Pete Hines

Mostly patch birding. Has been known to twitch, travel and make movie clips.

[Pete Hines @Hines1Peter]

OTD 4th Feb 2017. Firethroat at Nam Kham Nature Reserve, Chiang Saen, in the north of Thailand. Well worth the effort and sharing again. Still seems like yesterday @mick_turton @AWBirder #mega #Thailand

[Pete Hines @Hines1Peter]

Hudwit in slo mo at BMW this am

[Pete Hines @Hines1Peter]

On my last evening on Lesvos yesterday I found this Nightingale breaking it's own rules, singing out in the open

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Struck patch gold again today with this Ring Ouzel at Carrington Moss, Mcr, and a supporting cast of 3 Yellow Wag, 5 Wheatear and a Med Gull

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Lots of activity at Stretford Meadows (MCR) this am, with 2 Tree Pipit (1 singing), male Redstart, Grasshopper Warbler reeling briefly and 2 Common Whitethroat, the highlights.

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Drake Scaup on the Manchester Ship Canal from the Davyhulme Millennium Nature Reserve for it's 4th day

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Had a top Shag at Sale Water Park this pm, (thanks to the finder John Shaughnessy).

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5 Meds again at Fives Trafford, Trafford Park, but this time no adults

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@scally_ray I had 3 ad, 1 st sum & the juv Med, 1 Common Tern, 1 Ringo & 3 Oyc. That's a mad piece of concrete.

[Pete Hines @Hines1Peter]

5 Med Gull (4ad & 1st sum) at Fives Trafford (near Trafford Centre) this morning. They fly across the Ship Canal to the filter beds at Eccles ETW.

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Med Gull at Turn Moss Playing Fields, Stretford, GM, this morning. This is the 4th successive year they've turned up here in the 3rd week of June @OurTurnMoss

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13-20 Crossbill in Larch at Binn Green @RSPBDoveStone this morning

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@tom_mckinney @01000011S Alright Tom. I was at the Davyhulme side of Barton Lock yesterday, the water level was much higher and only a couple of dead fish on the surface. A different picture entirely.

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Countless thousands of dead fish, mostly Bream (?) by the looks of it, lining both sides of the Manchester Ship Canal at Barton Embankment and Langland Drive

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@01000011S Not sure. The water level went down in the hot spell last year and that didn't happen, so maybe both. Not a pretty sight or smell and nothing is eating them.

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Lovely Wood Warbler (aren't they all) today at Stalybridge CP above Brushes Res for 2nd day

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@scally_ray @Lancswildlife The first GM record was at Altrincham Sewage Farm in 1945

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Black-winged Stilt images from Little Woolden Moss, MCR, on 7th and Burton Mere Wetlands on 5th May

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@SamHarr00273062 @OurTurnMoss 11 of those observations were in spring between 23rd March and 30th April, with 2 autumn sightings on 23rd August '82 and 23rd September 2013

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Had quite a tidy Wheatear day with 21 across 3 sites in MCR, 10 Warburton, 9 Carrington Moss and finally these 2 on the patch at Turn Moss this evening @OurTurnMoss

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@SamHarr00273062 @OurTurnMoss eBird tells me that's 13 observations of 28 individuals. My first was 10th April 1977 and highest count was 7 on 25th April 1977