Manchester Ship Canal at Weaste

Leucistic Canada Goose
1 Great Crested Grebe
8 Lapwing
2 Oystercatcher

Recent sightings on the Manchester Ship Canal at Weaste

1 Kingfisher
3 Tufted Duck
1 Oystercatcher
10 Lapwing
1 Kestrel

Decent numbers of Swifts and hirundines on Weaste ETW

Pamona- Common Whitethroat, Sand Martins, 25 Mute Swan, Kestrel and a Juv Kestrel, Blackcap, Willow Warblers, Green Finch with Juveniles, Lesser Black-Backed Gull, Cormorant, and a pied wagtail.

Manchester Ship Canal at Weaste

1 Little Grebe
2 Lapwing

Visit after work. Manchester ship canal at weaste...

2 tufted duck
2 great crested grebe
2 grey heron
1 kestrel
18 swallow
3 house martin
6 lapwing
1 chiffchaff
2 whitethroat
5 pied wagtail

Media city..

7 swallow
1 drake goldeneye
2 grey heron
1 moorhen

Trafford wharf...

47 mute swan
1 herring gull

Weaste

c50 Swift
c200 Swallow
c100 House Martin
c100 Sand Martin
2 Oystercatcher
2 Lapwing

Pomona 7pm

60+ sand martin
5 swallow
2 swift
1 lapwing
6 goosander
3 whitethroat
3 blackcap
2 willow warbler
2 chiffchaff
2 sedge warbler

Trafford wharf..

1 swallow
4 sand martin
36 mute swan

Friday 15th may... 1 drake goldeneye & 1 peregrine falcon.

Manchester Ship Canal/Weaste area

1 Great Crested Grebe
1 Oystercatcher
1 Kingfisher
c200 Swift
c200 House Martin
c50 Swallow
4 Lapwing

Nice finds with the Pom Skua and Common Terns Steve, you never know what you can find on the Salford Docklands

Sedge warbler singing & showing well on Trafford wharf this morning on my way to work.

JamieDunning wrote:

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Great find Steve, especially at Salford quays!

steven burke wrote:

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Currently 1 common tern feeding near the watersport club.
150+ hirundines feeding on Trafford wharf, mostly sand martin, several swallow & 1 swift. The most I have ever seen here at once


Was just about to go home & at 3pm an adult pomarine skua came over Trafford wharf got a bit of harassment of the gulls a drifted off north west towards centenary bridge.
What a smart bird & never expected to see that, shame I didn't have a camera

-- Edited by steven burke on Wednesday 6th of May 2015 03:19:01 PM

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Cheers Jamie, still cant believe what an amazing bird to actually find on the quays
Back to the usual birds today after work with at least 38 mute swans & just 3 swallow, 4 sand martin.

Great find Steve, especially at Salford quays!

steven burke wrote:

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Currently 1 common tern feeding near the watersport club.
150+ hirundines feeding on Trafford wharf, mostly sand martin, several swallow & 1 swift. The most I have ever seen here at once


Was just about to go home & at 3pm an adult pomarine skua came over Trafford wharf got a bit of harassment of the gulls a drifted off north west towards centenary bridge.
What a smart bird & never expected to see that, shame I didn't have a camera

-- Edited by steven burke on Wednesday 6th of May 2015 03:19:01 PM

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Currently 1 common tern feeding near the watersport club.
150+ hirundines feeding on Trafford wharf, mostly sand martin, several swallow & 1 swift. The most I have ever seen here at once


Was just about to go home & at 3pm an adult pomarine skua came over Trafford wharf got a bit of harassment of the gulls a drifted off north west towards centenary bridge.
What a smart bird & never expected to see that, shame I didn't have a camera

-- Edited by steven burke on Wednesday 6th of May 2015 03:19:01 PM

International Dawn Chorus Event at Pomona

5am-8am

2 singing Sedge Warblers (1 on MSC and 1 Adamson House)
2 Willow Warbler
8 Whitethroat
1 Chiffchaff
2 Blackcap
4 Lapwing
c50 Sand Martin
4 Song Thrush


-- Edited by James Walsh on Monday 4th of May 2015 08:06:51 PM

Highlights from the BTO's Breeding Bird Survey on Salford Quays this morning were a male and a female Blackcap around the Lowry Outlet.

from 7pm weaste etw...

c45 pied wagtail
2 grey wagtail
1 reed bunting
3 lapwing
15+ swallow
10+ sand martin
6 house martin
120+ black headed gull
1 blackcap, heard only

Manchester ship canal at weaste...

3 great crested grebe
1 tufted duck
1 kingfisher
1 lapwing
1 grey heron

media city...

6 swallow

Trafford wharf...

10 sand martin
7 swallow
1 common sandpiper

Pomona...

just like james c50 sand martin, several of them landing on the ground & whizzing around my head & legs
3 whitethroat
1 blackcap
2 chiffchaff
2 willow warbler
3 lapwing
2 bullfinch
I am going to mention this anyway but I could easily just be hearing things but thought I heard some distant reeling of a grasshopper warbler, only heard once though

Pomona

c50 Sand Martins giving some mega views
1 Kingfisher
4 Whitethroat
1 singing Willow Warbler
4 Lapwing


Manchester Ship Canal at Weaste

1 drake Tufted Duck
1 Oystercatcher
5 Lapwing

-- Edited by James Walsh on Saturday 2nd of May 2015 09:43:55 AM

Thursday 29th April

Pomona South Marsh

1 singing male Lesser Whitethroat in grounds of Adamson House
2 Common Sandpiper
2 Whitethroat
2 Goosander
4 Lapwing
c50 Sand Martin
c10 Swallow
1 Mistle Thrush
1 singing Willow Warbler
1 singing Chiffchaff

Also, c20 House Martins on MSC at Weaste

-- Edited by James Walsh on Thursday 30th of April 2015 07:43:56 PM

Pomona Docks Urban Safari

Superb event with about 30 people

1 Marsh Harrier North at 1pm
1 Common Sandpiper
1 Wheatear
3 singing Willow Warbler
1 singing Chiffchaff
1 singing Blackcap
4 Lapwing
2 Swallow
c50 Sand Martin

Pomona

1 Wheatear


Salford Wharf

1 Buzzard


North Wharf

1 Goldeneye

a visit after work 2pm. Manchester ship canal at weaste..

1 kestrel
1 willow warbler heard only
5 lapwing
1 oystercatcher
3 swallow

media city..

drake goldeneye

Trafford wharf..

2 great crested grebe
5 herring gull

Pomona..

40+ sand martin
2 house martin
3 willow warbler
2 blackcap
2 chiffchaff
1 whitethroat
1 kestrel

Pomona

2 singing Willow Warbler
c50 Sand Martin
2 Lapwing
1 Kestrel

Manchester Ship Canal @ Weaste

2 Great Crested Grebe
2 Swallow
1 singing Willow Warbler
1 Lapwing


Trafford Wharf

3 Kestrel circling together

7pm weaste etw

12 swallow
9 sand martin
3 house martin
1 wheatear
2 little ringed plover
c90 pied wagtail
2 white wagtail
3 grey wagtail
5 lapwing
2 reed bunting
willow warbler heard only

media city

2 swallow
1 drake goldeneye

Trafford wharf

2 great crested grebe

Pomona

3 Lapwing
1 Goldcrest
1 Chiffchaff
2 Grey Wagtail

pamona
100+ meadow pipits 1 redshank, 6 sand martin, 2 coal tit, 1 grey wagtail, 6 mute swan, 6 cormorant, 2 wood pigeon, 6 house sparrow, common gull, herring gull, .

Pomona, 5.30 - 7.30pm:

2 meadow pipit
2 dunnock
5+ wren
3 grey wagtail
1 sand martin
greenfinch heard
2 lapwing (or maybe one lapwing twice)
3 black-headed gull
2 lesser black-backed gull over
1 goosander
c15 mute swan, including one with ring no.: 4ADN
1 kestrel

Mallard, canada geese, magpie, carrion crow, a couple of woodpigeon, a few blackbird, one robin and house sparrows heard.

Pomona 9-11am

4 sand martin
2 chiffchaff
2 lapwing
2 linnet
5 meadow pipit
1 grey wagtail
3 song thrush
1 kestrel
1 sparrowhawk

Pomona 5pm

3 sand martin
4 goosander
5 lapwing
1 grey heron
5 grey wagtail
2 kestrel

10am. Canada goose on eggs and chiffchaff singing near Trafford bridge. Pair of lapwings in courtship flight over warehouses on Ordsall Lane. Three sand martins near Hulme bridge.

Pink-footed Goose on the Manchester Ship Canal between Mode Wheel Locks and the Centenary Bridge, still present at 3pm on the old loading dock viewable from the Lange car park and Kestrel Court

Also, 1 Redshank and 3 Lapwing

Sunday 22nd March

Pomona

Sand Martin
Jack Snipe
Woodcock
Chiffchaff

Info thanks to Tony O'Mahoney


Saturday 21st

Continental Cormorant

1 Lapwing @ Pomona

Mute swan x22 . Common gull x8 Black headed gull x 80 . Lesser Blackback gull x 6 . Cormorant x 12 . Goldeneye x 1 . Goosander x 1f . Grey wagtail x1 . Pomona - . Lapwing x 2 . Linnet x 1 . Kestrel x 2 . House sparrow x 20 . Greenfinch x 3 . Mute swan x 10 . Gt. Crested grebe x 1 .

1 Kingfisher
1 Oystercatcher
5 Lapwing
up to 15 Tufted Duck

6 Lapwing
2 Oystercatcher

Trafford wharf

1 peregrine falcon
2 grey wagtail

Pomona

1 lapwing
1 grey wagtail
1 chiffchaff, singing in wood next to trafford rd bridge.

Tuesday March 10th

9 Tufted Duck
5 Lapwing

Manchester ship canal at weaste.

3 tufted duck
1 kestrel

2.15pm in wood next to trafford rd bridge...

1 chiffchaff
1 goldcrest
1 chaffinch
4 goldfinch

Mute swan 30. . . Darvic rings = Green - CDY6 - Blue - 4BDJ - 4BFZ - ZF6 - 4ADN - 4ACV . . . Lesser black back gull 16 - Herring gull 1 - Common gull 2 - Black headed gull c100 - Cormorant 7 - Grey heron 1 . . . Pomona . . . . Lapwing 1 - Snipe 2 - Kestrel 2 - Greenfinch 2 - House sparrow aprox 10 .

Just over an hour this morning at Pomona before the rain set in and I could no longer see anything:

6 greenfinch
goldfinch heard
1 wren (singing)
1 dunncok (singing)
2 meadow pipit
10+ cormorant
1 lapwing
black-headed gulls, common gulls, lesser black-backed gulls, one adult herring gull over
canada geese, mute swans, mallard

Just finished shopping at Booth's, when a Peregrine flew over, carrying a very large prey item. Both of us thought it was a rat ! Didn't have time to get the bins on it. Peregrine could barely fly as it travelled west, presumably to some high-rise roof.

Pomona

2 Lapwing
1 Goosander
1 Kestrel

2-3 Peregrines
4 Tufted Duck
c20 Goldfinch
10 Coot
drake Goldeneye
2 Grey Wagtail
1 Sparrowhawk
1 Kestrel

Trafford wharf

A visit after my 10pm shift...

22 pochard
41 tufted duck
Plus a few extras..
1 drake goldeneye, possibly the resident one.
1 great crested grebe
6 black headed gull

Manchester Ship Canal between Centenary Bridge and Mode Wheel Locks

7 Lapwing
2 Oystercatcher
2 Bullfinch
1 Goosander


-- Edited by James Walsh on Sunday 22nd of February 2015 03:05:13 PM

Manchester Ship Canal between Centenary Bridge and Mode Wheel Locks

3 Tufted Duck
2 Oystercatcher

Tuesday 17th February

20 Pochard and 50 Tufted Duck at 9:30pm viewable from Trafford Wharf/Lowry Bridge

Trafford wharf.

A visit after my 10pm shift...

14 pochard
45 tufted duck

Pomona 3.45- 5pm

1 jack snipe
3 common snipe
2 lapwing
8 goosander
1 little grebe
2 grey wagtail
8 meadow pipit
1 kestrel
1 sparrowhawk
1 goldcrest
1 chiffchaff, near Trafford rd bridge
1 kingfisher, clippers quay

Yesterday 12th Feb, 12 pochard at 5.25am on Trafford wharf.



-- Edited by steven burke on Friday 13th of February 2015 07:50:55 PM

On birdguides, juvenile Iceland Gull flew upriver at MediaCityUK at 1:10pm