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Little Tern, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 17.05.08 (Steve Collins)
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Sandwich Tern, Hollingworth Lake, 22.08.05 (Simon Hitchen)
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Sandwich Terns, Hollingworth Lake, 22.08.05 (Simon Hitchen)
2 of a family party consisting of 2 adults and a single juvenile |
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Sandwich Tern, Hollingworth Lake, 03.04.07 (Simon Hitchen)
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Sandwich Tern, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 25.06.07 (Rob Adderley)
no doubt checking the motorway signs, trying to work out how on earth it ended up at at Audenshaw! |
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Arctic Terns, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 07.05.06 (Rob Adderley)
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Arctic Terns, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 04.08.06 (Rob Adderley)
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Arctic Tern, Hollingworth Lake, April 2007 (Simon Hitchen)
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Arctic Tern, Hollingworth Lake, April 2007 (Simon Hitchen)
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Common Tern, Pennington Flash, 18.05.07 (John Tymon)
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Common Terns, Horrock's Flash, 16.06.07 (Judith Smith)
4 young birds |
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Common Tern, Elton Reservoir, 30.05.07 (Adrian Dancy)
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Common Tern, Pennington Flash, 02.08.08 (John Tymon)
a colour-ringed individual |
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Common Tern, Elton Reservoir, 30.08.08 (Adrian Dancy)
a juvenile bird |
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Common Tern, Elton Reservoir, 30.08.08 (Adrian Dancy)
a juvenile bird |
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Black Tern, Piethorne Valley, 27.08.97 (Neil Calbrade)
a nice juvenile, a scanned image from a conventional photograph |
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Black Tern, Pennington Flash, 01.05.07 (Rob Adderley)
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Black Tern, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 21.07.07 (Rob Adderley)
one of two moulting adults present |
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Black Tern, Pennington Flash, 15.08.07 (Annette Cutts)
juvenile bird |
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Black Tern, Pennington Flash, 01.05.08 (Rob Adderley)
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Black Tern, Horrock's Flash, 04.05.08 (Geoff Hargreaves)
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Black Tern, Elton Reservoir, 04.08.08 (Paul Wilson)
a juvenile bird |
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Black Tern, Elton Reservoir, 04.08.08 (Paul Wilson)
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Black Tern, Elton Reservoir, 07.08.08 (Adrian Dancy)
juvenile |
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Black Tern, Elton Reservoir, 07.08.08 (Adrian Dancy)
juvenile |
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Black Tern, Elton Reservoir, 30.08.08 (Adrian Dancy)
a juvenile bird |
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Black Tern, Elton Reservoir, 30.08.08 (Adrian Dancy)
a juvenile bird |
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Black Tern, Elton Reservoir, 30.08.08 (Adrian Dancy)
a juvenile bird |
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Black Tern, Elton Reservoir, 30.08.08 (Adrian Dancy)
a juvenile bird |
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White-winged Black Tern, Pennington Flash, 13.09.99 (Neil Calbrade)
a juvenile, scanned image from a conventional photograph |
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White-winged Black Tern, Elton Reservoir, 25.09.08 (Jill Islam)
Juvenile |
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White-winged Black Tern, Elton Reservoir, 25.09.08 (Jill Islam)
Juvenile |
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White-winged Black Tern, Elton Reservoir, 25.09.08 (Jill Islam)
Juvenile |
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White-winged Black Tern, Elton Reservoir, 25.09.08 (Jill Islam)
Juvenile |
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White-winged Black Tern, Heaton Park Reservoir, 26.09.08 (Adrian Dancy)
The same juvenile bird as at Elton Reservoir 26.09.08 |
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White-winged Black Tern, Heaton Park Reservoir, 26.09.08 (Adrian Dancy)
The same juvenile bird as at Elton Reservoir 26.09.08 |
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White-winged Black Tern, Heaton Park Reservoir, 26.09.08 (Adrian Dancy)
The same juvenile bird as at Elton Reservoir 26.09.08 |
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White-winged Black Tern, Heaton Park Reservoir, 26.09.08 (Adrian Dancy)
The same juvenile bird as at Elton Reservoir 26.09.08 |
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Little Auk, Didsbury, 13.11.07 (Rob Adderley)
found in a back garden on the 12th it was placed on a nearby pond but was unfortunately found dead the next day when birders arrived! |
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Little Auk, Didsbury, 13.11.07 (Rob Adderley)
What a sad end for such a cracking bird and extreme county rarity |
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Little Auk, Didsbury, 13.11.07 (Simon Warford)
here the photographer attempts to deceive us into thinking it's still alive and flapping it's wings on it's own- no, you can't have it! |
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Guillemot, Sale Water Park, March 1990 (Pete Berry)
only the 2nd county record (scanned image from a conventional film photograph) |
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Guillemot, Sale Water Park, March 1990 (Pete Berry)
this bird stayed from the 2nd to the 6th then disappeared, only to reappear afew days later, floating upside down and bloated- poor thing! (scanned image from a conventional film photograph) |
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Tawny Owl, Astley Bridge, 18.04.07 (Adrian Dancy)
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Little Owl, Irlam Moss, 01.08.07 (Steve Nelson)
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Little Owl, Goyt Hall Farm, Lower Bredbury, 12.09.07 (Rob Adderley)
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Little Owl, Birtle, 23.03.08 (Paul Cliff)
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Little Owl, Birtle, 24.03.08 (Paul Cliff)
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Barn Owl, Tandle Hills, 2007 (Steve Collins)
this bird clearly shows leather 'ankle straps' which were only noticeable from the photos |
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Long-eared Owls, Daisy Nook, 13.01.91 (Roy Travis)
Conventional film image digitally scanned |
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Short-eared Owl, Didsbury, 25.01.81 (John Rayner)
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Nightjar, Astley Moss, 08.08.07 (Mike McKerchar)
picked up in Trafford and handed in to RSPCA Inspector and county birder Paul Heaton, an attempt to release the bird was made on Astley Moss but it didn't want to go! So it was taken back into care for the night. |
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Nightjar, Astley Moss, 08.08.07 (Adrian Dancy)
an adult female, aged by the pale greyish tips to the inner primaries and the secondaries and lack of white spots on the inner webs of the outer 3 primaries indicates a female |
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Nightjar, Astley Moss, 08.08.07 (Adrian Dancy)
a stunning bird |
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Nightjar, Astley Moss, 08.08.07 (Adrian Dancy)
unfortunately it appeared to content to sit on Paul's hand! |
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Nightjar, Astley Moss, 08.08.07 (Adrian Dancy)
how it should look |
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Swift, Birtle, Bury, 17.06.07 (Paul Cliff)
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Swift, Birtle, Bury, 17.06.07 (Paul Cliff)
homeing in on the Gnat on the left! |
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Swift, Elton Reservoir, 15.05.08 (Adrian Dancy)
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Swift, Pennington Flash, 19.07.08 (John Tymon)
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Alpine Swift, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 03.05.08 (Steve Collins)
a fantastic county mega! |
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Alpine Swift, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 03.05.08 (Steve Collins)
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Alpine Swift, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 03.05.08 (Steve Collins)
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Stock Doves, Higher Chelburn, April 2007 (Simon Hitchen)
very good birds in this area! |
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Stock Dove, Pennington Flash, 05.06.08 (John Tymon)
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Cuckoo, Middle Bank, 29.04.08 (Rob Adderley)
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Cuckoo, Old Trafford, 08.06.08 (James Jervis)
found in a household garage! |
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Kingfisher, Pennington Flash, 23.10.05 (Mike Baron)
digiscoped with Leica 62mm and Nikon 4500 coolpix |
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Kingfisher, Pennington Flash, 29.09.07 (Trevor Ogden)
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Kingfisher, Pennington Flash, 20.06.08 (Jon Taverner)
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Ring-necked Parakeet, Cheadle Hulme, 31.01.82 (John Rayner)
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Ring-necked Parakeet, Rusholme, 08.07.07 (Rob Smallwood)
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Ring-necked Parakeet, Rusholme, 08.07.07 (Rob Smallwood)
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Ring-necked Parakeets, Rusholme, 08.07.07 (Rob Smallwood)
adult feeding a juv |
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Ring-necked Parakeets, Chorlton Park, 11.10.07 (Rob Smallwood)
an immature bird |
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Ring-necked Parakeets, Chorlton Park, 11.10.07 (Rob Smallwood)
an adult |
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Ring-necked Parakeets, Chorlton Park, 11.10.07 (Rob Smallwood)
an adult again |
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Ring-necked Parakeet, Dunham Massey, 19.12.07 (Henry Cook)
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Ring-necked Parakeet, Fallowfield, 09.10.08 (Rob Smallwood)
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Ring-necked Parakeet, Fallowfield, 09.10.08 (Rob Smallwood)
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Ring-necked Parakeets, Fallowfield, 09.10.08 (Rob Smallwood)
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Amazon Parrot, Fallowfield, 09.10.08 (Rob Smallwood)
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Wryneck, 09.09.05, Horwich (Rob Adderley)
a very much adored and photographed bird during it's stay, in which it generally showed very well and was much appreciated by county listers |
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Green Woodpecker, Birtle, 28.10.07 (Paul Cliff)
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Great Spotted Woodpecker, Buile Hill, Salford, 06.06.07 (Geoff Hargreaves)
just poking out of the nest hole! |
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Great Spotted Woodpecker, Worsley, 01.12.07 (Trevor Ogden)
another garden visitor |
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Great Spotted Woodpecker, Pennington Flash, 23.12.07 (John Tymon)
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Great Spotted Woodpecker, Birtle, 04.08.08 (Mike Killelea)
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Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Chorlton Water Park, December 2005 (Tim Wilcox)
although quite heavily lightened in Photoshop due to a dark original image, this still represents a very nice shot of an extremely difficult species to see in the county, let alone photograph! |
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Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Dunham Massey, 16.02.08 (Paul Cliff)
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Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Heald Green, 09.10.08 (Bob Tomlin)
a wonderful garden visitor! |
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Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Heald Green, 09.10.08 (Bob Tomlin)
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Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Heald Green, 09.10.08 (Bob Tomlin)
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Skylark, North Wharf, Salford, 06.06.07 (Geoff Hargreaves)
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