Having relatively recently relocated (work wise) to Kew in Southport I have resisted starting a thread but as the list of good birds continues to grow I've finally succumbed. So ignoring the 3 species of Owl (including 2 from my office window). I'd thought I'd start with todays sightings: Male Ring O...
Getting my Friday bacon butty this morning, I got chatting with the butty van couple and they know I do conservation work. They described seeing birds in their Worsley garden...like blue tits but smaller and with a bright red crest. I asked if it could have been orangey rather than red but they were ada...
Sad account of habitat destruction, in the name of conservation, relating to Red Rocks NR. Article attached to the Dee Estuary website, and well worth a read. -- Edited by John Williams on Thursday 24th of April 2014 09:29:04 PM
Yesterday I found a downed racing pigeon at Chorlton Ees while failing to find any more star migrants on a walk from Chorlton WP. I took its ring details through my scope. It was a Royal Pigeon Racing Association bird which have leg rings beginning GB. I discovered the best site for reporting lost pigeo...
Telescope - Swarovski 80HD with 20x60 zoom eye piece in excellent condition (less than 2 years old), together with Culman hide clamp plus Opticron window clamp, both also in excellent condition. The only reason for sale sadly is sudden death of owner last year. All sensible offers to birding friend...
The UK countryside supports large numbers of several thrush species through the winter. The Winter Thrushes Survey aims to find out more about their numbers and distribution, and the resources that they need to survive to spring and the next breeding season. Are we good hosts to these birds? What ar...
On Friday moning last week I met 2 guys from Lancashire Wildlife trust on Little Woolden moss in the area of f38 (the old barn). They told me that the trust had bought that piece of land (approx 8 hectares). They are going to encourage the land to return to natural bog and some work is going to start soon, no...
FOR SALE ..... NIKON 300MM F4 AF-S LENS PLUS , NIKON 1.4 T.C. COMPLETE WITH 77MM UV FILTER & CAMO COVER. ABSOLUTELY MINT CONDITION APART FROM UNPREVENTABLE TRIPOD SCRATCHES. BUY NOW ONLY PRICE OF £850.00 RELUCTANT TO SELL BUT DUE TO OTHER LENSES IT HAS TO GO !! RELISTED DUE TO THE PREVIOUS BUYER BEI...
The new 2011 Greater Manchester County Bird Report is out now! The Report Production Team genuinely appreciates the patience and understanding of county birders in the time it has taken to produce the 2011 County Bird Report. It has taken some considerable time and more considerable effort for the...
Just a bit of fun. . Is anyone going to get a photograph of the Pennington flash Cetti's warbler bird? I know there are lots of good photographers on here on no one has manged a photo of this skulker. Its fantastically stayed with us for ages now but still no photo? Good luck. Someones got to get lucky and ge...
Over the last few weeks I have seen Goldcrest, Blue & Great Tits, Dunnock, Chiffchaff, Robin etc, either with beaks full of nesting material or insects. The breeding season is upon us, especially for our resident birds. With all this new life appearing, or about to, I was horrified to industrial...
Good Morning All, I have just joined the forum. My name is John and i live near the Manchester area. My main hobbies are photography and wildlife. I took up photography about 2 years ago so i still have a lot to learn but that is all part of the fun. I joined the forum to hopefully find some good local bird hid...
Is anyone listening to Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio2 right now? Apparently a male Mute Swan is targeting ethnic minority students at Warwick University. I've never heard such rubbish. Have they never thought that it might just be by chance that the majority of students passing the Swan's territory just...
Check out YouTube: The Natural Beauty of the Manchester/Salford Mosses Chris Packham didn't have a window, so we had to make do with Beethoven providing the soundtrack
Did an early morning Common Bird Survey at Peel Hall, near Winwick, on behalf of the Peel Hall Conservation Group (PHCG) which Ste Dodd and I have been involved in setting up. Also included Houghton Green Pool in the survey. Full results will be on the PCHG Facebook site but highlights were: 1 Dunlin, 2...
From the early stages of planning the Bird Atlas book it was apparent that we couldn't include all of the maps for all of the species and we intended to produce an online resource in the future. We made reference to this in the book on page 150 but we have since changed the name! On Tuesday the BTO will be lau...
FOR SALE ..... NIKON 300MM F4 AF-S LENS PLUS , NIKON 1.4 T.C. COMPLETE WITH 77MM UV FILTER & CAMO COVER. ABSOLUTELY MINT CONDITION APART FROM UNPREVENTABLE TRIPOD SCRATCHES. BUY NOW ONLY PRICE OF £850.00 RELUCTANT TO SELL BUT DUE TO OTHER LENSES IT HAS TO GO !! -- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Saturday...
Scope for sale, including stay on case will take £150 if collected http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/151267670081 -- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Saturday 5th of April 2014 04:37:46 PM
Today's sudden announcement of a major enhancement to Birdtrack, was something of a pleasant surprise though I did find it a little strange that the BTO chose April Fool's Day to make the annoucement (though in fairness, recent editions of the BTO magazine indicated that such an enhancement was in p...
Just wondering We have warblers and harriers and others that (for some reason) don't migrate back to Africa etc and choose to overwinter Has there been any research into this ? Why does this occur and has it always been so or is it a more recent phenomenon ? Thanks Pete
Top of the range Opticron HR80 EDA Scope with SDL V2 Zoom eyepiece (x20 - x60), green optician stay on case and original boxes Immaculate condition used for less than 3 months £595 ono with opportunity to try before purchase Current retail price circa £1,000 selling on behalf of a friend as have purcha...
Some weeks ago I visited the wild wings bird of prey rescue centre within the Bents Garden Centre it was a great couple of hours seeing the birds and chatting to the staff in particular listening to the staff (nearly all volunteers) describing the birds stories. Most were not wild birds but rescued fal...
