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  1. Osprey_watcher

    good news

    good news or not? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7489000.stm
  2. Osprey_watcher

    Fire threatens nesting birds

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7422276.stm
  3. Osprey_watcher

    Washington WWT

    This weekend I'm off on a stag do in Newcastle. We are staying 3.5 miles away from the WWT reserve at Washington, so while the others are playing golf or getting plastered in the bar I plan to visit the reserve on Saturday morning. Can anybody give me some idea of what I might see at this time...
  4. Osprey_watcher

    Today at work

    I work in an eight storey office block made mostly of glass. It's just opposite the Trafford Centre in Manchester and I regularly see a wide range of birds but today saw something special. I was on my way out to the lepers corner for my first fag of the day and overheard someone coming back in...
  5. Osprey_watcher

    Swallows on their way

    Over the past couple of days there has been a lot of swallow activity around here. Flocks of swallows can be seen passing through and pausing on roof tops and wires. As I write this there are 17 on the telephone wire right outside my home office window. Guess summer is over in England, if it...
  6. Osprey_watcher

    North Lancs and Cumbria

    We usually go up to Cumbria four or five times each year, mainly to look at the ospreys ( as you may guess from the name). this year with work commitments this weekend was the only two days I could be sure of until September. Set off about 7:00 am to call at Leighton Moss on the way. Bit of a...
  7. Osprey_watcher

    Scarlet butterfly ID please

    I don't know very much about butterflies only able to recognise the Red Admiral and the White Cabbage?? Today I saw a butterfly that was a bright scarlet (same colour as the banner above). It was about half the size of a ones I usually see. I couldn't see any markings other than the superb...
  8. Osprey_watcher

    Goose ID

    Today at my local nature reserve I observed a goose in the company of a Canada Goose that had me stumped. It was about the same size as the Canada, but its markings were totally different. It didn't have the black neck with a patch of white on it's throat. It's neck was light grey at the front...
  9. Osprey_watcher

    Ghostly Heron

    My day has just started off brilliantly for me. Just down the road from me a stream goes under the road and there are often Herons there early in the morning. This morning I had just set off for work when something big suddenly appeared just by the side of the car. It was a young Heron. I...
  10. Osprey_watcher

    Sprawk view

    I work on the top floor of an all glass 8 storey office block near the Trafford Centre. Yesterday afternoon I was sat in a meeting facing the windows when a sparrowhawk flew past about ten feet away and slightly below. I've never seen one that close and from that angle before. The others in the...
  11. Osprey_watcher

    Swallowfest

    I witnessed a fantastic spectacle today. There is haymaking going on in the field next to my house and this morning there was obviously a lot of insects. A mixed flock of swallows and house martins started arriving about 8:00 am. An hour or so later there were over a hundred flying over the...
  12. Osprey_watcher

    Wood Pigeon

    I have a couple of feeders with sunflower seeds. Normally I get Greenfinches and Collared doves. Because of the size of the collared doves I position the feeders so that the doves can sit on the arms coming off the pole and reach the holes. Today when I got back from some shopping I looked out...
  13. Osprey_watcher

    Where to go

    Don't know if this is the right place but...... I'm off work next week and fancy going out at least two days, probably three. One of the days will be to Leighton Moss, which is about 75 miles away from where I live near Manchester. Thats about as far as I want to travel. Anyone got any...
  14. Osprey_watcher

    Red image through bins

    I bought a pair of bins off e-bay about 18 months ago. They were a make I'd never heard of. Sakura. They've ok up till now but when I was using them in lakesearlier this month I couldn't get a good view of ospreys when the sun was high in the sky a in front of me. Not directly in front but a...
  15. Osprey_watcher

    Just like London buses

    What a brilliant weekend. Decided because of the good weather to go to the lakes. Went up a couple of weeks ago to watch the ospreys and the cloud was so low the eyrie was above the cloud line. Decided to stop at Leighton Moss on the way for a couple of hours and some breakfast. Walked into...
  16. Osprey_watcher

    GW sighting

    Just got back from one of them team building thingys at a posh hotel near Chester. Yesterday I popped out to satisfy one of my vices, i.e. having a fag. I was leaning on a rail when about 15 yards away a bird flew out of the nearby woods. I could tell it was something I hadn't seen very often...
  17. Osprey_watcher

    What do your neighbours think about your hobby

    I only have a small garden. About 18 square feet. In the garden I have two poles with feeders for sunflowers, mixed seed, nyger and two fat feeder. As well as this I have a bird table with a roof. I don't get many different kinds of birds, Collared Doves all year and in the summer house...
  18. Osprey_watcher

    Lake district osprey chicks

    Two of the three eggs have hatched within a few hours of each other. It was expected one may hatch with another about 24 hours later, but a chick arrived at 11pm last night and the next hatched just before 8am this morning. Wonder if the third will hatch? No-Ring brought breakfast for his wife...
  19. Osprey_watcher

    Starling for breakfast

    About ten minutes ago I was in the garden(or should that be jungle) mowing the elephant grass and filling the feeders and water bowls, when I heard a bird call I didn't recognise. When I looked up there was a flock off about thirty starlings flying towards me. They were making the calls that I...
  20. Osprey_watcher

    Black bird with white rump

    Just driving back to work when a bird flew across the road in front of me. It was going from a area of shrub to a wooded area. It was about the size of a blackbird and was either black or dark brown. I thought it was a blackbird until a saw it had white bar across the rump area. Anyone know what...
  21. Osprey_watcher

    Sakura bins

    Has anyone heard of this make? Seen some on e-bay at a reasonable price and would like to know more if poss.
  22. Osprey_watcher

    IS60 and warehouse express

    Ordered my IS60 plus 15-54 eyepiece at 10am yesterday. I paid the extra £4 for delivery before 12:30pm. The scope arrived at 10:50am today. Great servive from Warehouse Express. So I went out for a couple of hours to try it out. I must say I'm impressed. This is my first scope so I can't compare...
  23. Osprey_watcher

    Watergrove

    Just took delivery of my first ever scope today so decided to go out on my local patch at Watergrove reservoir to try it out. The highlight of the day was watching a sparrowhawk chasing a mistle thrush. Don't know if it caught it because they flew into pine trees and I lost sight of them. Two...
  24. Osprey_watcher

    Tripod and head for scope

    I need some advice please. I've just taken delivery of an Opticron IS60, but unfortunately it fit on the Hama tripod I use for my photography. Can anyone recommend a reasonable tripod with head, don't want to spend too much as I spent most of my spare money this month on the scope.
  25. Osprey_watcher

    Opticron 18-54x zoom for IS60

    I've just ordered an IS60 scope but unfortunately they didn't have the 15-45x pro zoom I wanted. Being an impatient chap and not wishing to wait I ordered the 18-54x zoom which was £20 cheaper. Does anyone know what kind of performance I can expect compared with the pro zoom?
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