There were three Goosander on the end water (behind the football ground) this evening. A pair of Great Crested Grebes has also returned.
At the other end, near the entrance to Alexandra Park, there was a flock of about 20 strangely confident Redwing feeding in the leaf litter between the feet of chi...
Hi All, Just for information, we have started a Community Wildlife Garden Project in Chorlton. See our website for more details: www.chorltoncommunitywildlifegarden.org.uk or follow us on Twitter: @WildlifeGarden2 We are looking for more volunteers to help with the project. Thanks Dave
A non birding friend of mine has tried to describe a bird to me. He described it as having:- 'A black cap/head with a white strip, rest of body was brown and grey.' I immediately thought, coal tit, until he said:- And the size of a starling, and was not as agile as the tits around the feeder! I tried to vision...
can anyone recommend a lightweight travel tripod. I've been looking on the web and the swaro version is expensive (~£500!), but I wondered about the velbon carbon fibre from in-focus. Both seem to reduce to 50cm or less in height. Any advise or user comments welcome! Ps I'm looking for 2Kg weight and u...
On Saturday 15th February, during Go Green Week 2014, the Manchester Ship Canal World Heritage Group presents... LOVE BIRDS, an event to encourage people to enjoy the wildlife of our local mosslands, and in particular, the birds The concept is see what you can see, find out for yourself the wonderfu...
This development (if it goes ahead) will see more green space disappear under Concrete for ever. There is a chance to protest to the planning Committe, which is due to meet at 5:45PM, Wed 12-Feb-14 at The Community Centre Rochdale Road Oldham Asusual, with developments like this, the information is...
From the tight bend on St John's road in Chew Moor a short track leads to Wicken Lee's Farm. Just past the farm, the track crosses a bridge over the Wigan/Bolton Railway,and paths run across to the Preston/Bolton railway. The land between the railways consists of a mixture of scrub land and farm land wi...
Cheshire Wildlife Trust are happy to announce that Iolo Williams will be attending a very special event in Chester in March. I was at a CWT strategy meeting yesterday and was shown this brilliant, inspirational and very hard hitting video >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnJQjtvn...
Leaflet dropped through the door today stating that Coronation Power are putting together a proposal for a 17 mast wind farm to straddle either side of Rooley Moor Road - for those that view from a distance, that's just east of the existing Scout Moor wind farm. Public exhibitions shortly in a number o...
We had family staying with us this last weekend who are keen birders. In view of the stormy weather coming in from the west, we took a trip over to Fairburn Ings near Leeds (RSPB reserve) and had a great few hours in very pleasant scenery, with a good tally of 40 species. That said, it was Sunday afternoon a...
Yesterday at Moelfre I watched a small black and white diving bird with bright red legs. All I can think is that it was a Black Guillemot, but the markings were not what I'd expect - more black than a juvenile, but more white than on an adult... Is there another diver I'm not aware of with that colouring and...
I've just come across this great site by artist and professor Dennis Hlynsky. This particular film features the flight patterns of a flock of starlings on and around a wire. Copy and paste this link. http://vimeo.com/32363204
I will soon be doing a talk at the primary school near where I work. I am looking for fairly basic identification handouts of urban and garden birds. If anyone has anything they deem might be suitable for this and are willing to donate it, can they please pm me. Cheers
This is currently proving to be the most popular telescope of the winter, with several folk coming in and choosing it in comparison to all others. The large 80mm objective with ED glass elements means high light transmissioneven on recent dull winters days. The scope is reasonably priced too with th...
Some of you may have signed this ,some may not- I think it is a great idea to issues licences to grouse moors with the option of revoking it if any laws are broken. If you care about the raptors that get killed on a regular basis please click/paste the link and sign your support. Pass it onto your friends as w...
OK - I'm not trying to persuade anyone from using mapmate for Submitting records. Just the opposite because, i suspect this software is less well suited. This is just another piece of free software I've discovered that might be of interest for those birders who get around more than others, or who ( lik...
Coverage of the issue on BBC North-west News @ 6:30pm today If you are on facebook, there's lots of coverage of the issues on: Say No To Fracking On Barton Moss
In short, does anyone know where to get one? Birdwatch magazine used to give one away every year but I stopped getting that magazine regularly a while ago. I keep an electronic record but just don't trust computers to keep it safe so just need a simple paper version.
Hi First post, so just saying hello. I've watched birds all my life and have recently taken to a bit of photography though not very good, so I will hopefully get some tips and help with bird id's on here. I live not too far from Penny Flash and saw the kittiwake the other day. Lastly, how do I post some pics fo...
Had an explore of some fields near to home an area off mode hill lane near Jct 4 M66 & Jct 18 M60.
The area is mainly horse paddocks with some marshland and flashes, looks to have potential.
A chirpy group of 12 Skylark (signs that spring is on its way) was the highlight for me.
Pied wag 10 in the fie...
MapMate is bird and wildlife recording software which has rapidly become the preferred method of record submission to the Greater Manchester Bird Recording Group. As sightings on this forum are not used in any official capacity (and so are not used for the county database or annual report or import...
Hi all, I know a lot of people on this forum know Dennis Atherton so I thought I would let you know he is giving an illustrated talk on the bird of Gambia at Bolton RSPB's January meeting. The talk will be held in the Millenium Chapel at Canon Slade school, Bradshaw Brow, Bolton on Thursday 9 January at 7.30...
