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- Fri Jul 13, 2012 4:06 pm
- Forum: 2012 Recent Sightings Submissions
- Topic: Chisnall Evening Walk 12.7.12
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2357
Hobby.
Ive just had a good look at one of my birds book titled The Hobby by Anthony Chapman ( well worth purchasing) , going off the photos it looks like a adult bird ( red showing on the legs) it takes around 2 months from eggs being laid to the birds leaving the nest which would suggest to early for a ju...
- Fri Jul 13, 2012 6:31 am
- Forum: 2012 Recent Sightings Submissions
- Topic: Chisnall Evening Walk 12.7.12
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2357
Evening walk.
Spotted a single Tern over the BMX track as i was walking off , thanks for the walk Nora .
- Thu Jul 12, 2012 5:40 pm
- Forum: Out of Area Sightings
- Topic: Hummimg bird hawk moth
- Replies: 0
- Views: 738
Hummimg bird hawk moth
Spotted one today at Leyland .
- Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:22 pm
- Forum: 2012 Recent Sightings Submissions
- Topic: mawdesley moss.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 541
mawdesley moss.
Just got back from the moss were i was hoping for some owls , when i arrived a single barn owl was hunting but soon went out of sight another bird appeared later on also 3 cormorant , 2 kestrel , flock of around 20 swallow , and whitethroat still singing in near darkness.
- Wed Jul 11, 2012 6:15 pm
- Forum: 2012 Recent Sightings Submissions
- Topic: Croston railway station area.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 497
Croston railway station area.
Heard a spotted a single redpoll flying over , garden warbler singing near the railway bridge , plenty of house martin feeding chicks on the new estate near the railway bridge , 3 oystercatcher flew over .
- Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:23 pm
- Forum: 2012 Recent Sightings Submissions
- Topic: Croston/mawdesley moss .
- Replies: 0
- Views: 458
Croston/mawdesley moss .
A post breeding flock of around 40 lapwing were on a flooded wheat field as was a single heron and 3 mallard , several kestrels were hunting and a single buzzard was calling out regular , the suprise of the evening was a single peregrine which appeared to be hunting swallows before flying up to the ...
- Sun Jul 08, 2012 4:07 pm
- Forum: 2012 Recent Sightings Submissions
- Topic: Croston and Mawdesley Moss 8.7.12
- Replies: 1
- Views: 695
Croston/mawdesley moss .
I spotted a flock of over 20 tree sparrow and 3 buzzard also spotted the flock of mistle thrush the other day but forgot to post it .
- Fri Jul 06, 2012 11:17 am
- Forum: 2012 Recent Sightings Submissions
- Topic: Flooded field near buy a bike on the A49/back lane/parkhall
- Replies: 0
- Views: 443
Flooded field near buy a bike on the A49/back lane/parkhall
Not a single bird on the flooded field this morning only plenty of water , back lane several lapwing and 1 oystercatcher , park hall lake , several mallard , 2 adult coot and 3 juv , 1 mute swan .
- Thu Jul 05, 2012 8:58 pm
- Forum: 2012 Recent Sightings Submissions
- Topic: Eccleston knowles wood area , mawdesley moss.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 511
Eccleston knowles wood area , mawdesley moss.
Knowles wood area, tree sparrows ( mating) , swallows ( mating) , fem sparrowhawk regular , gs pecker , nuthatch , treecreeper , goldcrest , buzzard , kestrel , pied wag , grey wag , s thrush , m thrush , oystercatcher , bullfinch , highlight was a pair of what looked like common terns which flew ov...
- Tue Jul 03, 2012 8:21 pm
- Forum: Out of Area Sightings
- Topic: Parbold Hobby.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 701
Parbold Hobby.
Had a great view of a Hobby this afternoon , the alarm call of the swallow made me look upwards as the Hobby dashed by , the majority of all my hobby sightings have happened this way were ive heard the alarm call before seeing the bird.
- Tue Jul 03, 2012 8:04 pm
- Forum: 2012 Recent Sightings Submissions
- Topic: Possilbe Orchid.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1358
Plant id .
Gary ive been told by one of our members the plant is Hedge Woundwort .
- Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:20 pm
- Forum: 2012 Recent Sightings Submissions
- Topic: Possilbe Orchid.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1358
Possilbe Orchid.
Ive put a couple of photos on the second page of my gallery of the latest plant id required the flowers were growing near a ditch in a traditional hay meadow in Eccleston.
- Mon Jul 02, 2012 6:33 pm
- Forum: 2012 Recent Sightings Submissions
- Topic: Flooded field near buy a bike on the A49.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 530
Flooded field near buy a bike on the A49.
Single Little ringed plover present this evening .
- Sun Jul 01, 2012 9:31 am
- Forum: 2012 Recent Sightings Submissions
- Topic: Eccleston Hobby , tawny owl chicks and more!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1033
Tawny owl .
Spoke to someone last night who witnessed a young tawny owl being fed by a adult on a telegraph wire near his house in the last few days ( bannister lane area Eccleston)
- Sat Jun 30, 2012 2:27 pm
- Forum: 2012 Recent Sightings Submissions
- Topic: mawdesley moss.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 593
mawdesley moss.
Got caught in a thunderstorm which maybe silenced any quail but managed to spot a pair of grey partridge , 5 singing corn bunting , 2 juv little owl with a adult but the highlight was a garden warbler in full song near the little owl sight .