spotted flycatcher
family of 5 mistle thrush
2 stonechat
6 linnet
5 goldfinch
7 willow warbler
lots of house martin and families of tits

Checked out the area on Thursday 4th June late evening and the GSW was very busy drumming and calling outside its nest in the tree trunk, trying to tempt the sprogs out.
Checked out the site again Friday evening and all was quite so I think during the day juniors fledged??
Fledgeling blue tits where in the trees around the area being fed by adults. Chaffinches M & F around, no Flycatchers seen.

Sumo

hi thanks for the info john i managed a few digiscoped shots before it dissapeared into the woodland

Hi Gary,

I think Lady Amherst's Pheasant is now considered extinct in Britain (or at least no sustainable feral population) so this might be worth keeping an eye on to see if there is a small colony or if it's a single garden escape.

Cheers, John

had to confirm from yesterday i also saw a lady amherst pheasant which i hadnt a clue what it was. i was thinking albino pheasant until i watched my bird dvd of europe apparently introduced from asia into this country ,a feral tick for me

Good days birding today many family parties, nuthatch,tree creeper,blue great and long tailed tits and grey wagtails.
Lifer for me was a tree pipit
Redpol 6
linnet 2
stonechat 2
spotted flycatcher 4
green woodpecker
cuckoo
skylark
meadow pipits
great spotted woodpecker 2
plus all the usual stuff
butterflies painted lady,orange tip,small white.
failed on the redstarts and pied flycatcher even after sitting in woodland for 1 hour being eaten by midges

Picked a bad today on parking up at Anglezarke
An illegal rave was on going wouldnt have heard Big Ben never mind Garden Warblers
Birds heard and seen when my hearing came back Highlights
Green Woodpecker
Tree Pipit
Cuckoo
Bullfinch
Grey Wagtail
Curlew
Oystercatcher with 2 Young No Raptors ,No Flycatchers , No Wood Warblers
Back past the rave all quiet they was all asleep in cars and vans

Cheers DJ Meadows

-- Edited by j meadows on Sunday 31st of May 2009 10:04:24 PM

Gary,

It was really nice to meet you this afternoon, We didn't have anything different to you while in the area after you had left. Hope to see you soon,

John and Janice

spotted flycatcher was the pick of the birds today along with a little ringed plover,stonechat,reed bunting ,bullfinch,grey heron and a cuckoo being chased by a willow warbler. Also great spotted woodpecker,treecreeper,nuthatch,redpol,curlew,great crested grebe,oystercatchers,pied wagtails and all the usuals.
painted lady butterflies in abundance today
Big hello again and nice chatting with you both John and ? sorry i didnt catch your name.


-- Edited by Gary Gorner on Saturday 30th of May 2009 05:17:16 PM

later visit than usual as we went to martin mere in the morning. sampled a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake from the cricket club which was very nice.
birds included
linnets,redpol,meadow pipits,willow warblers,nuthatch,mistle thrush,jay,grey wagtail and all the usual stuff.

Spotted Flycatcher at north end of Anglezarke Reservoir this morning.

sunday 9.00-12.30
2 jay
3 pheasant
2 raven
1 buzzard
2 grey wagtails
2 nuthatch
1 black backed gull
1 cuckoo
3 redpol
3 curlew
10 lapwings
8 crows
2 song thrush
2 mistle thrush
willow warbler song everywhere
plus all the usual stuff
thanks to the kind lady who helped us locate the area for the redstarts

2/5/09 am

Cuckoo gradually ranging up the valley, giving very good views near the cricket pavillion.
Grasshopper Warbler,
2 Raven,
Buzzard,
f.Stonechat,
Curlew,
4 Lesser Redpoll,
Skylark,
many Willow Warblers.

Just realized that with the Cuckoo I`ve made it into the Lancashire & North Merseyside 200 Club........Does anyone want to join me in the inaugural ****-up ?

19.04.09
4 nuthatch
1 pied flycatcher male
2 greatspotted woodpecker
6 redpol
10 meadow pipits
15 willow warbler
2 mistle thrush
2 green finch
7 goldfinch
2 grey wags
6 grey wags
2 ravens

butterflies
3 peacock
1 small white
1 large white

1 stoat

no problem Ian as this is simply the best forum around and can only get better thanks to people like your good self

Will do

I didn't bother reporting GC Grebe, Cormorant, Lapwing, Linnet, Skylark, Curlew etc. as I presume they are all common there.

Neil Southworth wrote:

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Please post your sightings on Chorley & District Natural History Society web site if you're birding on our patch!

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That's not to say you shouldn't continue to post them here either chaps, always have been and always will be appreciated

I will do just that Neil i do tend to miss quite a few birds when ive got the wife with me

Tony / Gary

Also available in the same location this morning were:-

Cormorant, GC Grebe, Little Ringed Plover, Lapwing, Buzzard, Stonechat, Grey Wag, Pied Wag, Skylark, Fieldfare, Dipper and Linnet . See what you missed!

Please post your sightings on Chorley & District Natural History Society web site if you're birding on our patch!

9.00-1.00pm
2 reed buntings in different locations nice to see them back
loads of willow warblers belting their songs out
coal,blue,great and long tailed tits
both song and mistle thrush
green,gold and chaffinch
several crows
2 magpies
1 nuthatch
1 tree creeper
loads of meadow pipits
2 redpol
4 curlew
2 oystercatcher
plenty wrens and robins
4 swallows
1 green and 1 great spotted woodpecker
lovely weather and a nice 8 mile walk.

Anglezarke - Great Hill

Pretty quiet today apart from tens of Willow Warblers all belting away.

A few GSW drumming in the woods

Sparrowhawk overhead but nothing but Mipits on the moors

me and Vernon was up there saturday afternoon we got the buzzards ,ravens and kestrel, also worth mentioning was a single fieldfare,2 mistle thrush and a couple of great spotted woodpeckers and one green woodpecker calling.
hope you bring better cakes next time Vernon

This Afternoon with Tom Morton
3 Buzzards 1 pr displaying
1 Kestrel with prey
1 Sparrowhawk
3 Ravens
Dipper heard flying up the Goyt
2 Stonechat in fine breeding plumage
Curlews displaying

Anglzarke Res
3 Little ring plover
2 Oystercatchers
20+ Meadow pipts
3 LBB Gulls

Jimmy

SUNDAY 22-03-09

1 TAWNY OWL
1 WILLOW WARBLER
2 GREY WAGTAILS
1 NUTHATCH
1 GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER
6 MEADOW PIPITS
2 RAVENS
1 SONG THRUSH
PLUS ALL THE USUAL STUFF

sunday 9.00am-12.00pm bit of a dismal walk today wet and windy

2 flocks of redwings 10+7
lots of tits robins and blackbirds
1 song thrush
2 pheasant
1 buzzard
2 greenfinch
6 chaffinch
crows and magpies

bring on the migrants

sunday 8/02/09 11.00am-2.00pm
early morning cold snap seemed to be keeping the birds low anglezarke frozen over but had thawed out by the time we were going home.still managed 8 robins,10 great tits,15 blue tits,6 longtailed tits,20+ redwings,6 crows,4 magpies,1 mistlethrush,1 cormerant.:roll on spring biggrin:

sunday 1/2/09
2 mistle and 1 song thrush,1 greatspotted woodpecker ,1 treecreeper,10 blue 10 great and 5 longtailed tits ,several crows and a nice surprice was 2 flocks of redwings one flock of about 100 and 1 flock of about 253 pied wagtails and 2 pochard and 4 tufted on anglezarke

sunday

walked around anglzarke birds starting to sing spring is just around the corne.r plenty of blue and great tits about and other birds of note were nuthatch,2 jays,4 mistle thrush ,1 songthrush,33 canadas on the resi and 1 sparrowhawk

Male Hen Harrier hunting on moors over Black Coppice Tues pm

brilliant weather and finally got the hobby a first for me at this site.
also 2 juv kestrel and 1 peregrine.
found a good flock of redpol 20+ hiding in the trees not surprising with all the raptors about.
several willow warblers,4 stonechat,1 wheatear and 1 greywag.
loads of swallows wizzing about over the hills.

-- Edited by Gary Gorner at 08:48, 2008-09-19

ian,you keep sneaking over the borders i,m getting a bit worried

but well done helen on the hobbyeven though it doesn,t count

7/7/08 Mid-afternoon

Close and prolonged views of an adult Hobby (a lifer for Ellie-birder ),
family party of Stonechats (4 juvs),
ad & juv Green Woodpecker,
family party of Kestrels.

buzzard
kestrel
rooks and crows
spotted flycatcher (watermans cottage)
3 oystercatchers
several willow warblers
several redpoll
green woodpecker
dipper
grey wagtails
meadow pipits
no signs of garden warbler or redstarts

just when i was about to give up hope of seeing a redstart what happens i see 4 ,two males and 2 females lifers for meand stunning birds to watch.
also greenwoodpecker,great spotted woodpecker,grey wagtails,several redpols,garden warbler in its usual spot,spotted flycatcher,tree creeper,nuthatch,willow warblers and raptors kestrel and buzzard.also loads of swift,swallows and housemartins.went slightly of the beeten track and paid for it by going up to my knees in wet muddy sh_t.still who cares im on 189 total for this country
still a chance of a hobby i hope with all these hirundines about.

no signs of flycatchers today and they have flown the cooplots of other activity round and about nuthatch,greenwoodpecker,redpol,mipits,song thrush,family of greywags by the waterfall,kestrel and buzzard.plenty of hirundines wizzing about heres hoping for a hobby soon.

sorry for the late post yesterday had a great day finally caught up with target species spotted flycatcherlifer and bagged a suprise pied flycatcher lifer.also green woodpecker and the juv and one parent showing very well up by the waterfall.those garden warblers are driving me nuts you can be 6ft away and still cant see them.meadow pipits everywhere but failed on the tree pipetwho cares gives me a reason not that i need one to go back to this great place.have been told there are also redstart about which would be another lifer for me

walked the pathway dean mentions in pre post great birding nuthatches,treecreeperswith young at watermans cottage no signs of flycatchers
willow warblers everywhere.lifer for me was gardenwarblernear cricket field entrance and dipper feeding young but could only see one fledgeling.pair of coockoo flew straight past me being chased by hirendines up towards the falls.also possible 6 redpol rattling away thanks to tom morton for the id nice to meet up with you
also a pair of raven on top of quarry and a kestrel hovering about,2 greywags,2 reed buntings and willow warblers everywhere.great place will definately go again

-- Edited by Gary Gorner at 14:48, 2008-06-03

1 male Pied Flycatcher yesterday (fri) in trees right next to road opposite gate on path to white coppice. Also poss female but not 100%


Dean.

I was up there on fri afternoon, never gone further than the north end of Anglezarke before.Saw 3 Spotted Flycatchers near watermans cottage. Took the path from the road towards White Coppice. It's a great area loads of birds. I hadn't much time so had to turn back before i got to the area where the Tree pipits are. Spoke to Carol who posts on the Chorley site who said there were Pied Flycatchers and Redstart in the area. I'll have to go again when i've got more time.

Tom,

I would be interested to know where you saw Wood Warbler and Pied Flycatcher. Please post at www.chorleynats.org.uk/forum

Neil

A great place Tom and yes I dd see 2 Tree Pipits at the place where you said singing their hearts out, thanks for the info.

Try this for a walk - Anglezarke Reservoir to Wheelton Plantation via Whiie Coppice. Today (1/6) 2 Ravens, Buzzard (upto 4 recently) Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Green and Great Spotted Woodpeckers, 4 Tree Pipits, Pied Flycatcher, Wood, 2 Garden and lots of Willow Warblers, Curlew, Swift, Cuckoo, Blackcap (many), Stonechat, Chiffchaff, Oystercatcher, Linnet, Redpoll, Reed Bunting, Meadow Pipits galore, Trecreeper, Bullfinch, Skylark, Grey Wagtail, Spotted Flycatchers,Tufted Duck, Little ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper and many more. Hope Ste Astley saw the Tree Pipits!