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Tyldesley Sewage Works, Autumn/Winter 1983 (Ian McKerchar0
poor quality photos due to the rubbish camera at the time, but this is number 1 pan of what was then county birding mecca and my second home (behind Pennington) from being an 11/12 year old |
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Tyldesley Sewage Works, Autumn/Winter 1983 (Ian McKerchar)
Number 2 pan with 2 Green Sandpipers arrowed (done in 1983!). In summer the tops of the pans formed a thick crust and as 7-8 year olds, friends and I used to run across the tops of them, of course I didn't realise how good they were for birds or how dangerous that was! |
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Tyldesley Sewage Works, Autumn/Winter 1983 (Ian McKerchar)
Number 3 pan, which was rubbish and only good for Moorhens! |
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Tyldesley Sewage Works, Autumn/Winter 1983 (Ian McKerchar)
Number 4 pan, where we used to get all the ducks, but when I say all........................ |
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Tyldesley Sewage Works, Autumn/Winter 1983 (Ian McKerchar)
Number 5 pan |
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Pennington Flash, Autumn/Winter1983 (Ian McKerchar)
taken from what used to be Pengies Hide (near where the Bunting hide now is), notice the view in the distance is of the main track up to the canal, minus the trees, bushes and hide (New hide) that now reside there! |
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Pennington Flash, Autumn/Winter1983 (Ian McKerchar)
The hide (Grebe Lodge) that used to overlook Rammies just past where the new viewing screen now is, was eventually burned down (by vandals, not the wardens or birders!) and never replaced, shame! |
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Roofless Horrock's Hide, 30.01.07 (Les Steele)
blown completely off after the severe gales in late January 2007, fortunately nobody was in it at the time! |
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Foursome have Shag whilst on boat on Hollingworth Lake, November 2006 (Rob Adderley)
crude yes, but funny! |
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Audenshaw Gull Roost, 24.09.06 (Rob Adderley)
you could almost imagine you were somewhere else! |
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Audenshaw's Sabine's Gull Dip, 16.09.06 (Rob Adderley)
one of the counties biggest dips, if only we'd have all turned up the following evening when the Sabine's reappeared! |
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Desert Wheatear, Irlam Moss, 09.03.07 (Adam Davidson)
Greater Manchester's top county lister (left) and partner search every blade of grass for the elusive bird only to find that it had chosen tarmac as it's most suitable habitat :-) |
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Desert Wheatear walfare, Irlam Moss, 08.03.07 (Paul Heaton)
always with the welfare of rare birds first, here I cunningly use Paul's RSPCA van as cover whilst obtaining afew record shots of the Desert Wheatear shortly after it's finding, little did I know that later on it would allow reasonably close approach! |
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Desert Wheatear twitch, Irlam Moss, 09.03.07 (Tom McKinney)
probably as large as the crowd ever managed over the birds all too short stay with photographer Paul Hackett (see his shots of the bird in the respective gallery) at the front of picture |
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Ashworth Moor Reservoir, April 2007 (Tom McKinney)
included here for, as the photographer puts it, looking all 'Royston Vasey' (for those who watched the 'League of Gentlemen'! Remember, don't stray away from the paths :-) |
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Pennington Flash, 1983 (John Tymon)
the view of Rammies 'as it was' complete with the Bickershaw pit visible in the background (scanned image from a conventional film photo) |
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The Pennington Flash 'A team', 1988 (John Gramouskas)
a 24 year old John Tymon (left, complete with stonewashed jeans, trainers, 'fashionable' wax jacket and 'bird scaring bag') and 21 year old Paul Brown (right, who eventually escaped the county to live in North Ronaldsay and found himself a Siberian Blue Robin!) give their opinion to the photographer! |
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Mr. Hargreaves, Astley Moss, 07.05.07 (Ian Woosey)
have you seen this face? If so please report it to the Enviroment Agency for ruining a very pleasant view (you're a lovely man really Geoff :-) |
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Mr. Woosey, Astley Moss, 07.05.07 (Geoff Hargreaves)
Ian trying to look interested and giving it his very best Littlewoods catalogue look...suits you sir! |
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A new addition to the British List, Pennington Flash, 11.06.06 (Mike Baron)
Two headed Coot anyone? You work it out... |
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Pennington Flash, a long time ago!
supplied by John Tymon (not even John's old enough to have taken it for himself though :-0), Pengies Farm can be seen in the background to the left |
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Manchesterbirders, Spurn, East Yorkshire, 27.08.07 (Ian Woosey)
Jimmy Meadows collecting his butties from the 'Wooseymobile' at the Bluebell car park |
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Manchesterbirders, Spurn, East Yorkshire, 27.08.07 (Ian Woosey)
Jimmy Meadows looks suitably enthralled by my wonderfully elaborate plan for the team to escape from the Crown and Anchor pub in Kilnsea and the evil clutches of the wicked witch of the east who resides there, just as soon as we've finished our pints anyway... |
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Manchesterbirders, Spurn, East Yorkshire, 27.08.07 (Ian Woosey)
my cunning plan was however too late for the unfortunate Tom McKinney who had succumed to the wicked witch's evil spell and turned him into, well, take a look at that face! Paul Hammond (left) thought it was all terribly amusing though! |
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Manchesterbirders, Patrington Haven, East Yorkshire, 27.08.07 (Ian Woosey)
Tom McKinney (3rd from left) looks decidedly happy (if that's indeed what that look is? Probably still suffering the effects of that evil spell) whilst Simon Warford (2nd from right) raises his arm in an absolutely stunning 90 degree angle in celebration as the Mancky birders dig out their very own Red-backed Shrike from the apparently birdless bushes |
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'Moochers', Martin Mere, circa 1983 (Louis Culshaw)
from left: Andy Makin, Paul Brown (apparently in his 'Frank Zappa is God days'!) and John Tymon get a break from Pennington. |
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Cattle Egret dippers, Pennington Flash, 03.12.07 (Ian Woosey)
from left, me (with my back turned!), Paul Heaton, Simon Warford and Barry Hulme |
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Cetti's hopefuls, Pearson's Flash, 23.12.07 (Ian Woosey)
staring at the reeds from left, Paul Hammond, Sonia Adderley (with back turned), Andy Makin and Rob Adderley |
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Cetti's hopefuls, Pearson's Flash, 23.12.07 (Ian Woosey)
a desperate bunch, not knowing which way, not where to look! |
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Cetti's hopefuls, Pearson's Flash, 23.12.07 (Ian Woosey)
from left, Jimmy Meadows,. Alan Warford and Simon Warford |
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Pennington Flash, 1955
almost unrecognisable by todays standards! (image supplied by John Tymon) |
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Now where's that Fulmar?, Chorlton Water Park, 25.05.08 (Rob Adderley, but that's a secret)
county birder Andy Bissitt searches the depths of Chorlton Water Park for the elusive Fulmar. Confused? Seriously, he was looking for the Fulmar in this image, you had to be there apparently! |
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Fulmar meets Berry, 25.05.08 (Ingrid Berry)
the county's top lister is deeply overcome by his new addition and the fact that it joins Manx Shearwater as 'county rarities seen in RSPCA inspector Paul Heaton's hands'! |
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Hero of the hour, Chorlton Water Park, 25.05.08
Pete Hines after heroically rescuing the poorly Chorlton Fulmar, dig those rubber waders Pete...groovy! |
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Pete Hines meets Baillon's Crake, Sunderland, 19.05.89
note the sub-adult plumage of Pete (not the bird!). In fact Pete Hines, like the aquila eagles, has had many plumages of immaturity, although full adult plumage has now been attained I am reliably informed (dubious?) |
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