Redstart - 1 female briefly at 14.38 in the willow carr adjacent to the dry weir.

I managed one lousy record shot before she vanished.

Still present 16.27 Steve Burke, 16.32 Tony o'Mahoney pers comm

pair Willow Tit

Willow Warbler 1
Snipe 2

Jack Snipe 2
Common Snipe 1
Reed Bunting 9
Chiffchaff 1

Kingfisher twice in the last few days

Sand Martin 2
Chiffchaff 1
Reed Bunting 9 (6 males)

Woodcock 1
Chiffchaff 1
Siskin 1
Reed Bunting 2

Crossed Hawthorn lane from Turn Moss.
Kestrel - 1 perched in dead tree, later hunting quite close to me.
Phylloscopus Warbler types heard but not seen clearly - 3.

House Martin 2
Sand Martin 1
Stock Dove 4 over
Buzzard 1
Chiffchaff 1
Blackcap 1
Reed Bunting 3m 1f

Sand Martin 2
Snipe 8
Buzzard 1
Grey Wagtail 4
Meadow Pipit 1
https://ebird.org/hotspot/L7022852


-- Edited by Pete Hines on Thursday 15th of March 2018 02:14:39 PM

2 buzzard
1 sparrowhawk
1 chiffchaff
3 reed bunting
1 jay
3 meadow pipit ,over

5 Shoveler on the small pond - 3 males, 2 females. Seemed to be a bit of courting going on...

5 Meadow Pipit on the flood plain.

at the dry weir..

2 little grebes
2 moorhens
5 swallows
1 house martin

Willow Warbler on Hawthorn Lane yesterday - sang once very quietly.

Also Hawthorn Lane, singing Song Thrush - deafening! Blackcap singing close by, plus at least 3 Chiffchaff also in full voice.

2 Little Ringed Plover
1 Common Sandpiper (heard only, probably along river)
1 Pied Wagtail
3 Teal
3 Tufted Duck at the dry wier
Sand Martin
Swallow


-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Tuesday 16th of April 2013 09:24:44 PM

This afternoon

1 Swallow - my first of the year
No waders today

This afternoon

2 Little Ringed Plovers
Several Teal

This afternoon with Tony Darby

Little Ringed Plover 2
White Wagtail 1
Pied Wagtail 1
Snipe 2
Meadow Pipit 7
Teal 11

This afternoon

Little Ringed Plover 2
Snipe 3
Lapwing 1
Teal 11
Meadow Pipit 2

1 Treecreeper
1 Reed Bunting
15 Teal
3 Tufted

Today:

1 Little Ringed Plover
4 Meadow Pipit
3 Snipe
1 Lapwing
1 Grey Heron
1 Goldcrest
1 Reed Bunting
3 Wren
14 Teal

Info thanks to Phil Kelly

2 Little Ringed Plover
2 Snipe
1 Lapwing
1 White Wagtail
4 Pied Wagtail
Teal

-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Wednesday 3rd of April 2013 04:12:16 PM

29th march

male stonechat still present
1 goldcrest
4 meadow pipits
2 great tits
17 teal
1 moorhen
2 pied wagtails

info thanks to phil Kelly.

male Stonechat still
2 Buzzard over

1 male Stonechat 100m downriver from the dry wier
33 Teal
5 Lapwing
3 Meadow Pipit
2 Pied Wagtail
2 Grey Wagtail

steven burke wrote:

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21 lapwing
26 teal
2 tufted duck
2 moorhen
1 meadow pipit
10 redwing, over

on the river..

1 male stonechat, rock hoping and flycatching, occasionally flying over to the sale water park side.
2 grey wagtail
1 pied wagtail

---

Nice to run into you Steven . Thanks for sending me back for the Stonechat - rather an excellent bird for the site. And my first regular spring migrant Chiffchaff of the year

21 lapwing
26 teal
2 tufted duck
2 moorhen
1 meadow pipit
10 redwing, over

on the river..

1 male stonechat, rock hoping and flycatching, occasionally flying over to the sale water park side.
2 grey wagtail
1 pied wagtail

24.3.13

8 meadow pipits
22 teal
2 grey heron
2 moorhen
1 goldfinch
1 pied wagtail

info thanks to phil Kelly.

32 teal
14 Canada goose

2 tufted duck, 2 mute swan, 1 moorhen, on dry wier.

7 shoveler
2 teal
2 stock dove
34 Canada goose

2 Shoveler

6 Snipe visible
1 Lapwing
6 Shoveler
23 Teal
1 Tufted Duck (dry wier)
5 Redwing

Yesterday

10 Snipe (flushed by cattle)
7 Shoveler
18 Teal
1 Meadow Pipit

7 Snipe
30 Teal
7 Shoveler
1 Tufted Duck on the dry wier
1 Sparrowhawk

3 Siskin (on thistles !)
c20 Goldfinch (separate group)

1 Common Sandpiper at the muddy pool
2 Little Grebe at the dry wier

1 Stock Dove
pair Tufted at the dry wier
pair Grey Wags on the riverbank

yesterday

1 Oystercatcher at the muddy pool next to the wier (info via Liz Saxby)

The location the Cuckoo was seen and heard yesterday was Ivy Green. No sound on a quick visit this evening.

i am posting this on stretford and chorlton ees as we heard it more on the chorlton side but also on the stretford side to begin with. A CUCKOO we trailed it for a good two hours (we can't believe it as we are planning a trip to Rindle Road to see or hear the one there!) now to be specific about where we SAW it, we walked down the mersey (on the stretford side) until you come to the bridge over the little stream from there we took the left hand fork down the small path and heard it first there! (brandon heard it i laughed at him then ate my laugh as i heard it) it called for 4 or 5 times then deadly silence ( and doubts from both of us ) i asked a courting couple who were in the football field just off from the path and they said they had heard it for at least half an hour) we stood motionless waiting for about 10 mins and then again we heard it and over the next hour or so traced it to a small area to the right of the football pitches. we walked through this area examining every tree listening and finally we both saw it Brandon first then me although i only saw it as Brandon was trying to photo it unsuccessfully( maybe not we have 1 photo that shows something similar to a cuckoo but not conclusive)I watched it fly across the path behind us over the green bench which is on a path parallel to our original path (there are many paths here tbh) the section of woodland we saw it in has an old burnt out car in it that must have been there years! we heard a gropper nearby and saw grey wagtails as well as the usual stuff for this area. But tbh we were like a pair of demented idiots asking people if they heard it (which they had ) one chap walks his dog there every night and never has he heard one there before. i recorded it on my phone although it is very quiet in the background of a lot of other bird as it was very gloomy and almost dark by the time i thought of it!

-- Edited by brandon mulhern on Monday 20th of April 2009 08:59:22 PM

13 Shoveler (another 7 on Broad Ees Dole)
4 Teal
2 Tufted
2 Goosander over, dropping down to Broad Ees dole

the hybrid goose from the previous post was at Sale WP

-- Edited by Pete Hines at 21:03, 2009-01-28

8 Teal
2 Shoveler
79+ Magpie

The small hybrid goose of questionable parentage which frequented Didsbury golf course last winter, and documented in the local rag 'The South Manchester Reporter' on 03.01.08, was present with Canadas' on the river bank opposite the dry wier (behind Broad Ees Dole). The first time I've seen it. Small size. dark, blackish/brown plumage, white face with black spot on cheeks, white vent, bright orange legs and feet and small pink beak. Very odd

1 male Wheatear
1 Lapwing
10 Tufted at the dry wier

2 male Wheatear reported this morning (Steve Cummings)

2 Shoveler
4 Teal
3 Lapwing
1 Goosander over
1 very pale Canada goose wth yellow/orange legs

viewed from the sale side of the river so part of the field and pool was obscured.

82+ Magpie
5 Teal
1 Lapwing