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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast
Hi All, Sorry to post here but know a lot of you guys are well networked! Just a heads up that we have a good number of jobs on-line at the moment including part-time, full-time, temporary and permanent in the Greater Manchester & Merseyside areas. Its a great organisation to work for and... -
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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast
Visited Burton Mere Wetlands yesterday nice to see a few familiar faces, couple of highlights for me inc: 3 spotted redshank 1 greenshank several avocets little ringed plover blue morph snow goose little gull came into roost at about 5pm black-tailed skimmer also a report of a cuckoo (not seen... -
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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast
And what direction where the geese headed? -
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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast
RSPB Jobs in NW Just getting the message out there ... two very nice jobs within the region http://www.rspb.org.uk/vacancies/details/343261-membership-development-officer http://www.rspb.org.uk/vacancies/details/343260-membership-development-officer Feel free to ask any questions... -
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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast
Just in case any of you missed these .... there are a few RSPB jobs going at the moment .... from entry level jobs to ones with management responsibilities http://www.rspb.org.uk/vacancies/details/337332-information-assistant-2-posts... -
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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast
Visitor Officer Internship - Dee Estuary We need an excellent all-round person, who wants to experience working in a large team, on one of the RSPB's newest nature reserves. This is a varied and challenging volunteer role experiencing environmental tourism and visitor services. You'll be... -
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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast
Hi People, Just to let you know of an new event happening in January at RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands http://www.rspb.org.uk/events/details.aspx?id=tcm:9-337467 An chance to go around "IMF2" which is way beyond the main scrape. Should be particularly interesting for those who want to learn about... -
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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast
2 short earedf owls at Burton Mere Wetlands also -
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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast
2cy male hen harrier merlin water rail 1000+ teal Todays highlights from RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands -
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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast
Water Rail has been showing ridiculously well again .... -
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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast
Not sure .... fingers crossed -
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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast
Thanks Himalaya, did post a different one, wish it was slightly better quality ... both birds did acquire breeding plumage last year but one disappeared .... -
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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast
Just a note to say Burton Mere Wetlands is open as usual despite local road closures http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/placestovisit/deeestuary/b/deeestuary-blog/archive/2012/12/17/business-open-as-usual.aspx Todays sightings include water rail, 1 pink-footed goose and male hen harrier ... so far -
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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast
Today's highlights from Burton Mere Wetlands: 2cy male hen harrier flushed a jack snipe water rail siskin c.100 -
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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast
Dancing on Ice -
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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast
2 Great white egret came into roost at Burton Mere Wetlands last night again 4:15pm. This morning they were on the ice dancing! -
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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast
The walk saw two great white egrets coming into roost with over 100 little egrets :) Few photos and recent sightings at http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/placestovisit/deeestuary/b/deeestuary-blog/archive/2012/12/11/dusk-walk-delivers.aspx Also Like our Facebook page or follow us on Twitter... -
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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast
Been a while but a decent day today at RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands: plenty of goldcrest with at least 5 in one area and 2 in another 2cy hen harrier male stonechat and water rail right outside the hide plenty of siskin peregrine hunting masses of teal and lapwing Monday Dusk Walk has just gone... -
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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast
Of interest to readers of this forum http://vimeo.com/52456841 footage form the new bird watching facility at Point of Ayr, Flintshire www.rspb.org.uk/pointofayr for more details of free guided walk on Saturday -
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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast
Pectoral sandpiper is still showing today http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/placestovisit/deeestuary/b/deeestuary-blog/archive/2012/09/13/burton-mere-wetlands-has-pecs-appeal-2-years-running.aspx#.UFG05u6Nu7c.facebook -
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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast
FTR we had 4 marsh harriers and 5 spotted redshanks at BMW on that day -
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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast
Winge tagged marsh harrier hunting at Burton Mere Wetlands this morning ... still awaiting confrimation of the letter on the green tags http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/placestovisit/deeestuary/b/deeestuary-blog/archive/2012/08/13/gold-rush-on-the-dee.aspx -
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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast
2 juvenile marsh harriers again at RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands ... any thoughts on where they come from? Having spoke to Leighton Moss, there young have not left yet .... -
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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast
This morning at Burton Mere Wetlands - 4 spotted flycatcher at least in tops of Oak trees in car park - given away by their harsh, hipitched call. They were feeding in a group of other passerines including chaffinches, willow warbler, long-tailed tits, blue tits, great tits. Yesterday saw the... -
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Cheshire And Wirral Birding: Hills, Lowland and Coast
No probs. In other news the great white egret has put in an appearance at BMWetlands this morning. And I'm not sure but there may be a hole in th efence at a nearby Zoo cos we've had 1 black swan and 2 sacred ibis! ....... Although the black swan does look very tired!