A walk around Greenfield sewage works this morning. Five goosander and a dipper on the river. A mixed flock around the feeders above the bowling green included a couple of bullfinch, a few redpoll and a nice male brambling. A walk in the afternoon to Dovestones produced plenty of fieldfare and redwin...
May 8th to 19th Stayed on Gozo, a small Maltese Island. Relaxing holiday with binoculars at hand, weather mild & windy. Just caught the tail end of the main migration season for the Maltese Islands. Our first visit for 10 years, after spending some time researching on the internet, half expected...
11/04/2013 - A Bittern was seen at the reserve today. It was first seen in flight heading towards the water treatment works reedbed just over the railway line. After a stake-out it eventually flew out and landed really close by giving good views. It seems this is likely to be a different bird to the one l...
I'll be taking the family to Lyme Park tomorrow. Does anyone on here know what I can expect to see there (apart from Darcy!)? I can't find anything on tinterweb so maybe there are no decent birds there...
Thanks.
2nd February 2008.
9 Goosander, 8 Tufted Duck, 21 Coot, c80 Canada Geese, 1 Greylag Goose.
5 Siskin, 2 Lesser Redpoll, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker.
Plenty of birds in song - singles of Song & Mistle Thrush - several of each for Dunnock, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Robin and Wren.
Grey Herons occup...
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Excellent butterfly spotting today with 6 species seen:- 1 brimstone, 11 peacock (maybe numbers on the mend?), 7 comma, 6 small tortoiseshell, and year firsts 2 male orange tip and 2 small white. -- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Friday 29th of March 2019 11:06:20 PM
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.
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Male Redstart today in the sun. What a gorgeous, joy to be alive, bird. Willow Warbler yesterday. You know this lockdown has forced me to renew my love for the home patch!
20 Waxwing in Chorlton Park n poplars in the NW corner but mobile. Also Woodcock nearby. Info thanks to Tony O'Mahony -- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Saturday 23rd of March 2013 12:30:24 PM
Apfel Lane Shaggy Inkcap Common Marbled Carpet - 'brown patch' variant (record shot on the relevant thread on the wildlife forum) -- Edited by Mike Chorley on Saturday 8th of October 2011 09:40:17 PM-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Saturday 8th of October 2011 11:05:48 PM
Quick visit this afternoon with Henry Cook for the reported Yellow-Browed Warbler.
Suprised to find that the site is a just a small Community Centre Car Park lined with a few trees and bushes on a side road in the outskirts of Burnley.
The bird was heard calling after a few minutes of arrival but sti...
This is a very nice reserve just north of Torrevieja on the Costa Blanca about 40 mins south of Alicante Airport and 30 mins north of the airport at Murcia. A very large lagoon (too big to see stuff at the other side), surrounded by reedbeds, farmland, scrub and some woodland. Was over in Spain last week a...
went exploring this evening, into the little strip of woodland between Mauldeth Rd, and the police training centre. not been there before. plenty of birds around including:
Grey Wagtail - pair on the stream
Goldcrest -2
GS Woodpecker 1
Treecreeper - 1
Mistle Thrush - 3
Song Thrush - 2
Willow...
The Wet Willow Wildlife Project, led by the Lancashire Wildlife Trust, is focused on improving wet willow habitats on a landscape scale to support a wide range of species, with a particular emphasis on the willow tit. This species has experienced a concerning 94% decline since the 1970s, and we are d...
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...
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...
18/6/11 (am) A walk from Blundell Lane, around Aberdeen Farm, joining the canal at Aberdeen Bridge, down to Arley Moat and back up Arley Lane: 2 Curlews 3 Oystercatchers 1 Lapwing 2 Buzzards 1 Kingfisher 2 Common Terns fishing along the canal 3 Great Spotted Woodpeckers 2 Linnets 3 Pied Wagtails (juv...
Hi I have terrestrial shrimp records at a site in Winton, Salford. Just wondering if there are any other records of this in Greater Manchester or any experts on this who could come and look ? Cheers
Off to see the chicks this week 3 hatched again top class place to visit free entry nest cam video of last years birds, only takes just over 1 hour to get there. Plenty of other birds to see if you walk down the river was there last bank holiday saw 3 0spreys flying,buzzards, whooper swans which stays over ,...
Next year this forum (along with the Manchester Birding website) will be celebrating its 20th anniversary, yes, its now been running for 19 years! It has gone from strength to strength too, become busier and busier all thanks to you its dedicated users. Though we’ve come close to a million views a mon...
