fabulous. The following specification is provided by Opticron:"Smalle...
