1 Little Egret 2 Green Sandpiper 1 Water Rail - brief view as it disappeared into poolside vegetation 1 Hobby - juvenile 1 Sparrowhawk - female 3 Kestrel 2 Goldcrest - both singing 2 Cormorant over 4 Grey Heron 1 Swift over heading south
Extremely quiet for small birds.
Steven Nelson said
Sun Aug 20 7:37 PM, 2023
Little Woolden Moss NR - brief afternoon visit
1 Hobby hawking dragonflies low over pools at western end was the highlight. Otherwise extremely quiet.
Dave Stewart said
Sun Aug 20 5:09 PM, 2023
Chat Moss mid morning / early afternoon
2 Green sandpiper
1 Hobby... a nice prolonged view of a juvenile hawking dragonflies 13-05-13-20hrs.
4 Willow Warbler
1 Chiffchaff
1 Buzzard...juvenile heard begging for food.
6 Teal
1 Sparrowhawk...adult female in moult
9 Swallow
2 House Martin
4 Pied Wagtail...adult male & 3 juveniles
Dave Steel said
Sat Aug 19 4:07 PM, 2023
170823 am
Barton Moss...including a nice chat with Steve Judge
22 Swallow
26 House Martin
2 Sparrowhawk...male
85 Goldfinch
14 Mistle Thrush
1 Swift
Chat Moss
2 Grey Partridge
5 Swallow.
Dave Steel said
Sat Aug 19 4:03 PM, 2023
160823 am
Irlam Moss
85 Swallow
38 Pied Wagtail
8 House Martin
1 Wheatear
1 Goldcrest...in song!
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
23 Swallow
1 Blackcap
3 Willow Warbler
3 Chiffchaff.
Dave Steel said
Sat Aug 19 3:59 PM, 2023
150823 brief visit am
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
1 Hobby
6 Teal
2 Willow Warbler
Little Woolden Moss
4 Yellow Wagtail
16 Pied Wagtail
17 Swallow.
Steve Judge said
Sat Aug 19 2:40 PM, 2023
Saturday 19th August 10:45 - 14:00 hrs.
Walk from New Moss Wood Cadishead - along path parallel to River Glaze - Great Woolden Hall Farm/Stables - Little Woolden Hall Farm - Little Woolden Moss NR - and return via New Moss Road
Chat Moss 3:15pm - 6:05pm, highlights included: little egret and green sandpiper on the big pool North of Twelve Yards Road; 100+ woodpigeons on Twelve Yards Road; 100+ swallows, 50+ house martins and 50+ pied wagtails at Trophy Lawn Turf with a couple of dozen starlings and a couple of yellow wagtails.
Irlam Moss 6:05pm - 6:25pm, 100+ woodpigeons with 50+ pigeons and a dozen stock doves.
Dave Steel said
Tue Aug 8 6:12 PM, 2023
070823 am
Irlam Moss
8 Yellow Wagtail
26 Pied Wagtail
16 House Martin
23 Swallow
Little Woolden Moss
5 Yellow Wagtail
12 House Martin
8 Swallow
18 Rook
1 Wheatear
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR West
1 Sparrowhawk
3 Willow Warbler...one giving a brief snatch of song
1 Hobby @ 1152.
Dave Steel said
Mon Aug 7 6:07 PM, 2023
060823 am
Chat + Barton Moss
13 House Martin
14 Swallow
3 Yellow Wagtail
1 Sparrowhawk with prey
1 Raven
2 Whitethroat
18 Mistle Thrush
2 Kestrel.
Dave Steel said
Sun Aug 6 8:05 PM, 2023
050823 am
Barton Moss FN49/50/55
75 House Sparrow
19 Swallow
32 House Martin
2 Yellow Wagtail
2 Yellowhammer
2 Stock Dove.
-- Edited by Dave Steel on Sunday 6th of August 2023 07:21:52 PM
Dave Steel said
Sat Aug 5 8:31 PM, 2023
040823 am
Irlam Moss
180 Black-Headed Gull
13 Lesser black-Backed Gull
3 Swallow
5 Grey Partridge...2 Adult 3 Large Young
4 House Martin
Chat Moss
33 Swallow
17 House Martin
-- Edited by Dave Steel on Sunday 6th of August 2023 07:21:52 PM
-- Edited by Dave Steel on Sunday 6th of August 2023 07:22:24 PM
-- Edited by Dave Steel on Friday 4th of August 2023 08:29:37 PM
Steven Nelson said
Fri Aug 4 5:39 PM, 2023
This afternoon:
Chat Moss: At least 1 Whinchat still in f52 but spends long periods down in the crops. 1 Little Egret 1 Tufted Duck - female 1 Yellow Wagtail 1 Yellowhammer
Little Woolden Moss NR: 1 Hobby
Pete Hines said
Fri Aug 4 12:00 PM, 2023
Chat Moss
Little Egret 1 Whinchat 2 juveniles together in F52
Dave Steel said
Thu Aug 3 5:40 PM, 2023
020823 am...another curtailed wander
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR East
22 Lapwing
1 Curlew....calling constantly
4 Little Ringed Plover
1 Sparrowhawk
3 Kestrel
7 Swallow
Chat Moss
35 Swift
23 House Martin
-- Edited by Dave Steel on Thursday 3rd of August 2023 05:41:44 PM
Little Woolden Moss NR: 1 Peregrine - in a mid-air skirmish with a Kestrel 2 Willow Tit 1 Little Ringed Plover 21 Lapwing 4 Kestrel 1 Buzzard
Little Woolden Moss: 8 Tree Sparrow - including at least 3 young 1 Yellowhammer singing
Dave Steel said
Wed Aug 2 4:45 PM, 2023
010823 am...yet another restricted but determined visit (due to a back injury)...
Irlam Moss
80 Starling
4 Chiffchaff
2 Swallow
4 House Sparrow
23 Collared Dove
22 Carrion Crow
1 Yellowhammer
Chat Moss
10 Willow Warbler...1 giving a snatch of song...
22 Chiffchaff...2 giving snatches of song
1 Marsh Harrier...flying South @ 1115
2 Bullfinch
Chat Moss
9 Stock Dove
3 Chiffchaff.
Steven Nelson said
Tue Aug 1 9:53 PM, 2023
Chat Moss - this evening
3 Green Sandpiper 1 Greenshank - heard only 3 Teal 1 Willow Tit - heard only 1 Yellow Wagtail - male 1 Lesser Redpoll 1 Water Rail - heard only 1 Buzzard 3 Sand Martin
250723 Late Afternoon...paying homage to some of the seemingly doomed areas of Barton Moss Greenbelt as it awaits it's almost inevitable fate in my opinion of being concreted over for what you might ask.......... Warehouses!!!!(as site PfE JPA29).....the Powerful developers MUST in my opinionforever have their way it seems...
Well lets face it...it's 'only' nature ....and the birds affected are 'only' under severe threat as Red and Amber listed birds....
26 House Martin....taking insects from this greenbelt farmland
17 Swallow....these too relying upon this landscape to gain insect food from...
11 Skylark...I'm sure to play Vaughn Williams 'Lark Ascending' and gather my lachrymal tears in pools when I discover this landscape is lost FOREVER
1 Yellowhammer in song (a swan song perhaps?)
13 Yellow Wagtail....including 7 Juveniles...these would have continued the generations of these summer visitors into many generations to come IF their homeland remained...
1 Marsh Harrier
40+ House Martin which appeared as the rain started
190823 am
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
2 Marsh Harrier
2 Yellow Wagtail
30 Teal
9 Chiffchaff
1 Green Sandpiper
2 Swift
Little Woolden Moss
11 Stock Dove
1 Yellow Wagtail
5 Swallow
180823 am
Chat Moss
1 Ring-Necked Parakeet
1 Nuthatch
13 Chiffchaff
90 House Martin
75 Swallow
10 Linnet
1 Yellowhammer
Irlam Moss
44 Swallow
2 Kestrel
11 Chiffchaff
1 Willow Tit
2 Bullfinch
72 Lapwing
70 Starling
1 Little Egret
2 Green Sandpiper
1 Water Rail - brief view as it disappeared into poolside vegetation
1 Hobby - juvenile
1 Sparrowhawk - female
3 Kestrel
2 Goldcrest - both singing
2 Cormorant over
4 Grey Heron
1 Swift over heading south
Extremely quiet for small birds.
1 Hobby hawking dragonflies low over pools at western end was the highlight. Otherwise extremely quiet.
Chat Moss mid morning / early afternoon
2 Green sandpiper
1 Hobby... a nice prolonged view of a juvenile hawking dragonflies 13-05-13-20hrs.
4 Willow Warbler
1 Chiffchaff
1 Buzzard...juvenile heard begging for food.
6 Teal
1 Sparrowhawk...adult female in moult
9 Swallow
2 House Martin
4 Pied Wagtail...adult male & 3 juveniles
170823 am
Barton Moss...including a nice chat with Steve Judge
22 Swallow
26 House Martin
2 Sparrowhawk...male
85 Goldfinch
14 Mistle Thrush
1 Swift
Chat Moss
2 Grey Partridge
5 Swallow.
160823 am
Irlam Moss
85 Swallow
38 Pied Wagtail
8 House Martin
1 Wheatear
1 Goldcrest...in song!
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
23 Swallow
1 Blackcap
3 Willow Warbler
3 Chiffchaff.
150823 brief visit am
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
1 Hobby
6 Teal
2 Willow Warbler
Little Woolden Moss
4 Yellow Wagtail
16 Pied Wagtail
17 Swallow.
Walk from New Moss Wood Cadishead - along path parallel to River Glaze - Great Woolden Hall Farm/Stables - Little Woolden Hall Farm - Little Woolden Moss NR - and return via New Moss Road
Marsh Harrier (1) - Female
Hobby (1)
Buzzard (4)
Kestrel (2)
Willow Warbler (3)
Raven (1) heard only
Goldfinch (10)
House Martin (20)
Swallow (5)
Pied Wagtail (1)
Canada Geese (73)
2 Greenshank
1 Green Sandpiper
1 Little Egret
1 Yellow Wagtail
1 Teal
1 Cormorant over
140823 am...in Heavy Rain @ Times...
Little Woolden Moss
1 Nuthatch
190 Swallow...feeding flock over a Spring Sown Barley Crop and in and out of the adjacent tree-line...during quite heavy rain
140 House Martin------------Ditto-------
29 Pied Wagtail
3 Kestrel
4 Grey Partridge
1 Wheatear
13 Swallow
1 Marsh Harrier.
130823 another all too brief wander am
Irlam Moss
64 Pied Wagtail
6 Yellow Wagtail
2 Wheatear
7 House Martin
9 Linnet
1 Kestrel
35 Black-Headed Gull
48 Lesser Black-Backed Gull
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker.
120823 Very Brief mid morn visit
Irlam Moss
24 Swallow
1 Sparrowhawk
Chat Moss
7 Swallow
1 Buzzard.
110823 am
Little Woolden Moss
7 Yellow Wagtail
9 Swallow
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR West
102 Mallard
1 Shoveler
7 Teal
1 Green Sandpiper
3 Willow Warbler
2 Whitethroat
2 Yellow Wagtail.
100823 am
Irlam Moss
15 Swallow
13 House Martin
3 Yellow Wagtail
53 Lesser Black-Backed Gull
1 yellowhammer
1 Herring Gull
Chat Moss
17 Swallow
40 House Martin
1 Buzzard---juvenile being chased by the aforementioned Hirundine
1 Yellowhammer
4 Chiffchaff
1 Sparrowhawk...Male
1 Green Sandpiper
3 Bullfinch.
090823 am
Irlam Moss
60 Starling
270 Black-Headed Gull
6 Yellow Wagtail
23 Pied Wagtail
50 Swallow
19 Rook
6 House Martin
3 Stock Dove
27 Lesser Black-Backed Gull.
080823 am
Cadishead Moss
60 Swift
2 Yellowhammer
14 Swallow
4 Yellow Wagtail
4 Skylark
32 Linnet
Irlam Moss
1 Whinchat
11 Yellow Wagtail
62 Swallow
10 House Martin
6 Swift
070823 am
Irlam Moss
8 Yellow Wagtail
26 Pied Wagtail
16 House Martin
23 Swallow
Little Woolden Moss
5 Yellow Wagtail
12 House Martin
8 Swallow
18 Rook
1 Wheatear
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR West
1 Sparrowhawk
3 Willow Warbler...one giving a brief snatch of song
1 Hobby @ 1152.
060823 am
Chat + Barton Moss
13 House Martin
14 Swallow
3 Yellow Wagtail
1 Sparrowhawk with prey
1 Raven
2 Whitethroat
18 Mistle Thrush
2 Kestrel.
050823 am
Barton Moss FN49/50/55
75 House Sparrow
19 Swallow
32 House Martin
2 Yellow Wagtail
2 Yellowhammer
2 Stock Dove.
-- Edited by Dave Steel on Sunday 6th of August 2023 07:21:52 PM
040823 am
Irlam Moss
180 Black-Headed Gull
13 Lesser black-Backed Gull
3 Swallow
5 Grey Partridge...2 Adult 3 Large Young
4 House Martin
Chat Moss
33 Swallow
17 House Martin
-- Edited by Dave Steel on Sunday 6th of August 2023 07:21:52 PM
-- Edited by Dave Steel on Sunday 6th of August 2023 07:22:24 PM
030823 am
Little Woolden Moss
10 Pied Wagtail
11 Linnet
9 Lapwing
12 Skylark
2 Yellowhammer
3 Whitethroat
46 House Martin
14 Swift
1 Yellow Wagtail
17 Swallow
2 Great Spotted Woodpecker
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR West
2 Yellow Wagtail
5 Swift
7 Swallow
9 Pied Wagtail
1 Wheatear...Juvenile
-- Edited by Dave Steel on Friday 4th of August 2023 08:29:37 PM
Chat Moss:
At least 1 Whinchat still in f52 but spends long periods down in the crops.
1 Little Egret
1 Tufted Duck - female
1 Yellow Wagtail
1 Yellowhammer
Little Woolden Moss NR:
1 Hobby
Little Egret 1
Whinchat 2 juveniles together in F52
020823 am...another curtailed wander
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR East
22 Lapwing
1 Curlew....calling constantly
4 Little Ringed Plover
1 Sparrowhawk
3 Kestrel
7 Swallow
Chat Moss
35 Swift
23 House Martin
-- Edited by Dave Steel on Thursday 3rd of August 2023 05:41:44 PM
Little Woolden Moss NR:
1 Peregrine - in a mid-air skirmish with a Kestrel
2 Willow Tit
1 Little Ringed Plover
21 Lapwing
4 Kestrel
1 Buzzard
Little Woolden Moss:
8 Tree Sparrow - including at least 3 young
1 Yellowhammer singing
010823 am...yet another restricted but determined visit (due to a back injury)...
Irlam Moss
80 Starling
4 Chiffchaff
2 Swallow
4 House Sparrow
23 Collared Dove
22 Carrion Crow
1 Yellowhammer
Chat Moss
10 Willow Warbler...1 giving a snatch of song...
22 Chiffchaff...2 giving snatches of song
1 Marsh Harrier...flying South @ 1115
2 Bullfinch
Chat Moss
9 Stock Dove
3 Chiffchaff.
3 Green Sandpiper
1 Greenshank - heard only
3 Teal
1 Willow Tit - heard only
1 Yellow Wagtail - male
1 Lesser Redpoll
1 Water Rail - heard only
1 Buzzard
3 Sand Martin
310723 am
Chat Moss
23 Swift
47 Swallow
1 Yellowhammer in song
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
19 Lapwing
1 Curlew
3 Little Ringed Plover
2 Yellow Wagtail
9 Willow Warbler
Irlam Moss
110 Starling
2 Kestrel
1 Marsh Harrier - female
2 Little Ringed Plover
c150 Swift
3 House Martin
18 Lapwing
4 Kestrel
300723 am
Irlam Moss
55 Pied Wagtail
2 Yellow Wagtail
22 Swallow
3 Stock Dove
35 Goldfinch
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
55 House Martin
3 Little Ringed Plover
2 Willow Tit
8 Swallow.
Chat Moss am
1 Kingfisher
1 Little Egret
5 Teal
3 Green Sandpiper
2 Grey Partridge
45 House Martin
2 Swift
27 Swallow
1 Little Egret
3 Green Sandpiper
1 Hobby
6 Grey Heron
1 Siskin
1 Nuthatch
Little Woolden Moss am
23 Pied wagtail
32 Li1nnet
7 Grey Partridge...2 Adult 5 Small Young
6 Skylark
4 Lapwing
1 Whinchat...Juvenile
1 Curlew
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR West
1 Peregrine with prey
1 Hobby attracted no doubt by the new hatch of Black Darters
34 Mallard.
1 Little Egret
260723
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
60 Lesser Black-Backed Gulls
1 Yellow Wagtail
2 Curlew
2 Snipe
12 Swallow.
14 Rook
1 Marsh Harrier - female
6 Little Ringed Plover
56 Lapwing
2 Lesser Redpoll
17 House Martin
3 Kestrel
A rather tame recently fledged Willow Warbler
250723 Late Afternoon...paying homage to some of the seemingly doomed areas of Barton Moss Greenbelt as it awaits it's almost inevitable fate in my opinion of being concreted over for what you might ask.......... Warehouses!!!!(as site PfE JPA29).....the Powerful developers MUST in my opinion forever have their way it seems...
Well lets face it...it's 'only' nature ....and the birds affected are 'only' under severe threat as Red and Amber listed birds....
26 House Martin....taking insects from this greenbelt farmland
17 Swallow....these too relying upon this landscape to gain insect food from...
11 Skylark...I'm sure to play Vaughn Williams 'Lark Ascending' and gather my lachrymal tears in pools when I discover this landscape is lost FOREVER
1 Yellowhammer in song (a swan song perhaps?)
13 Yellow Wagtail....including 7 Juveniles...these would have continued the generations of these summer visitors into many generations to come IF their homeland remained...
27 House Sparrow
2 Buzzard---1 Adult and 1 Juvenile
Irlam Moss
22 Linnet
37 Swallow
12 House Martin
2 Buzzard...Juveniles
10 Pied Wagtail
Little Woolden Moss
22 Lapwing
1 Little Ringed Plover
1 Willow Warbler gave a brief snatch of song
1 Blackcap in song.
200723 am
Irlam Moss
17 House Sparrow
2 Chiffchaff
2 Whitethroat in song
125 Starling
24 House Martin
17 Swallow
1 Yellow Wagtail
8 Pied Wagtail
2 Siskin
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
23 Swift
3 Willow Warbler in alarm
1 Peregrine...male
15 Swallow
1 Lesser Redpoll in display Flight.
Chat Moss
7 Grey Partridge...2 Adult 5 Large young...
190723 am
Irlam Moss
16 Swift
28 House Martin
120 Starling
38 Swallow
2 Curlew
1 Yellowhammer in song
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
1 Chiffchaff in alarm
11 Swift
3 Swallow
1 Sand Martin.
1 Little Egret
8 Grey Heron
1 Willow Tit - first one here for quite a while
5 Teal
22 Lapwing
2 Yellowhammer
120+ Swift
-- Edited by Steven Nelson on Sunday 23rd of July 2023 01:46:52 PM
1 Whinchat - male
2 Little Ringed Plover
1 Sedge Warbler
26 Lapwing
25+ Willow Warbler - mostly in foraging flock containing many young birds
2 Kestrel
180723 am
Little Woolden Moss LWTNR
1 Green Sandpiper
1 Sedge Warbler in Song
38 Swift
18 Linnet
3 Yellow Wagtail
7 Sand Martin
26 Swallow
170723 am
Chat Moss
1 Curlew
8 Willow Warbler
1 Common Sandpiper
1 Greenshank
2 Bullfinch.
10+ Green Sandpiper
4 Common Sandpiper
1 Yellow Wagtail
3 Teal
18 Lapwing