• Welcome to BirdForum, the internet's largest birding community with thousands of members from all over the world. The forums are dedicated to wild birds, birding, binoculars and equipment and all that goes with it.

    Please register for an account to take part in the discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.
Where premium quality meets exceptional value. ZEISS Conquest HDX.

Search results

thxpress_search_the_forum Search Opus
  1. Prestdj

    mytholmroyd 2024

    Decorating today so just watching from the garden 6 herring gulls 1 cormorant 3 goosander 1 dipper 1 grey heron 1 great spotted woodpecker 1 mute swan flew west The mute swan is a great example of patch birding as it was my first in the village everything is relative 108 mute swan
  2. Prestdj

    mytholmroyd 2024

    A dawn walk down the Rochdale canal to look for yesterdays red throated diver Found the bird a short walk from home looking settled showing down to a few meters great views 107 red throated diver
  3. Prestdj

    mytholmroyd 2024

    After the mandarin some real birding today Headed up to withens clough res very cold up there with a biting wind A black redstart was feeding along the outflow stream a very showy bird calling a lot . A green woodpecker looked out of place over the moors A buzzard loafing around was soon...
  4. Prestdj

    mytholmroyd 2024

    Yesterday an early dog walk saw a male mandarin on the canal. A small population have been present a few miles away for at least 20 years. Brearley has flooded so looking good for gulls 103 mandarin
  5. Prestdj

    mytholmroyd 2024

    Todays morning dog walk produced a drake teal on the river Calder in the village 102 teal
  6. Prestdj

    mytholmroyd 2024

    30/10/2024 Hawfinch flew south west over the garden at 07:21 A few redwings over as well but very quiet the last few days 101 hawfinch
  7. Prestdj

    mytholmroyd 2024

    1 Canada Goose Branta canadensis common 2 Barnacle Goose Branta leucopsis 1 in the early part of the year with canada geese 3 Greylag Goose Anser anser 2 cragg vale 4 Pink-footed Goose Anser brachyrhynchus common, skiens over in winter with 2 grounded amongst canada geese...
  8. Prestdj

    mytholmroyd 2024

    yesterday after a bit of shopping the weather cleared so, off i went for a walk around 5 stock doves below old chamber farm 3 bramblings at daisy bank 2 mistle thrush dropped into the trees by great jumps looking like migrants 1 redwing feeding in a rowan with 6 passing overhead 1...
  9. Prestdj

    mytholmroyd 2024

    A cracking great egret flew west up the valley viewed from the kitchen !! 99 great egret
  10. Prestdj

    mytholmroyd 2024

    Last few early mornings redwings have been heading over great sound Also on the 15th October a few whooper swans headed east around 10pm calling 98 whooper swan
  11. Prestdj

    My small collection of binoculars

    l to r Bausch and Lomb elite 8x42 owned from new in 1991 still good despite being battered! going strong Meopta Meostar 8x42 Built like a tank but very heavy but a great piece of kit Bushnell elite 8x43 Very light compared to the meopta and imo better plus a beautiful design Bushnell...
  12. Prestdj

    mytholmroyd 2024

    Rubbish sketch of the warbler
  13. Prestdj

    mytholmroyd 2024

    Most of the past week looking for migrants Lots of chiffchaffs a single blackcap 8 wheatears and small skiens of pink footed geese passing over Today bright and cold so off walking again 2 little owls and 4 ravens Just near home a bird called from a sycamore……yellow browed warbler amongst a...
  14. Prestdj

    mytholmroyd 2024

    Yesterday A good walk with pinkfooted geese over In the mist so unable to see them Lots of chiffchaffs along the way also Siskin Got to the moorland edge…. Out of all the dry stone walls just one had the following Whinchat 3 Wheatear 1 Stonechat 4 Reed bunting 1 The whinchats were...
  15. Prestdj

    Dream day at Dungeness

    never been but love to go driven past a few times
  16. Prestdj

    mytholmroyd 2024

    yesterday a 9 mile walk in heavy rain got me soaked to the skin but still managed to record meadow pipit 100+ grounded skylark 8 linnet 60+ mistle thrush 14 kestrel looking fed up chiffchaff 5 goldcrest 20+ lesser black backed gull 1 ad se this morning dog walk dipper 2 grey wagtail...
  17. Prestdj

    mytholmroyd 2024

    forgot reed bunting so 94 reed bunting
  18. Prestdj

    Falco ID - Portugal 2024

    elanoras falcon if im correct
  19. Prestdj

    Birding Hell to which you've subjected non-birders

    i once took my wife to spurn in autumn after a drive of 4 hours she just said 'its shit' and i couldnt blame her spurns clicky
  20. Prestdj

    Need a new scope setup, what can I get for around £500?

    Which one was the broken scope ?
  21. Prestdj

    mytholmroyd 2024

    a great walk today after the weekend in north wales (drove past the hudsonian godwit twice and couldnt be bothered to stop to look) 2 wheatears along dicks lane were much wanted for the year so well pleased also small numbers of meadow pipits and 2 nice reed buntings a nice area withens clough...
  22. Prestdj

    New APM "wide angle APO" models -- rebadged Banner Cloud?

    for the price one can get a decent used trusted brand of binocular
  23. Prestdj

    mytholmroyd 2024

    well no migrants seen monday which i found annoying despite a 9 mile walk, off to wales in the van at the weekend
  24. Prestdj

    mytholmroyd 2024

    Interesting weekend with barn owl seen from the garden on Friday evening and on Saturday a little egret flew low west over the moors but very little else Today looks good for migrants fingers crossed
  25. Prestdj

    mytholmroyd 2024

    yesterday evening after fish and chips at hollingworth lake (tasty) i sat with the scope in the garden watching the moors a nice hour buzzard 4 kestrel 1 raven 2 short eared owl hunting was new for year having not seen one last year very nice still house martins over the house and a few...
Back
Top