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  1. Fieldfare

    Fieldfare

    We have had 30+ Fieldfares and Redwings (Winter thrushes) in Manchester, on Store Street, behind Piccadilly station this Xmas day ! FAB ! Photos not great and taken on a 300D with Pentax and Novoflex(crap)lenses ? This is a Fieldfare ! Long legs evident ! The local blackbirds kept trying to...
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  2. 2 Redwings in tree -Manchester

    2 Redwings in tree -Manchester

    We have had 30+ Fieldfares and Redwings (Winter thrushes) in Manchester, on Store Street, behind Piccadilly station this Xmas day ! FAB ! Photos not great and taken on a 300D with Pentax and Novoflex(crap) lenses ? Roberta
    • Roberta Jane
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  3. Fieldfare in Manchester behind Piccadilly station Xmas day !

    Fieldfare in Manchester behind Piccadilly station Xmas day !

    We have had 30+ Fieldfares and Redwings (Winter thrushes) in Manchester, on Store Street, behind Piccadilly station this Xmas day ! FAB ! Photos not great and taken on a 300D with Pentax and Novoflex(crap)lenses ? Roberta
    • Roberta Jane
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  4. Roberta Jane

    Ross's Goose Martin Mere, and Red-throated Diver in Wigan

    Red Throated Diver Mark and I went up on Sunday afternoon (5th) and saw it too ! Never seen one and didnt get a really close look but thro his scope it was good enough ! Think we met the Area bird recoder too who had a 2X and a 1000mm lens on his digital camera. Was a lovely afternoon and a...
  5. Roberta Jane

    Birds around Manchester

    More birds around Manchester I'm just coming to the end of a years contract working in City Tower in Piccadilly Gardens on the 13th floor and we see the Peregines almost daily. Mostly a brief glimpse as they whizz past, but earlier this month we saw the parents enticing the juveniles into the...
  6. Roberta Jane

    Manchester Peregrines - New project showing live footage in Exchange Square

    More Manchester Peregrines Hi I'm just coming to the end of a years contract working in City Tower in Piccadilly Gardens on the 13th floor and we see the Peregines almost daily. Mostly a brief glimpse as they whizz past, but earlier this month we saw the parents enticing the juveniles into the...
  7. Roberta Jane

    Cuckoo

    Hi, Hi, We have had a far off glimse of a cuckoo on Astley moss too. First left over the bridge as you drive in and it was in the tree tops on the other side of the fields. We have seen Green woodpeckers at Moore reserve near Warrington regularly, usually in the trees to the right of the road...
  8. Roberta Jane

    Birds around Manchester

    Well for 2007 .... Peregirnes breeding Near Victoria station... Black redstarts in China town .... Possible Olivaceous warbler there too (btw I'm certain it was the one I saw previously on Tobin St behing Piccadilly station in July - big beak + warbler shaped ?) Goldfinches in Piccadilly...
  9. Roberta Jane

    Birds & Blooms USA magazines

    hi, Does anyone want 20 odd Birds & Blooms magazines ? My partner gets them from his Aunt in the USA and we have 20 odd to dispose of ? Its a general gardens and birds colour magazine with loads of pictures. USA birds are very colourful ! Would recommend collection fron Manchester as the...
  10. Roberta Jane

    Hi again from Manchester !

    Hello again all ! I have re-activated my membership again. I live in Manchester and have a bird watching boyfriend, Mark. Talk here is about the 2 Peregrines nesting on a city centre tower block. We havent seen them yet but will go looking again soon. However, I was horrified today to see...
  11. Roberta Jane

    Birds around Manchester

    If you read my previous posting there was an area of disued land next to the Rochdale canal where I saw sparrow wagtails thrushes and balckbirds and blue tits maybe even a black cap ! this summer. Well its all tinned off now for building by the council and they've cut all the trees down too ! -...
  12. Roberta Jane

    Birds around Manchester

    HI we tired Jennets Lane and New MOss reserve but saw very little at all at Jennets La! Saw some grey partridges on the farmers track opposite that disused yard at New Moss just B4 we left though and a couple of Kestrels. Heard lots of little chirrups form unidentified flying brown birds too...
  13. Roberta Jane

    Birds around Manchester

    Hi all !...Well we've had a look around Dale St and Ducie St., to no avail..I think all the development may have scared the Blk Redstarts away ?..Still havent seen any Green woodies yet but may go looking again later today....However, Mark and I have both spotted a Raptor of some type around the...
  14. Roberta Jane

    Birds around Manchester

    Thanks all ! Will try these sites out ! Jane
  15. Roberta Jane

    Birds around Manchester

    Hi Mark here(Jane's b/f). Thanks for the info Saluki, unfortunately with neither of us originating from Manchester our knowledge of the local geography is a bit sketchy so if u give us a bit more detail as to how to get to the places u mention we'd be very grateful. We have been to Pennington...
  16. Roberta Jane

    Birds around Manchester

    Hmm dunno it was very light in colour mostly white and the same size as the black headed gull. Definite yellow beak and no white patch on head. Swooped around and dived on the lake fishing ! Off hunting green woodpeckers tomorrow ! Went looking for the escaped booted eagle up in Royton, Oldham...
  17. Roberta Jane

    Birds around Manchester

    I don't think it was a little Tern because it had a completely black head above the beak and it was nearly as big as the Black headed gull it was chasing off. I'm entertaining hopes it might have been a rare one but it was probably an arctic or common tern
  18. Roberta Jane

    Birds around Manchester

    HI...Ever seen Green Woodpeckers around Manchester my b/f Mark wants to see one and hasn't yet ! As for the Man U v Lpool thing..I can print here wot I think about em both..Its only sport after all ! Jane
  19. Roberta Jane

    Birds around Manchester

    Hmm B4 this footie thing gets nasty....back to the birds....Johnny 1 which station ? Piccadilly or Victoria ? I live right by Piccadilly station.havent seen waxwings or a Black redstart...will look again though ! We wnt up to Leighton Moss in N.Lancs last week and although we didnt see a...
  20. Roberta Jane

    Birds around Manchester

    Have already done so Andrew Theres an area between and alongside the Rochdale and Ashton Canals thats looks ideal but seems only populated by pigeons and the occasional linnet ! By the way, I cant say I like your Icon/avatar as I am and always have been a true Blue ! C'mon you blue boys !
  21. Roberta Jane

    Blackbird in Piccadilly triangle pic

    Heres a picture of a blackbird taken thro a russian scope out of my 4th floor window in Whitworth St. He's in a tree in the Piccadilly triangle. I had blue tits visiting my seed feeder outs ide th ewindow earlier but they seem to have gone now :-( I do see the occasional green finch and thrush...
  22. Roberta Jane

    Birds around Manchester

    I'm quite new to birding but mark and I have seen quite a few nice birds around Manchester this year.... I work in Brookside business park Chadderton and the Wince brook runs thro it. Regular birds on the brook are a female grey wagtail, a dunnock, long tail tits, and at the moment later in the...
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