Bird Surveys

JimOrmerod · JimOrmerod

Here is a message about the new Lancashire Bird Atlas from County Recorder, Steve White:"The results of the 2007-2011 bird atlas surveys of Lancashire and North Merseyside have now been published online. Go the birds page of the Lancashire & Cheshire Fauna Society website www.lacfs.org.uk a...

JimOrmerod · JimOrmerod

The BTO are carrying out a survey into wintering thrushes in the UK. It involves making at one visit to a chosen 1km square between 27th January 2012 and 10th January 2013. Additional visits can be made if you wish. The details of the survey can be found here: http://www.bto.org/volunteer-survey...

JimOrmerod · JimOrmerod

Would anyone be interested in carrying out the monthly Wildfowl Counts at the Grane Reservoirs? Up until about 12 months ago I carried these out and logged the counts on the BTO Suveys site. I know several of you post sightings from Grane from time to time (Sarfraz, David Nuttall, Neil Burke etc) and...

JimOrmerod · JimOrmerod

Steve White has asked if additional effort can be made for several tetrads during November and December to try to produce more complete species lists. Any sightings would be in the form of Roving Records rather than TTVs. We're not sure when the BTO Atlas website will be closing to entries so the dat...

JimOrmerod · JimOrmerod

I'm currently reviewing and validating the returns for the squares SD82 and SD72 (part), and thought it would be useful to summarise the present position. The project is about half-way through and with all your considerable help we have achieved pretty good coverage. In SD82 the following tetrads...

JimOrmerod · JimOrmerod

Graham Jones, the Greater Manchester Biodiversity Officer has contacted me about help with the above survey for several Rossendale sites. As soon as I know further details I'll post them here: As part of a species recovery project for twite a major survey over the West and South Pennines is planned...

JimOrmerod · JimOrmerod

Running alongside the BTO Atlas, this survey aims to produce an atlas for the whole of Lancashire based on the tetrad unit. Though not finally decided (there is a meeting tomorrow, 22nd Sep) the methodology will probably be similar to that for the last Lancashire Atlas i.e. two 2-hour visits to a t...

JimOrmerod · JimOrmerod

Beginning this November, the BTO is coordinating fieldwork for a new atlas project combining both winter and breeding season distributions. Running over 5 years (4 winters and 4 breeding seasons) from 2007 to 2011, it will be based on 10Km squares as before (most of Rossendale lies in SD82 with par...

JimOrmerod · JimOrmerod

A Breeding Bird Survey square has become available at Cowpe Moss. It comes under the area of the GM BTO Rep, Nick Hilton. His email says: SD 8519 = Cowpe Moss, Whitworth, Rochdale (note, terrain-wise and location this is a challenging, but rewarding, survey. It also comes with an additional "adjace...

sarfraz · sarfraz

Banned this from ELOC My name is Joe and I work for Community Science; a citizen science project run by the Moors for the Future partnership (our partners include RSPB among others) which is aimed at encouraging people to submit biological records to monitor how the uplands are responding to climate...

Birderbryan · Birderbryan

Thought this might be interesting to some, a notification from Dawn Balmer (BTO), about Fieldfares being seen in Shropshire AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR!!! here is copy of letter: Hi all Long time no contact. Yesterday I received the following email about some Fieldfares seen in Shropshire and wondered...

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	STICKY: * Lancashire Bird Atlas published online * (Preview) Here is a message about the new Lancashire Bird Atlas from County Recorder, Steve White:"The results of the 2007-2011 bird atlas surveys of Lancashire and North Merseyside have now been published online. Go the birds page of the Lancashire & Cheshire Fauna Society website www.lacfs.org.uk a...	JimOrmerod	0	1067	Tue Oct 15 8:16 PM, 2013 by JimOrmerod
	STICKY: * BTO Winter Thrushes Survey * (Preview) The BTO are carrying out a survey into wintering thrushes in the UK. It involves making at one visit to a chosen 1km square between 27th January 2012 and 10th January 2013. Additional visits can be made if you wish. The details of the survey can be found here: http://www.bto.org/volunteer-survey...	JimOrmerod	1	904	Thu Dec 6 7:57 PM, 2012 by brian
	STICKY: * Haslingden Grane Wildfowl Counts * (Preview) Would anyone be interested in carrying out the monthly Wildfowl Counts at the Grane Reservoirs? Up until about 12 months ago I carried these out and logged the counts on the BTO Suveys site. I know several of you post sightings from Grane from time to time (Sarfraz, David Nuttall, Neil Burke etc) and...	JimOrmerod	3	1086	Fri Jul 13 4:50 AM, 2012 by sarfraz
	STICKY: * Lancs Winter Atlas - additional fieldwork * (Preview) Steve White has asked if additional effort can be made for several tetrads during November and December to try to produce more complete species lists. Any sightings would be in the form of Roving Records rather than TTVs. We're not sure when the BTO Atlas website will be closing to entries so the dat...	JimOrmerod	0	1352	Fri Aug 19 7:51 PM, 2011 by JimOrmerod
	STICKY: * Lancashire and BTO Atlas projects - Progress report * (Preview) I'm currently reviewing and validating the returns for the squares SD82 and SD72 (part), and thought it would be useful to summarise the present position. The project is about half-way through and with all your considerable help we have achieved pretty good coverage. In SD82 the following tetrads...	JimOrmerod	0	1760	Mon Nov 23 2:22 PM, 2009 by JimOrmerod
	STICKY: Twite Survey 2008 * (Preview) Graham Jones, the Greater Manchester Biodiversity Officer has contacted me about help with the above survey for several Rossendale sites. As soon as I know further details I'll post them here: As part of a species recovery project for twite a major survey over the West and South Pennines is planned...	JimOrmerod	7	2013	Thu Mar 13 2:24 PM, 2008 by JimOrmerod
	STICKY: * Lancashire Bird Atlas Project * (Preview) Running alongside the BTO Atlas, this survey aims to produce an atlas for the whole of Lancashire based on the tetrad unit. Though not finally decided (there is a meeting tomorrow, 22nd Sep) the methodology will probably be similar to that for the last Lancashire Atlas i.e. two 2-hour visits to a t...	JimOrmerod	1	2030	Fri Sep 21 9:26 PM, 2007 by JimOrmerod
	STICKY: BTO Winter and Breeding Atlas * (Preview) Beginning this November, the BTO is coordinating fieldwork for a new atlas project combining both winter and breeding season distributions. Running over 5 years (4 winters and 4 breeding seasons) from 2007 to 2011, it will be based on 10Km squares as before (most of Rossendale lies in SD82 with par...	JimOrmerod	0	1495	Fri Sep 21 7:41 PM, 2007 by JimOrmerod
	BBS square at Cowpe Moss available (Preview) A Breeding Bird Survey square has become available at Cowpe Moss. It comes under the area of the GM BTO Rep, Nick Hilton. His email says: SD 8519 = Cowpe Moss, Whitworth, Rochdale (note, terrain-wise and location this is a challenging, but rewarding, survey. It also comes with an additional "adjace...	JimOrmerod	0	1824	Sun Mar 5 6:03 PM, 2017 by JimOrmerod
	Bird and Butterflies Moor Survey (Preview) Banned this from ELOC My name is Joe and I work for Community Science; a citizen science project run by the Moors for the Future partnership (our partners include RSPB among others) which is aimed at encouraging people to submit biological records to monitor how the uplands are responding to climate...	sarfraz	0	922	Tue Jul 21 12:04 AM, 2015 by sarfraz
	Fieldfares reported in Shropshire - Mid July 2008 (Preview) Thought this might be interesting to some, a notification from Dawn Balmer (BTO), about Fieldfares being seen in Shropshire AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR!!! here is copy of letter: Hi all Long time no contact. Yesterday I received the following email about some Fieldfares seen in Shropshire and wondered...	Birderbryan	0	1507	Tue Jul 15 9:21 AM, 2008 by Birderbryan
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