DIVERS

Red-throated Diver, Diggle Flash, 25.03.1990 (John Tymon)

scanned image from a conventional film photograph

Red-throated Diver, Diggle Flash, 25.03.1990 (John Tymon)

scanned image from a conventional film photograph

Red-throated Diver, Diggle Flash, 25.03.1990 (John Tymon)

scanned image from a conventional film photograph

Red-throated Diver, Diggle Flash, March 1990 (Pete Berry)

stayed here a while after moving from Pennington Flash. ()

Red-throated Diver, Diggle Flash, March 1990 (Pete Berry)

not often you catch them hauled out of the water! (scanned image from a conventional film photograph)

Black-throated Diver, Penington Flash, November 1985 (John Tymon)

scanned from a coventional film photograph

Great Northern Diver, Rumworth, 09.11.80 (John Rayner)

Great Northern Diver, Withins Reservoir, October 2003 (Adrian Dancy)

in full breeding plumage, conventional film image digitally scanned

Great Northern Diver, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 22.11.06 (Rob Adderley)

Great Northern Diver, Audenshaw, 22.11.06 (Rob Adderley)

a cracking immature

Great Northern Diver, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 22.11.06 (Rob Adderley)

Great Northern Diver, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 28.11.06 (Rob Adderley)

in nice bright sunlight!

Great Northern Diver, Audenshaw Reservoir, 28.11.06 (Rob Adderley)

Great Northern Diver, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 01.12.06 (Rob Adderley)

a nice adult, joining the juvenile already present and just 2 of a large displacement of the species throughout the country at this time

Great Northern Divers, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 01.12.06 (Rob Adderley)

the 2 birds together (adult on the left, juv on the right) and unsurprisingly the first ever photo of 2 together in the county

Great Northern Divers, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 01.12.06 (Tom McKinney)

the 2 together again, but not exactly getting on!

Great Northern Divers, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 20.12.06 (Rob Adderley)

both adult and first-winter, getting on a little better?

Great Northern Divers, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 26.12.06 (Rob Adderley)

finally Rob achieves the images he's been after and what great shots they are too-well done Rob!

Great Northern Divers, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 26.12.06 (Rob Adderley)

Great Northern Diver, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 26.12.06 (Rob Adderley)

a particularly stunning shot of the adult bird

Great Northern Diver, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 24.02.07 (Rob Adderley)

a new juvenile (?), with much more adult like scapulars than it's predecessor.

Great Northern Diver, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 24.02.07 (Rob Adderley)

a new bird or the same as earlier in the month?

Great Northern Diver, Audenshaw, 07.04.07 (Paul Hammond)

it is infact the same juv as previously and here it struggled for several minutes with this Perch, thrashing it in the

water before re-positioning it and swallowing, then carried on diving for more!

Great Northern Diver, Audenshaw Reservoir, 07.04.07 (Paul Hammond)

Leach's Petrel, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 27.09.87 (Rob Adderley)

one of 2 birds present at the time, photos taken before 'digital' with a trusty old telephoto lens!

Leach's Petrel, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 27.09.87 (Roy Travis)

conventional film photo digitally scanned

Leach's Petrel, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 27.09.87 (Roy Travis)

conventional film photo digitally scanned

Leach's Petrel, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 27.09.87 (Roy Travis)

conventional film photo digitally scanned

Leach's Petrel, Healey Hell, 11.12.06 (Richard Whittle)

found unfortunately dead by Richard at the bottom of the cellar steps at the Healey Dell rangers office

Leach's Petrel, Healey Dell, 11.12.06 (Richard Whittle)

a tragic end to a seriously storm blown county rarity

Gannet, Watergrove Reservoir, 07.07.07 (Chris Johnson)

a cracking find by patch watcher Steve Atkins

Gannet, Watergrove Reservoir, 07.07.07 (Chris Johnson)

notice the immature black secondaries and the adult type white ones

Gannet, Watergrove Reservoir, 07.07.07 (Chris Johnson)

note the immature type black central tail feathers

Gannet, Watergrove Reservoir, 07.07.07 (Rob Adderley)

a sub-adult, 3rd or 4th summer

Gannet, Watergrove Reservoir, 07.07.07 (Rob Adderley)

Gannet, Watergrove Reservoir, 07.07.07 (Judith Smith)

Continental Cormorant, Horrocks' Flash, 25.01.06 (Ian McKerchar)

a sinensis bird showing the characteristic gular pouch angle, in full breeding dress (complete with nuchal crest) and very nearly full courtship colours with only a small amount of red yet to attain below the eye

Shag, Hollingworth Lake, 31.10.06 (Rob Adderley)

an excellent county record and a credit to the finder and site recorder, Simon Hitchen

Shag, Hollingworth Lake, 31.10.06 (Rob Adderley)

Shag, Hollingworth Lake, 01.11.06 (Steve Collins)

Shag, Hollingworth Lake, 31.10.06 (Rob Adderley)

Shag, Hollingworth Lake, 03.11.06 (Simon Hitchen)

Bittern, Pennington Flash, 10.02.06 (Rob Adderley)

taken very early morning

Bittern, Pennington Flash, 10.02.06 (Rob Adderley)

Bittern, Scotsman Flash, 21.05.07 (Jake Moot)

a videograb of a bird that obligingly flew round the flash afew times infront of the photographer

Bittern, Pennington Flash, 13.07.04 (Arthur Doyle)

Digiscoped image of the bird form Teal Hide

Night Heron (Rob Adderley)

Little Egret, Sale Water Park, 21.08.98 (Neil Calbrade)

a scanned image form a conventional photograph

Little Egrets, Rumworth, 14.08.06 (Ian McKerchar)

2 of the 3 birds present, a group of 3 being a new county record!

Little Egret, Rumowrth, 14.08.06 (Ian McKerchar)

the 3 birds, originally found by Rob Adderley at Hope Carr Reserve (although 2 of which were at Pennington before that) moved to Rumworth, 2 of which stayed for some time!

Little Egret, Rumworth, 14.08.06 (Ian McKerchar)

Little Egrets, Rumworth, 14.08.06 (Ian McKerchar)

2 of the 3 birds present, unfortunately the third bird was very uncooperative and refused to join the others for a photo!

Great White Egret, Dover Basin, 31.07.95 (Neil Calbrade)

a scanned image from a conventional photograph

Grey Heron, Clewes Park, 10.09.06 (Adrian Dancy)

Spoonbill, Pennington Flash, 07.06.01 (Ian McKerchar)

from new hide, an early digiscoping attempt using a 2.1m pixel camera

Little Grebe, Pennington Flash, 17.09.06 (Mike Baron)

Little Grebes, Elton Reservoir, 24.07.07 (Adrian Dancy)

the chick is just visable hitching a lift on the parents back!

Great Crested Grebe, Elton Reservoir, 01.05.06 (Adrian Dancy)

Great Crested Grebe, Pennington Flash, 04.05.07 (John Tymon)

Great Crested Grebe, Pennington Flash, 10.07.07 (John Tymon)

a juvenile bird

Great Crested Grebes, Pennington Flash, 01.09.07 (John Tymon)

adult and juvenile together

Great Crested Grebes, Pennington Flash, 01.09.07 (John Tymon)

adult and just surfacing juvenile, with Black-headed Gull in the background

Great Crested Grebes, Pennington Flash, 01.09.07 (John Tymon)

a juvenile bird

Great Crested Grebe, Pennington Flash, 08.09.07 (John Tymon)

an immature bird (obviously!)

Red-necked Grebe, Pennington Flash, 12.02.90 (John Tymon)

scanned image from a conventional film photograph

Red-necked Grebe, Hollingworth Lake, 01.12.93 (Neil Calbrade)

a scanned image from a conventional photograph

Red-necked Grebe, Pennington Flash, 10.11.05 (Judith Smith)

a nice comparrison with Tufted Ducks

Red-necked Grebe, Elton Reservoir, 11.12.05 (Adrian Dancy)

a different individual to the earlier Pennington bird

Red-necked Grebe, Elton Reservoir, 11.12.05 (Adrian Dancy)

Red-necked Grebe, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 29.07.06 (Rob Adderley)

cracking breeding plumaged, mid-summer bird

Red-necked Grebe, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 29.07.06 (Rob Adderley)

Slavonian Grebe, Pennington Flash, late 1980's (John Tymon)

scanned image from a conventional film photograph

Slavonian Grebe, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 16.04.05 (Rob Adderley)

Black-necked Grebes, Private Site, 1992 (Pete Berry)

the first successul breeding by the species in the county, here with 2 very small young (scanned image taken from a conventional film photograph)

Black-necked Grebe, Pennington Flash, 22.03.06 (Rob Adderley)

Black-necked Grebe, Scotsmans Flash, 23.03.07 (Paul Hammond)

a cracking bird and the first of the 2007 season

Black-necked Grebe, Scotsmans Flash, 26.03.07 (Judith Smith)

Black-necked Grebe, Scotsmans Flash, 26.03.07 (Gary Gorner)

Black-necked Grebe, Scotsman Flash, 28.03.07 (Mike Baron)

Black-necked Grebe, Pennington Flash, 07.09.07 (John Tymon)

a juvenile bird

Black-necked Grebe, Pennington Flash, 07.09.07 (John Tymon)

a juvenile bird

Black-necked Grebe, Pennington Flash, 11.09.07 (Rob Adderley)

with a Tufted Duck